Example sentences for: ratification

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

  • 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 NYT and WSJ lead with the Knesset's ratification of the peace memorandum finalized at Wye, Maryland last month.

  • 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?

  • After being informed of the intelligence agency's assessment, Majority Leader Trent Lott decided to rush the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to a ratification vote, in the hope of sinking it by arguing that CIA uncertainty makes the test ban unenforceable.

  • We have, happily, induction by intuition, the inference that goes beyond mere fact (one cannot avoid the suspicion, it is difficult to shake off the conviction) , and also, thanks be, attestation by clarification, the proof that is superior to mere evidence (even so, still, in any event) . Plainly, we are in the presence here of higher truths: look at ratification by approximation (for the most part, as it were, broadly speaking) ; witness the revelation of amplification (conceivably, it may even be, it would not be too much to say) .


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