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Thanks to Queen Noor, Jordan has not only signed the Ottawa treaty but is closer than ever to ratifying it."
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?
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.
Congress ratifying the trade agreement.