Sentence examples for was ratifying from inspiring English sources
verb
To give formal consent to; make officially valid.
So when May announced at the UN last week that she was ratifying the Paris agreement, perhaps what she meant was that she was going to reverse her government's suite of energy policies.
Last month, Thornberry declared the administration's potential nuclear deal was "ratifying Iran as a threshold nuclear power".
I tell you, the last time I was this excited about someone being late for the party but finally arriving, it was March of 1995, and Mississippi was ratifying the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
The Constitution was ratified.
The Micronesia trusteeship was ratified in Jul.
The second contract was ratified on May 11.
It was ratified by the cabinet.
That decision was ratified last month by Honduras's Congress.
This GSSP was ratified by the ICS in 1984.
The decision was ratified last week by Iraq's electoral commission.
The convention was ratified by 91 member nations.
