verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ratify a treaty (= make it official by signing it or accepting it )
▪
The Government cannot ratify the treaty without Parliament’s consent.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
agreement
▪
President Corazon Aquino had appealed to the Senate to ratify the agreement .
convention
▪
This urged states to sign and ratify the convention and to make domestic legislation and administrative procedures compatible with it.
▪
Enough countries ratified the Convention to bring it into force.
▪
But there has been pressure from the Department of the Environment to ratify the convention .
▪
The meeting was an attempt to ratify the 1997 Kyoto convention on reducing greenhouse gases.
country
▪
Their purpose is to encourage countries to ratify the Kyoto protocol on reducing carbon emissions.
▪
Signed by 161 countries and ratified by 68&038;.
▪
The parliaments of both countries were due to ratify the treaty by the end of February 1991.
▪
The Covenant is designed to guarantee civil and political rights to persons within each country that ratifies it.
▪
It will come into being once 60 countries ratify their leaders' decision to join.
▪
It came into force in March 1983 after two thirds of the signing countries had ratified it.
▪
Enough countries ratified the Convention to bring it into force.
▪
When Maastricht was agreed 11 months ago, all countries pledged to ratify it before the end of this year.
decision
▪
It will come into being once 60 countries ratify their leaders' decision to join.
▪
Congress voted on Nov. 26 by 78 votes to 24 to ratify the decision .
▪
The councillors ratified the decision taken earlier by the education committee.
▪
And that will cause uproar tonight when the general committee gather to ratify the decision .
government
▪
But the state's Labor government refused to ratify the new law for nine months.
▪
Mr Hurd said the amendment would have no effect and that the Government would ratify the treaty anyway.
▪
But Mr Hurd said that the amendment would have no effect and that the Government would ratify the treaty anyway.
maastricht
▪
This could, of course, occur even if the Member States failed to ratify the Maastricht Treaty.
▪
In a letter he told him not to interfere in Britain's moves to ratify the Maastricht Treaty.
▪
It does not ratify the Maastricht Treaty and any political discussion about whether it should or not is out of order.
protocol
▪
Their purpose is to encourage countries to ratify the Kyoto protocol on reducing carbon emissions.
▪
Of the total of fourteen states now party to the Convention, half have ratified the Protocol .
senate
▪
President Corazon Aquino had appealed to the Senate to ratify the agreement.
▪
The Senate ratified the treaty in 1854.
▪
The Senate must ratify his reappointment.
▪
Next week he will appeal to the Senate to ratify a global treaty to ban chemical weapons.
state
▪
This urged states to sign and ratify the convention and to make domestic legislation and administrative procedures compatible with it.
▪
Constitutional amendments go from Congress directly to state legislatures; 38 states must ratify them.
▪
It came into force for those states which had ratified it in 1953.
▪
Both houses must approve by two-thirds margins, and 38 state legislatures must ratify such fundamental changes.
▪
Both houses must pass an amendment by a two-thirds margin and three-fourths of the states then must ratify it.
▪
These debates lend credence to the view that the southern states would not have ratified the Constitution without the proslavery compromises.
treaty
▪
We ratified the treaty in 1951 but under our constitution this gives no right of action in our domestic courts.
▪
The Senate ratified the treaty in 1854.
▪
We hope that the republics will be willing to ratify the treaty and implement its terms.
▪
In a letter he told him not to interfere in Britain's moves to ratify the Maastricht Treaty .
▪
Next week he will appeal to the Senate to ratify a global treaty to ban chemical weapons.
▪
It does not ratify the Maastricht Treaty and any political discussion about whether it should or not is out of order.
▪
Any state attempting to join later would have to ratify the treaty first-usually a long process.
■ VERB
refuse
▪
But the state's Labor government refused to ratify the new law for nine months.
▪
If we refuse to ratify , some governments will use our refusal as an excuse to keep their chemical weapons.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
A 1961 treaty ratified by 125 nations outlawed the production of cocaine.
▪
Congress failed to ratify the treaty until two years later.
▪
The US Senate refused to ratify the agreement on weapons reduction.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Because his ennoblement could not be ratified until the Dragon Throne was formally occupied, Alexei was not permitted to vote.
▪
But the administration faces two high hurdles in efforts to get the treaty ratified.
▪
Kharin's three-and-a-half-year contract with Chelsea is expected to be ratified within the next week, when he receives a work permit.
▪
Massachusetts ratified by 187 against 168.
▪
The decision still has to be ratified by the Finance and Management Services Committee.
▪
We ratified the treaty in 1951 but under our constitution this gives no right of action in our domestic courts.