Example sentences for: ratification

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

  • The treaty itself remained open to ratification.

  • Beijing, however, believes that if Clinton were to spend political capital on pushing China's membership in the WTO, he could prevail--as he did on NAFTA and WTO ratification.

  • CWC opponents may muster the 34 votes needed to prevent a two-thirds ratification vote (thanks to the earnest but clueless Jesse Helms and two of the most rabidly reactionary institutions in politics today: the Wall Street Journal 's editorial page and a reptilian Cold War vestige called the Center for Security Policy).

  • And in practical terms, what's the point of even discussing a constitutional amendment--which requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate as well as ratification by the states--if you don't have a majority to pass a simple bill?

  • The Times reports that the U.S. hailed the ratification as an important step, but both papers stress that the Cabinet salted its approval with enough conditions requiring specific prior actions by Yasser Arafat to produce at the very least delay if not an outright breakdown in the peace process.


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