And we see it in democratic countries that choose not to ratify certain international conventions, or reinterpret conventions to which they have subscribed.
There is one less simple explanation: a reported disagreement within Israel's defence establishment over whether or not to ratify the new international convention against chemical weapons.
But now the Russian delegation is asking for further concessions, and threatening not to ratify the agreement unless the allowance for its forests is almost doubled.
Mr Singh has emerged as an unofficial convenor of opponents of the deal in the Indian Parliament, which, unlike America's legislature, does not have to ratify it.
It will be signed at a summit next month, but Mr Sarkozy will not be able to ratify it before the election.
While the text of the new collective bargaining agreement is still being drafted and NFLRA members will not begin voting to ratify it until Friday, the NFL did release several terms included in the new agreement.
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But in a full session of the assembly this week, they could not muster the votes to ratify the rule changes.
But it will not have much impact on emissions, and therefore on the speed of climate change, because it does not require developing countries to cut their emissions, and because America did not ratify it.
"But the real problem is that in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform, you're asking the state, you're asking officials of the state, like the people of the department of motor vehicles, to, in effect, ratify someone who is not here legally as someone who is going to be given a privilege, a document from the state, and, you know, it just didn't bear up under a lot of scrutiny, " she explained.
The guiding consideration for the Senate as it considers whether to ratify the CWC should not be wishful thinking about how wonderful the world would be if only we could rid it of chemical weapons.
Failure to ratify the treaty this year not only would mean losing our nuclear inspectors in Russia, but also it would undermine the international coalition pressuring Iran, put to risk the transit routes used to equip our troops in Afghanistan, and undo decades of American leadership and bipartisanship on nuclear security.
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But a failure to ratify would mean that Ireland could not qualify for future support from the euro-zone bail-out fund.
Of course Iran, while having signed LOST, has yet to ratify it, and therefore would not be bound by any of its terms even if we were to commit ourselves.
Changing the text is not possible, as that would force every other country to ratify the whole thing again.
This is something that unfortunately, the United States is not in a position to do because we have yet to ratify that convention and it's one of the reasons why we are interested and supportive of having that treaty be ratified by the U.S. Senate.
Presidents have relied on their fast-track Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) to negotiate pacts that Congress can ratify or reject but not amend.
In 1997, the Senate declared by a vote of 95 to 0 that it would ratify no treaty that did not include everyone, effectively killing Kyoto.
Obama may want the Senate to ratify the test-ban treaty but that has not happened yet and his moves on climate change, too, will require congressional compliance.
Ireland is the only EU state putting it to a national vote but only 12 of the 17 eurozone members need to ratify it, so a "No" would not block the treaty.
Only 12 countries are required to ratify it for it to become law - so that is not in doubt.
British officials like this idea (though their parliament would still have to ratify the changes), but the Germans think it does not provide enough powers to impose fiscal discipline.
Russia has explicitly said that it will not ratify the energy charter it signed in 1994, which would have required it to give third parties access to its gas pipelines.
Canada did not ratify the law-of-the-sea treaty until 2003, so has no need to submit its claims until 2013.
Even if the treaty were to come into force without the United States (which is doubtful, because other countries are waiting for the United States to ratify so that it will pay the costs of implementation), the American chemical industry would not be hurt because it doesn't rely on imports from countries likely to be treaty parties.
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