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Example sentences for "ratify"

Lexicographically close words:
ratification; ratifications; ratifie; ratified; ratifies; ratifying; rating; ratings; ratio; ratiocination
  1. He did, however, with easy good nature, assent to it, and the two brothers applied to the Emperor Charles to ratify the division by his imperial sanction.

  2. It was with no little difficulty that the emperor persuaded the diet to ratify these terms.

  3. He had crushed the Protestant league, vanquished the Protestant princes, subjected the pope to his will, arranged religious matters according to his views, and had now assembled a subservient council to ratify and confirm all he had done.

  4. Queen Elizabeth returned word through her embassador in Paris, whose name was Throckmorton, that she could not give her any such safe-conduct, because she had refused to ratify the treaty of Edinburgh.

  5. This treaty was brought to France for Mary to ratify it, but she declined.

  6. For some hours Napoleon refused to ratify this compact.

  7. The resignation was of course declined, in terms most flattering to Bonaparte; and the Directors prepared to ratify the treaty with Sardinia.

  8. Sforza did not ratify the treaty, because the purport of the document did not suit his wishes in some important particulars.

  9. The king, who had made considerable preparations for war, did not ratify the compact till January 26 of the following year.

  10. Congress saw the extent of the word passengers, and refused to ratify the convention; a new one was therefore formed, omitting that word.

  11. A treaty of alliance was made between the two nations; and a Roman embassy, empowered to ratify it, visited the Turkish court in the Altai mountains during the course of the next year (A.

  12. Upon these terms peace was concluded between Vahan and Nikhor, and it was only necessary that the Persian monarch should ratify the terms for them to become formally binding.

  13. The failure of Congress to ratify the conditions offered by its commissioner would have brought to ruin the commercial house of Roderigue Hortales et Cie.

  14. At the earliest moment our ministers shall ratify the act, and call on my nobles to do homage to him as my heir.

  15. On the plains of Avila the nation was summoned to ratify the act.

  16. Some of the great vassals of the king of the Huns, who were themselves in the rank of powerful princes, had been sent to ratify an alliance and society of arms with the emperor, or rather with the general of the West.

  17. When Congress met, the Senate refused to ratify the suspension.

  18. Mary's refusal to ratify the celebrated treaty of Edinburgh, had particularly galled the English Queen.

  19. To ratify the grant and make it legal, it was necessary to have the Great Seal also affixed to it.

  20. She then proceeded very forcibly to state, once more, her reasons for refusing to ratify the treaty.

  21. Article V of the main body of the Constitution provides that when nine States should ratify the Constitution, it should be established as the frame of government.

  22. These small States declared they would not ratify the Articles of Confederation until those States having large areas of western lands would agree to cede those lands to the Federal government.

  23. He believed they would not ratify it unless hurried into it by surprize.

  24. American Ministers must go abroad not instructed by the same Authority (as will be the case with other Ministers) which is to ratify their proceedings.

  25. The Legislatures have no power to ratify it.

  26. Nine States will fail to ratify the plan and confusion must ensue.

  27. He observed that some Legislatures were evidently unauthorized to ratify the system.

  28. As the Constitution stands, the States only which ratify can be bound.

  29. Trevor and Mansell, then at Valladolid[107] with Nottingham, who had gone there to ratify the peace recently concluded between the two countries.

  30. He also added that the British government would not ratify the convention, because they could not keep faith with rebels.

  31. Yet he was to be the one whose casting vote, by a substitute, was to ratify the great Declaration.

  32. In order to ratify this treaty, the two monarchs agreed to have a personal interview; and for that purpose suitable preparations were made at Pecquigni, near Amiens.

  33. He next affirms, that as it was hurtful to the prerogatives of the crown, which he had sworn to defend, he had only dissembled when he seemed to ratify it, but that he had never in his own breast given his assent to it.

  34. Illinois was the first State to ratify the amendment; and others promptly followed.

  35. His Majesty the King of Spain, Alfonso XII, whom God keep, do confirm and ratify the above act of pacification and capitulation, in all its parts.

  36. Other ambassadors who accompanied Zacharias were empowered to ratify the same.

  37. The terms were actually impossible of execution and the endeavor to make the treaty and ratify it proved fruitless.

  38. Russia refuses to ratify peace preliminaries signed by her ambassador at Paris on July 25th.

  39. Metternich, has gone to their headquarters, and I will ratify whatever he may sign.

  40. The affair of Staps, perhaps, made Napoleon anxious to hurry away from Schoenbrunn, for he set off before he had ratified the preliminaries of the peace, announcing that he would ratify them at Munich.

  41. The English Government refused to ratify this, because it stipulated that the troops should be prisoners of war.

  42. The First Consul, who was dissatisfied with the treaty, at first refused to ratify it.

  43. I beseech your Majesty to have the goodness to ratify his appointment to said office.

  44. One of his first acts was to propose to the baronage, at a great assembly in St. Paul's Cathedral, that the king should be asked to ratify and reissue the charter that his great-grandfather Henry I.

  45. It survived long enough to ratify the final conclusion of the peace negotiations which the Rockingham cabinet had begun.

  46. He also attempted to remove all trade restrictions between England and Ireland, but was foiled by the factious Irish parliament, which refused to ratify the terms which he offered.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ratify" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accede; accept; accord; accredit; adopt; affiliate; affirm; approve; assent; attest; authenticate; authorize; back; bolster; buttress; carry; certify; charter; condescend; confirm; consent; corroborate; countersign; declare; deign; document; embrace; empower; enable; enact; endorse; enfranchise; entitle; espouse; fortify; franchise; grant; indorse; initial; legalize; license; nod; pass; patent; permit; privilege; probate; prove; ratify; recognize; reinforce; sanctify; sanction; seal; second; sign; strengthen; strike; substantiate; support; sustain; underwrite; uphold; validate; verify; warrant