ratify
ratify.01 - to approve
RATIFY-V NOTES: Frames file for 'ratify' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ corpus. (from ratify.01-v predicate notes)Aliases:
ratify (v.)
ratification (n.)
ratification (n.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: approver, agent
ARG1-PPT: entity ratified
ARG2-GOL: beneficiary
ARG1-PPT: entity ratified
ARG2-GOL: beneficiary
ratify-v: transitive
By 1987 , then - Speaker Jim Wright was discussing arms control in Moscow with Mikhail Gorbachev and then attempting to direct the president , through an appropriations rider , to treat the Soviets as though
the SenateARG0
had ratifiedrel
SALT IIARG1
.ratify-v: all arguments
The broadcastersARG0
were , after allARGM-DIS
, documenting the game , ratifyingrel
its occurrenceARG1
for millions outside the StickARG2
.ratification-n
When writing the Constitution , the framers expected the Senate to handle important issues , particularly the
ratificationrel
of treatiesARG1
, while the Executive would attend to matters of lesser consequence .