Sentences with 'ratifying'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ratifying and other words derived from it.
• « Those who lost out under absolutism were the peasants: especially in Central and Eastern Europe, the freedoms the peasants had enjoyed before 1650 were increasingly eroded as the new absolutist monarchs reached agreements with their nobility ratifying the nobility's right to control the peasantry completely. »
• « The French Bourbon dynasty, the descendants of Henry IV, continued the practice of holding court at Versailles and only went to Paris when they had to intimidate the Parisian city government into ratifying royal laws. »
• « The draft Constitution was finalised in September 1787. The delegates decided that for the new national government to get underway, each state must first hold a special ratifying convention. When nine of the thirteen had approved the plan, the constitution would go into effect. »
• « Including every state ratifying convention in the country, a total of fewer than two thousand men voted on the adoption of the new plan of government. In the end, the Constitution won approval by a narrow margin. »