How to Use ratification in a Sentence

ratification

noun
  • Turnout for the strike vote was high but less than the contract ratification.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
  • The union members will review the details of the agreement and hold a ratification vote in the coming days, the union said.
    Detroit Free Press, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The ratification process has taken the four weeks since then.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 22 Aug. 2023
  • This bypassed the normal and legal method of ratification of law, in which the House first votes and passes a bill, and then the Senate takes a vote.
    Kate C. Lemay, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
  • The bill to end ratification will now be sent to Putin for final approval.
    Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The deal included a 19% pay raise over the life of the contract with 10% upon ratification.
    Arkansas Online, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The goal had been to draw up a document that could be adopted at the meeting and then sent to countries for ratification.
    Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 24 May 2024
  • The ratification process will get underway next week, and will include member meetings to go over the terms of the deal.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Eight freight rail unions have now approved the agreement, but all 12 must sign on for ratification.
    Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The agreement goes to the union’s full membership for a ratification vote.
    Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2022
  • There’s no deadline for final ratification of the amendment, which needs 10 more states to sign on.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
  • Congress voted in favor of adding the new language to the Constitution back in 1972 and sent it to the states for ratification.
    Rachel Janfaza, ELLE, 23 Mar. 2023
  • That ratification process will take a little more than three weeks.
    Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 25 July 2023
  • The contracts will need to be put to a ratification vote by workers at the various hotels.
    Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • That means writers can go back to work as of Wednesday even before the final ratification vote on the contract.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Details of the deal will go out to workers over the next week and a contract ratification vote should come in September, the company and union said.
    Kyle Arnold, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The national board approved the deal on Friday, with 86% of the weighted vote in favor, and sent it to members for ratification.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Each union rejecting ratification raises the odds that one of them could go on strike, which would be enough to shut down the four major US freight railroads.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 14 Nov. 2022
  • That would pave the way for a ratification vote by officers and final approval from the council.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2023
  • The Turkish parliament’s ratification of the accession protocol is one of the last steps in the process.
    Karl Ritter, Suzan Fraser and Lorne Cook, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
  • The deal now heads to union members for a ratification vote, which is a standard procedure in labor talks.
    Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The contract now goes out to union members for ratification.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 1 July 2024
  • The ratification vote is expected to take place this week.
    Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The group reached a tentative deal with the studios and will reveal the ratification results on Thursday.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 17 July 2024
  • The terms, which have not been disclosed in detail to the press or the other guilds, will be presented to the DGA board on Tuesday for approval and then to the membership for ratification.
    Lindsey Bahr, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2023
  • The union’s unanimous decision to send the contract to members for ratification was reached Sunday night and wrapped talks for a new three-year deal.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The Board and Council will then vote on whether to authorize a contract ratification vote by the membership.
    Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The process will now move to the legislatures of all 30 member states for final ratification, which could take several months, adds The New York Times.
    Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 29 June 2022
  • In a statement, the producers alliance said the ratification vote was not a surprise.
    Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The ratification vote is set to begin on Monday after an an informational meeting about the pact takes place for union members.
    Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024

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