The agreement therefore merely ratified what had already been perpetrated on the Turkish and Greek populations.

Without balanced job complexes, most workers would most likely end up merely ratifying the proposals of empowered workers, and would have little reason to attend meetings.

One faction believed that seven states could ratify the treaty; arguing that they were merely ratifying and not entering into a treaty.

Instead of devising fundamental justifications for their policies, do they merely ratify each other's instincts?

When the pronouncement was made about the canon, it merely ratified what the general sensitivity of the c 'hurch had already determined.

To the chiefs of big Mexican industry, whose capital is Monterrey, being legally authorized to do business in dollars would merely ratify well-established de facto practice.

Despite the talk about increasing the parliament's power, it essentially merely ratifies party decisions.

"The administration is merely ratifying less than what industry is already doing on its own, without challenge or incentive," he said.

The Commission is therefore merely ratifying an existing situation.

Plenary sessions were held once a month only, even at the height of the Famine, and merely ratified previous decisions of the two-man presidium.