How to Use ratify in a Sentence

ratify

verb

• A number of countries have refused to ratify the treaty.
• Whether the deal is ratified may not have much to do with AI.
  — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 17 July 2024
• But the Bill of Rights was ratified more than eight years after the Treaty of Paris was signed.
  — Rich Logis, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
• If ratified, the contract would bring on new wages, up to 12 weeks of parental leave and more.
  — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2023
• The union will vote to ratify the deal, likely next week.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
• Nurses will now vote on whether to ratify the contracts by the end of next week.
  — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2023
• And just to be able to finally ratify that treaty and be able to say, this is our home.
  — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2024
• The 14th Amendment was passed and ratified just after the Civil War.
  — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 11 May 2023
• Once that plan is ratified, the project will be put out to bid, and construction could begin by the end of next year.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
• The new contract was ratified last week, putting thousands of people back to work.
  — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
• How would Utah women’s lives change if the state ratified the Equal Rights Amendment?
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
• Once the board approves the deal, members will vote on ratifying it.
  — Reuters, CNN, 19 July 2024
• The strike will end when the studios and the union agree on a new contract, and the majority of union members vote to ratify that contract.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 July 2023
• The country is the sixth-highest greenhouse gas emitter in the world and is one of the only countries to not ratify the Paris Agreement.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 30 Jan. 2024
• If the Legislature does not ratify the rule, the agency would have to stop the rulemaking process.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024
• The vote to ratify the contract is set to be completed by next Wednesday evening.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• The amendment would then have to be ratified by three-fourths of state Legislatures.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
• In 2009, lawmakers ratified the U.N.’s two covenants on human rights, one of which calls for the abolition of the death penalty.
  — Yian Lee / Bloomberg, TIME, 20 Sep. 2024
• That strike was averted when a deal was struck and ratified earlier this month.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 24 July 2024
• The players and team governors still need to ratify the new CBA, so neither side has released the full text yet.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• The deal still needs to be approved by union leadership and ratified by rank-and-file screenwriters in the coming days.
  — Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• All the while Orban kept telling them that Hungary would ratify before Turkey, a pledge that’s now soured.
  — Zoltan Simon, Bloomberg.com, 24 Jan. 2024
• The deal is expected to be ratified next week, Clinton said.
  — Katie Rice, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
• Rhode Island refused to ratify the new system of government and held out from joining the union for a year.
  — Meir Soloveichik, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
• Staffers will also receive a $1,000 bonus if the contract is ratified.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
• The United States and Canada have not ratified the treaty, however.
  — Anastasia Moloney, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2024
• Despite the United States’ refusal to ratify the treaty, 192 nations were party to its terms.
  — David Carlin, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
• Full details of the deal, reached after years of debate and days of marathon talks, have not yet been released, and the plan must still be formally ratified.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
• Officials expect the unions to ratify the agreement by next week.
  — Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2022
• It is expected to take several weeks for union members to ratify the contract.
  — CBS News, 19 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024