Sentence examples for until ratification from inspiring English sources

Wednesday, until ratification voting was finished.

A similar concern haunted proponents of the income tax until ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1913.

Freed blacks were not guaranteed the same passport privileges as those of whites until ratification of the 14th amendment in 1868, and often not even then.

President Mohamed Morsi cited the pending ruling on Nov. 22 when he put his own edicts above judicial review until ratification of the constitution, saying that he intended to protect the assembly until it finished its work.

Afraid that the courts might dissolve the constitutional assembly or even remove his powers, Mr. Morsi badly overreached with a decree putting himself above the courts until ratification of a new charter.

CAIRO — Egyptian judges rebelled Saturday against an edict by President Mohamed Morsi exempting his decrees from judicial review until ratification of a constitution, denouncing it as a bid for unchecked power and calling for a judges' strike.

Apart from such an express provision, the instrument does not become formally binding until ratifications have been exchanged.

Women would not receive that right until the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.

The Justice Ministry granted military officers the right to arrest civilians for trial in military courts until the ratification of a new constitution.

In contrast, members of the Senate were appointed by the states until the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment (1913), which mandated the direct election of senators.

But the text of the original decree had exempted all presidential edicts from judicial review until the ratification of a constitution, not just those edicts related to the assembly or justified as "acts of sovereignty".