Sentence examples for which ratification from inspiring English sources
Mandatory referendums also very often originate from governmental authorities entitled to bring forward proposals for which ratification by a referendum vote is required, particularly in the case of constitutional amendments or matters of state sovereignty, territory, or identity.
The underlying forces at work to support national prohibition included antipathy to the growth of cities (the presumed scene of most drinking), evangelical Protestant middle-class anti-alien and anti-Roman Catholic sentiment, and rural domination of the state legislatures, without which ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment would have been impossible.
Besides, the Union has only just expanded to include ten new members and has agreed an ambitious new constitution, which awaits ratification.
They have no power actually to alter the treaties without going through the whole process which involves ratification by each member state in accordance with its constitutional requirements.
A "no" vote would not scupper the treaty, which needs ratification from only 12 of the area's 17 countries to come into force, but would mean that Ireland is not eligible for further bail-outs.
Steve Goose, program director of the arms division at Human Rights Watch in Washington, which supports ratification of the treaty, said the report mainly showed that the Pentagon should re-evaluate the military's need for antipersonnel land mines.
Anti-Federalists had more complaints, too, which is why ratification — a process wonderfully recounted by Pauline Maier in "Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788" — was touch and go.
Ratification, which requires a majority of those voting among its 120,000 members, is not assured.
The Bush plan might "destabilize" support for the Kyoto pact, which is awaiting ratification.
These fears were not in evidence at yesterday's chummy news conference announcing the agreement, which needs final ratification.
The fourth supermajority provision is for treaty ratification, which Article II, Section 2 requires that "two thirds of the Senators present concur".
