Sentence examples for secure ratification from inspiring English sources

At the time, not everyone bought the argument that it was necessary to disenfranchise women in order to secure ratification.

It declares the Obama administration's intent to secure ratification of the treaty banning all nuclear testing and states that the United States will not develop new nuclear weapons.

Vigorous campaigns were then waged to secure ratification of the amendment by two-thirds of the state legislatures, and on August 18 , 1920 Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment.

Mr Brunson raises the problem of the three rebel cabinet ministers who threatened resignation if Mr Major agreed to the social chapter in order to secure ratification of the Maastricht Treaty.

There is the case to be made for pushing the limits up to the point where leadership and public education can secure ratification of a treaty that goes somewhat farther than what the legislation embodies, but that's a political judgment call.

It says that it opposes the methods that are being used to secure ratification.

The Eighteenth Amendment is the only amendment to have secured ratification and later been repealed.

Paterson was instrumental in securing ratification of the final document in New Jersey and was elected one of the state's first two U.S. senators.

He was raised to the chancellorship after the resignation of Scheidemann (June 1919) and was charged with the thankless task of securing ratification of what the Germans called "the peace of unjustice"—the Treaty of Versailles.

An authoritative restatement of arguments in favor of the federal Constitution, and a rebuttal of counterarguments, the "Address" played a role in securing ratification in New York despite the presence of a powerful Anti-Federalist opposition.

Anderson was influential in securing ratification of the Prohibition Amendment by the New York State Legislature in 1919 and in the passage of a New York State dry enforcement law.