Che Guevara

I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two 'I's' struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.

Argentinian Revolutionary

Kerry James Marshall

For black people, everything we do has to be ratified and endorsed by a power structure that is white. And that reinforces a kind of racial hierarchy where whiteness is the privileged position to be in, and ethnicity is problematic.

American Artist

Noam Chomsky

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

American Activist

Marco Rubio

In so many ways, a lot of the drive I've had to do certain things has been because of this sense that I have both the opportunity and in some sense the obligation to ratify that my parents' life had purpose.

American Politician

James Madison

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

American President

Andrew Card

Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.

Mark Meadows

Once the USMCA is sent to Congress, the House has a responsibility to step up and swiftly ratify the agreement.

Jose Manuel Barroso

The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.

Portuguese Politician

David Mamet

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.

American Dramatist

Henry Grunwald

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

Austrian Editor

Ratify means a formal and official way of giving approval, it's not casual.

Official Approval

Once ratified, the decision or law becomes binding and enforceable.

Binding Decision

Ratification is often the last step in a law-making or decision process.

Process Completion

Ratification in the legal domain involves an authority figure or body.

Legal Authority

Ratify in a legal context indicates giving formal consent to a rule or agreement.

Formal Consent

Ratification in legal terms also means to validate or officially confirm an action.

Validation

In a trade union setting, ratification often refers to members voting to approve a deal.

Union Context

Ratify in a union setting means an agreement has the majority's support after voting.

Majority Approval

Ratification signifies a collective agreement among members, not an individual decision.

Collective Agreement

 And even more importantly, that concession speech has a technical function in that it kind of allows all the other stuff that our constitution requires after the voting, and there are a bunch of steps like, you've got the electoral college that has got to meet, you've got Congress who's got to ratify this thing, you've got an inauguration to be had,

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 their real motives were mostly practical. Changing the constitution when it had already been ratified by some states could complicate the entire process. More importantly, Madison felt that people's rights were already guaranteed through the democratic process, while adding extra provisions risked misinterpretation.

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 girls were back in school women shed their burqas and cities and returned to the workplace some even joined newly created police and military units over the next year the afghan government ratified a new constitution and held a democratic election for president foreign aid increased access to

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 and the members of our parliament don't want to change this, and this is why they can't sign the U.N. convention against foreign bribery -- one of they very, very few countries which is preaching honesty and good governance everywhere in the world, but not able to ratify the convention,

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 that are being ratified by nations around the world. I think we can be very hopeful that those agreements, which are bottom-up agreements, where nations have said what they think they can do, are genuine and forthcoming for the vast majority of the parties. The unfortunate thing

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 bribery one of the very very few countries which is preaching honesty and good governance everywhere in the world not able to ratify a convention which we managed to get on the books this about 160 countries all over the world I see my time is ticking

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 These electors then voted for president. All the states had to do was get their votes in on time. But there were glitches. Only 10 of the 13 states voted. Rhode Island and North Carolina hadn't ratified the constitution and couldn't vote.

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 or a request from two-thirds of state legislatures to call a national convention, and that's just the first step. To actually change the Constitution, the amendment must be ratified by three-quarters of all states.

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 advanced photovoltaics, efficiency and conservation. You've seen this slide before, but there's a change. The only two countries that didn't ratify

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 The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution -- also known as the Bill of Rights -- were ratified or passed over 200 years ago.