0 present participle of ratify
1 (especially of governments or organizations) to make an agreement official:
Non-governmental participation was limited to ratifying decisions taken by the executive.
First, by signing and ratifying international conventions, individual nations agree to be bound by internationally created norms and international law becomes incorporated into domestic law.
The same causes made it indispensable to give to the senators, as representatives of states, the power of making, or ratifying, treaties.
Over enthusiasm in ratifying so many conventions is perhaps attributable to these external pressures.
This, in fact, is probably the first option children learn for ratifying what the preceding speaker said.
Tsitsipis emphasizes that fluent speakers are "complicit," accepting and ratifying such slim texts even when they are subversive of community solidarity and traditional authority.
To repeat, it would therefore be unthinkable for us not to be among the first 65 ratifying signatories.
It is desperately sad that we are ratifying another treaty to hand over more power.
