Sentence examples for unratified from inspiring English sources

This set the stage for future Iraqi claims on Kuwaiti territory, particularly on the islands of Būbiyān and Warbah, which had originally been part of the Ottoman province of Al-Baṣrah but had been ceded to Kuwait in the unratified convention of 1913.

The proposed act of union divided the three Rigsraads, but according to modern scholarly opinion the document embodying the terms of the union never got beyond the stage of an unratified draft.

In his circular of Jan . 11 , 1899Count Muravyov proposed specific topics for consideration: (1) a limitation on the expansion of armed forces and a reduction in the deployment of new armaments, (2) the application of the principles of the Geneva Convention of 1864 to naval warfare, and (3) a revision of the unratified Brussels Declaration of 1874 regarding the laws and customs of land warfare.

The amendment itself permits seven years to elapse before it dies, if unratified".

In November 1980, shortly after the presidential election in which Reagan defeated Carter, Mr. Scranton led a private American delegation to the Soviet Union to informally discuss issues between Washington and Moscow, including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and questions over an unratified strategic arms treaty.

The Additional Protocol of the International Atomic Energy Agency for strengthened safeguards inspections remains unratified by a large number of states, including Iran.

While such subterfuges allow presidents to ignore selected parts of unratified agreements, the Obama administration's objective is precisely the opposite.

I'd been talking a lot to our friend Trevino Brings Plenty, who is Native American (about 40,000 Native Americans live in Portland), and kept thinking about how this beautiful spot had been the legal home of the Alsea tribe until an unratified treaty created the Coast Range Reservation in the 1850s.

In June Lord Mandelson scared off some wavering rebels by warning that an early election might allow a Cameron government to call an early autumn referendum on the as yet unratified Lisbon treaty.

President Bush, who has long opposed the still-unratified Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, has resolved to let it languish permanently in the Senate, administration officials said.

Among his achievements were tighter air pollution controls, new protections for wilderness areas, national forests and national parks, and the negotiation of a still-unratified global warming treaty.