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- adjective Not
ratified
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- adjective lacking legal authority
Etymologies
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Examples
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It may remain unratified indefinitely, but that’s not the same thing.
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There are many unratified treaties pending before the Senate.
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While several of the powers that would make up the Typhon Pact had begun discussing an alliance more than a year ago, it had only been within the last half-year that a general, albeit still unfinalized and still unratified, agreement had been reached among five of them; the sixth, the Tzenkethi Coalition, had only recently decided to join.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Based upon an unratified draft of the group's preamble and their emphasis on staging "teach-ins," not much.
Mark Cassello: Occupy Chicago Regroups After Recent Success Mark Cassello 2011
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While several of the powers that would make up the Typhon Pact had begun discussing an alliance more than a year ago, it had only been within the last half-year that a general, albeit still unfinalized and still unratified, agreement had been reached among five of them; the sixth, the Tzenkethi Coalition, had only recently decided to join.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Under the Vienna Convention (also unratified, but recognized as codifying interpretive principles of customary international law), states that have signed a treaty are not to act so as to undermine it until it has been ratified or rejected by the ratifying body (i.e. unsigning is not contemplated).
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While several of the powers that would make up the Typhon Pact had begun discussing an alliance more than a year ago, it had only been within the last half-year that a general, albeit still unfinalized and still unratified, agreement had been reached among five of them; the sixth, the Tzenkethi Coalition, had only recently decided to join.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Under the Vienna Convention (also unratified, but recognized as codifying interpretive principles of customary international law), states that have signed a treaty are not to act so as to undermine it until it has been ratified or rejected by the ratifying body (i.e. unsigning is not contemplated).
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There are many unratified treaties pending before the Senate.
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While several of the powers that would make up the Typhon Pact had begun discussing an alliance more than a year ago, it had only been within the last half-year that a general, albeit still unfinalized and still unratified, agreement had been reached among five of them; the sixth, the Tzenkethi Coalition, had only recently decided to join.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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