Ratify in a sentence as a verb

Signing a treaty is not the same as ratifying it.

Countries fail to ratify treaties all the time.

If the laws get changed to ratify the status quo, that's not antidemocratic.

But surely after it goes to the senate it will be either a ratify or no-ratify on the agreement.

By the time the Senate is given a treaty to ratify, the language is more or less final and there is no time to build up opposition.

Where public sentiment changes broadly enough that there is a clear consensus, it should be easy to ratify the Constitution to get us where we need to be.

President Barack Obama has described the failure to ratify the Convention as 'embarrassing' and has promised to review this.

I don't dare to hope that we'd actually manage to totally derail yet another of these bills, but my spirits would be bolstered if at least one leading European country failed to ratify it.

We can ratify, amend, and ****, even rewrite the Constution, using Constitutionally prescribed measures.

What makes them more essential to the process than the legislature that has to ratify the treaty?In the end, it is the legislature that has to determine whether this treaty serves the interests of the public, if it serves them enough, and if enough has been done to defend the interests of the public during those negotiations.

Ratify definitions

verb

approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation; "All parties ratified the peace treaty"; "Have you signed your contract yet?"

See also: sign