Example sentences for: ratify

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

  • "This agreement represents unilateral economic disarmament," one lobbyist tells the WP . And all the papers agree that the plan's prospects in the Senate, which must ratify it for the U.S. to become bound to it, are at best iffy.

  • "It accuses the US of refusing to recognise the primacy of international law, reserving the right to use the death penalty against juveniles and of being the only country, apart from Somalia, to have failed to ratify the UN convention on the rights of the child," the paper said.

  • Senate's refusal to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, but the Daily Telegraph of London was a rare dissenter.

  • But the national character of the settlement--particularly the protection from liability--meant that Congress had to ratify it.

  • Though the CWC limits the chemicals they can legally produce, it also imposes stiff penalties against countries that fail to ratify the ban, to encourage nonparticipants to sign up.


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