Verb (used with object), : to ratify a constitutional amendment.    From Dictionary.com. 

Britain ratified its death by signing the bilateral navy treaty with Germany last June.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germany Prepares for Conquest] Reference

The Bundestag ratified the treaty on May 11, 1973.    From Wordnik.com.  [1972, June] Reference

The West German Bundestag ratified the Schuman Plan by a vote of 232 to 143.    From Wordnik.com.  [1952, Jan. 11] Reference

So if these rules are ratified, which is by no means certain, schoolchildren will have to learn the names of 12 planets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phil Plait: Pluto to Officially Become a Planet-- and Now we have 12!] Reference

Reinstatement of that ability is dependent on the overall tax deal being ratified, which is likely, but not a certainty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zacks Earnings Preview: Federal Express, Oracle, Discover, Best Buy and Carnival Cruise Lines - Yahoo! Finance] Reference

Within four years of this time a treaty was negotiated and ratified, which is altogether the most inexplicable in our diplomatic history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference

But the treaty will need 67 votes on the floor (read: at least 8 Republicans) to be ratified, which is no easy task in this divided Senate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don Kraus: New START Bipartisan Victory in Foreign Relations Committee] Reference

Canada hasn't yet "ratified" the WIPO Copyright Treaty, to which it is a signatory member.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Fun To Play With The DMCA] Reference

Sixth, since the Iraqi "status of forces agreement" with the United States will not be "ratified" by the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph A. Palermo: U.S. Troops To Stay in Iraq Until 2012?] Reference

SCIENCE ISNT 'ratified' by bodies; gravity exists regardless of if a scientific body ratifies it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discover Blogs] Reference

Frakt proceeded to explain, "Crawford 'ratified' her referral decision and confirmed that she wanted the case to go forward.".    From Wordnik.com.  [AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09] Reference

"ratified" last April, has dropped all mention of the word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogbot - forsiden] Reference

My new target is to have a constitution ratified by every Libyan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Word: Saif al-Islam al-Qadhafi] Reference

And it is now waiting to be ratified by our National People's Congress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jiang Speaks Out] Reference

More than 140 nations ratified the agreement, which went into effect in 2005.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earth Terms] Reference

His dearest hope still is to see the Union's new Constitution ratified in Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Silvio Slips Up] Reference

They are the law of the land, signed by the president and ratified by Congress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price Of Arrogance] Reference

But the United States is the only Arctic nation that hasn't ratified the treaty.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘A Whole New World’] Reference

The clock on incumbents would not start running until the amendment is ratified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goodbye Welfare State] Reference

Certainly, a 1983 plebiscite ratified the constitution, but was it a real choice?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting the Veil] Reference

Then last week two thirds of the "moderate" new Majlis ratified the death sentence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mullahs Vs. Modernization] Reference

The fall of the wall did not create this brave new world; it sped it up and ratified it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wall and the End of History] Reference

President Barack Obama or the Senate Democrats it is unlikely to be ratified any time soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth About Plan Colombia] Reference

Yet a few days after the agreement was ratified, Salinas showed that it was business as usual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reform And The Revolution] Reference

Before it was ratified in 1804, presidential nominees did not have the nuisance of running mates.    From Wordnik.com.  [How No. 1s Pick No. 2s] Reference

Such unlikely exponents of advanced feminism as Iraq, Saudi Arabia and North Korea have ratified CEDAW.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Pose Of Rectitude] Reference

He wasn't wrong: the international community had in effect ratified the ethnic partition of his country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shipping Out] Reference

A few dissenting voices have pointed out that the Kyoto agreement hasn't been ratified in Europe either.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Can't Please Everyone] Reference

Gingrich has proposed a constitutional amendment, but it could take years to be ratified by the state legislatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goodbye Welfare State] Reference

The new Constitution that was narrowly ratified in 1993 was "reinterpreted" to allow the president to seek a third term.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price Of Success In Peru] Reference

At one point, an American reporter asked why, if the Europeans are so enamored of the Kyoto Treaty, they hadn't ratified it.    From Wordnik.com.  [West Wing Story: Two Days, Two Europes] Reference

His fondest hope was to see the new EU Constitution ratified when the Intergovernmental Conference meets in Rome in October.    From Wordnik.com.  [Silvio Slips Up] Reference

An amendment allowing the president to delete specific spending items, which Clinton supports, would be ratified more quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Decoding The Contract] Reference

On August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment, called the Anthony Amendment, was ratified by one vote in the Tennessee legislature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jordan Gospel] Reference

"Even if we ratified the CRC, it's not clear whether it would apply to the individual states," Stimson of the Heritage Foundation says.    From Wordnik.com.  [18 And a Life To Go] Reference