Example sentences for: ratification

How can you use “ratification” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • By 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment found the necessary three-fourths vote for ratification, and the income tax became a basic tool of modern state finance.

  • He argued that the Senate's 1992 ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights prohibits capital punishment for crimes committed before age 18.

  • The Los Angeles Times and USA Today lead with President Clinton's call for ratification of a comprehensive nuclear test ban.

  • The Clinton administration's embrace of the global-warming treaty was Issue 2. The treaty, which Clinton won't submit to the Senate for ratification any time soon, was pronounced DOA (Pat Buchanan, The McLaughlin Group ) and a political liability to both Clinton and Gore--especially presidential candidate Gore--because it is opposed by business and labor.

  • The Chemical Weapons Convention, signed by roughly the entire civilized world, awaits Senate ratification and is bottled up in Helms' committee.


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