Sample Sentences for
ratify
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    The 1929 Geneva Convention, which Japan had signed but never ratified, permitted detaining powers to use POWs for labor, with restrictions.  (source)
    ratified = formally approved (as if the U.S. president signed a treaty that was not approved by Congress)
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    I went through every major screening test on both my heads—all the tests I had to go through under Government medical officers before my nomination for presidency could be properly ratified.  (source)
    ratified = approved
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    It had come to be accepted that the pigs, who were manifestly cleverer than the other animals, should decide all questions of farm policy, though their decisions had to be ratified by a majority vote.  (source)
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    I overheard no further distinguishable talk, but, on looking round again, I perceived two such radiant countenances bent over the page of the accepted book, that I did not doubt the treaty had been ratified on both sides; and the enemies were, thenceforth, sworn allies.  (source)
    ratified = formally approved (accepted)
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    What occurs under the public gaze with so much pomp and ceremony is often the conclusion, or mere ratification, of what has taken place over weeks or months within the walls of such houses.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    I require an order which would ratify beforehand all that I should think proper to do for the greatest good of France.  (source)
    ratify = formally approve
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    Commend the murderous chalices! Bestow them, ye who are now made parties to this indissoluble league. Ha! Starbuck! but the deed is done! Yon ratifying sun now waits to sit upon it. Drink, ye harpooneers! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow--Death to Moby Dick!  (source)
    ratifying = approving
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    If, however, the Emperor of Russia ratifies that convention, I will ratify it; but it is only a trick.  (source)
    ratifies = formally approves
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    The rabble call him lord; And, as the world were now but to begin, Antiquity forgot, custom not known, The ratifiers and props of every word, They cry 'Choose we!†  (source)
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    That is because they are in the ratified version.  (source)
    ratified = approved
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    With the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in December, the long period of agitation for the abolition of slavery came to an end.†  (source)
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    If, however, the Emperor of Russia ratifies that convention, I will ratify it; but it is only a trick.  (source)
    ratify = approve
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    So much that, by 1795, it is even suggested that Tristero has staged the entire French Revolution, just for an excuse to issue the Proclamation of 9th Frimaire, An III, ratifying the end of the Thurn and Taxis postal monopoly in France and the Lowlands.†  (source)
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