Sentence examples for wanted to ratify from inspiring English sources

Republicans said they wanted to ratify Mr. Bush's slate before Dec. 12.

It's clear that the major emitters wanted to ratify Paris in early 2017 at the latest, a step which not only locks in the US but also accelerates all of the processes embodied in the bottom up Paris agreement - a critically important factor in maximizing the odds that the next round of global commitments, due in 2019, are as ambitious as possible.

The environment ministry wants to ratify Kyoto as quickly as possible.

Germany wants to ratify Lisbon before Ireland's second referendum on October 2nd.

Newly elected hard-line Republicans like Rand Paul of Kentucky might not want to ratify it; many conservatives believe the treaty could limit American antimissile deployments.

Mr Solís is a critic of some aspects of a free-trade deal with America that Mr Arias wants to ratify.Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, expelled the United States' naval attaché in Caracas for spying, prompting the Bush administration to send home the number two at the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC.

Even after prohibition was shown to be a dismal and catastrophic failure, and "wet" politicians were elected in the early 1930s, state legislatures didn't want to ratify the amendment repealing prohibition for fear of the Anti-Saloon League.

"As a public authority, we want to ratify our commitment by supporting this initiative that, added to other public policies, aims at ensuring education, good health and social inclusion for young people," said Mayor of São Paulo Gilberto Kassab.

Europe wants China to ratify the United Nations International Covenantt on Civil and Political Rights.

Mr Bush also wants Congress to ratify a free-trade deal with Colombia.

But Russia first wants others to ratify amendments to CFE, agreed in 1999, as Russia has done.