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Example sentences for: ratifying

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

Congress ratifying the trade agreement.
Thanks to Queen Noor, Jordan has not only signed the Ottawa treaty but is closer than ever to ratifying it."
But David Ignatius tells Washington Post readers that the court "is only ratifying a power shift that has already taken place" from the bloated and hamstrung federal system to the more effective state level.
Is aggression the same as aggressiveness , or, on the other side of the spectrum, is passivity the same as passiveness ? The first is more the state, the second more the behaviour--but how about scarcity and scarceness ? One runs into the same problem with the - ing gerund versus the - ation nouns: which sounds better, implementing or implementation, ratifying or ratification?