(of a treaty, contract, or agreement) not signed or given formal consent, so not officially valid.
the protocols remained unratified
unratified agreements with tribal leaders
Example sentencesExamples
- Many of the 240 environmental treaties enacted over the past 80 years remain unratified and unenforced.
- The Union army code announced in 1863 strongly influenced the unratified Declaration of Brussels (1874).
- WPA is a subset of the as yet unratified 802.11i security standard.
- There are now eight unratified ILO occupational and health conventions.
- As it is unratified, however, by any major spacefaring powers and unsigned by most of them, it is of no direct relevance to current space activities.
- 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.
- While such subterfuges allow presidents to ignore selected parts of unratified agreements, the administration's objective is precisely the opposite.
- 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.
- 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.