The Roman senate refuses to send Mithridates a formal ratification of the treaty.

Seeing the situation as I did, no man would have been willing to imperil immediate ratification by resigning as Commissioner on the ground that he was opposed to the President's policies.

A unanimous ratification was necessary, and it was not until March 1781, that unanimity was secured and the articles adopted.

This is far the most important of the numerous ratifications of the Great Charter.

It is therefore submitted to your determination whether you will advise and consent to their respective ratifications.

The new convention has, he informs us, been recently submitted by the President of that Republic to its Congress under circumstances which promise a speedy ratification, a result which I can not allow myself to doubt.

Thereafter the President had practically no choice save to conclude matters subject to subsequent ratification by the Senate.

The noble girl had achieved, as by a rapture of motion, the capital end of clearing out a free space around her sovereign, giving him the power to move his arms with effect; and, secondly, the inappreciable end of winning for that sovereign what seemed to all France the heavenly ratification of his rights, by crowning him with the ancient solemnities.