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Meaning ratify meaning

What does ratify mean?

ratify

— verb (= sign) approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation All parties ratified the peace treaty Have you signed your contract yet?

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confirm approve sanction validate sign corroborate verify endorse certify affirm strengthen seal ratification pass authorize approval warrant vouch validation valetudinarian underpin transistorize transistorise toughen support substantiate reinforce reconfirm ratify a treaty ratified play ordain officialise make official make certain make legalize intensify fulfill fortify establish enter into endose effect edify document countersign consolidate conclude close

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Social behavior Law

Pass laws
Language and thought Think Opinion

Agree with someone

Conjugation ratify conjugation

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ratify · verb

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If ratify his confession the crime, the more certain it has to return Ireland to be judged.
Perhaps a symbolic ceremony to ratify our bond with Egypt.
I take it there is no doubt that the Earth government will ratify your decision, in view of the special circumstances?
The purpose of this meeting is to ratify. the motion passed by our shareholders in New York.
We have to ratify this deal as soon as possible.
For the present, I may not ratify any agreements in the name of our house until I am confirmed in office or a new appointment is made.
I now happily ratify your union as husband and wife.
Because you, the delegates from the 50 member worlds, will ratify our commonwealth charter, unifying us all, and elect our first triumvir.
Some delegates are even looking for an excuse not to ratify the charter, an excuse to get out.
We'll ratify the charter another day. Tyr.
We think that America is better off if we live in a world primarily populated with free countries, who make their own who have to appeal to their own people for the source of their power and to ratify their decisions.
I can ratify what Mr. Argall said.
The Senate will ratify Caesar's election as your co-consul for the coming year.
You cannot ratify this proposal until all members of this council have been heard from!
In a few days an Assyrian envoy will arrive to ratify the treaty of the priests.
We must ratify the Kyoto protocol.
They'd need to ratify this.
Yeah. All 'cause those bastards didn't ratify Kyoto.
Secondly, the required number of States in order to ratify the amendment to allow the income tax was never met, and this has even been cited in modern court cases.
I shall go straight to Paris to meet King Francis and ratify the new treaty between Your Majesties.
Even if I agreed to this, they would not ratify it.
Chancellor, if you and Mas Amedda would join me for a moment, we have some logistics to discuss in order to ratify the Senate's decision.
Without a president, the council can ratify nothing.
The new Senate will ratify the treaty and we don't care what condition his body is in.
The world is looking to the U.S. to ratify the treaty first.
We wait, it takes longer for other countries to ratify the closer we get to more unstable countries developing a nuclear threat.
The Senate will ratify your status, you get your triumph, stand for consul, and Pompey shall withdraw to Spain.
All 'cause those bastards didn't ratify kyoto.
Secondly, the required number of states in order to ratify the amendment to allow the income tax was never met, and this has even been cited in modern court cases.
Payments for the North Korean ones have been deposited. Once they ratify the law on Gallery Stimulation Act all illegal and stolen art kept in gallery will be legalised.
That ratified the existence of God Will have to ratify, right?
And in other news1 the European Payliament today passed legislation to remove trade tariffs on imported African rice with 582 members of the 736-seat body voting to ratify the measure.

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Periodic meetings between the appropriate committees of the US Congress and the European Parliament would also be of great importance, as ultimately both bodies will have to ratify any international treaties.
Were the US Senate to fail to ratify New START, the treaty's proponents argue that the US would lose predictability about Russia's nuclear activities, resulting in greater distrust and risk of miscalculation, making both sides less secure.
The absence of consecutive re-election at any level reinforces the party machines' power: they pick candidates, whom voters merely ratify at the polls.
The US Congress has yet to ratify a 2010 agreement providing China and other large emerging economies greater voting power in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Similarly, the US Congress should ratify the agreed changes to the governance of the IMF and the World Bank.
But the organization was weak and inefficient, largely owing to the United States' refusal to ratify its charter.
But the League's unanimity requirement effectively gave all members veto power, and the United States Senate's refusal to ratify its Covenant condemned the effort to a premature death.
And, lo and behold, France, which is scheduled to ratify the Constitution by a referendum on May 29, gives the impression of wanting to vote against it.
Unfortunately, this did not happen; it took Moscow 8 years to ratify START-2.
By excising from the draft Constitution the prospect of a welfare state run by judges, its framers will increase the chances that Britain and other doubters will, in the end, ratify the final product.
The EU must continue to insist that Russia ratify it, stipulating that Russia is already bound by its terms.
In contrast to the Czech Republic, there is clear agreement among political actors in Ireland about the need to ratify the Lisbon Treaty.
For example, protectionist Democrats in the US Congress have been able to insulate themselves from charges of opposing free trade if they scuttle Colombia's FTA, because they will most likely ratify the deals for Panama and Peru.
But the US refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
But it can no longer be taken for granted that other EU countries will automatically ratify the agreements that they reach between themselves as the lodestar for common policies.
How can the US expect China to follow rules on maritime delimitation in the East and South China Seas when it refuses to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea?
The recent decision by the US to sign the Arms Trade Treaty could be a good start - if only Congress could marshal the bipartisan support needed to ratify it.
What will most likely emerge is a eurozone pact that member states can sign and ratify at will, making it impossible to veto.
In 1993, Israel signed the international treaty banning chemical weapons, but did not ratify it because of the Arab states' refusal to follow suit as long as Israel maintained its nuclear advantage.
But before the amendment can enter into force, two-thirds of the 152 signatories to the original convention must ratify it.
To ratify a treaty requires the support of 67 of the Senate's 100 members, a nearly impossible hurdle.
In May, the leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan established the EaEU by signing a treaty that will enter into effect next year, assuming that all three countries' parliaments ratify it.
Yet the failure of eight countries to ratify the CTBT has prevented it from entering into force, and its contribution to global security has so far not been included on the NSS agenda.
NEW DELHI - As stage-managed elections ratify the consequences of three decades of military rule in Burma, the perspective from its neighbor India may help explain why there is continued international acceptance of the country's long-ruling junta.
Its members draft legislation, ratify international treaties, and sign off on the nation's annual budget.
Much negotiating blood has been spilled on the Treaty, and its rejection a second time by Irish voters would leave the Union unable to ratify and implement its provisions; this would inevitably lead to policy paralysis and institutional decay.
Ireland is the only country to put the Treaty to a referendum - all the other member states have chosen to ratify the Treaty by parliamentary means - and everything indicates that the result will be close.

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