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ADJECTIVE
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lacking legal authority
the unratified Equal Right Amendment
How To Use unratified In A Sentence
- There are now eight unratified ILO occupational and health conventions.
- Many of the 240 environmental treaties enacted over the past 80 years remain unratified and unenforced.
- It was only when Gov. Charles Robinson assured them that the "unratified and unproclaimed treaty was not a surrender but a triumph of diplomacy" that the mutineers were quelled.
- WPA is a subset of the as yet unratified 802.11i security standard.
- Legal writers often cite unratified treaties and reports of international agencies, such as those of the International Law Commission, as indi cating a trend toward general consent.
- The Union army code announced in 1863 strongly influenced the unratified Declaration of Brussels (1874).
- 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). The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Baltazar Garzón Indicted
- The treaty remained unratified by England till the 20th of September 1490, a year and a half after its ratification by the Spanish sovereigns at Medina.
- He supported the visionary Burlingame mission (1868) and the favourable terms found in the unratified Alcock convention (1869).
- Talks aimed at completing Kyoto – signed in 1997 but unratified - are scheduled to take place in Bonn in July.