to accept an agreement
91legitimize — [[t]lɪʤɪ̱tɪmaɪz[/t]] legitimizes, legitimizing, legitimized VERB (The spellings legitimise in British English, and legitimatize in American English are also used.) To legitimize something, especially something bad, means to officially allow it,… …
92ratify — v.tr. ( ies, ied) confirm or accept (an agreement made in one s name) by formal consent, signature, etc. Derivatives: ratifiable adj. ratification n. ratifier n. Etymology: ME f. OF ratifier f. med.L ratificare (as RATE(1)) …
93Boxer Protocol — agreement made in 1901 between China and eleven Western nations in which China agreed to accept international supervision and to pay restitution for injuries sustained during the Boxer Rebellion …
94United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …
95international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
96HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …
97United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
98Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
99Nuclear program of Iran — See also: Iran and weapons of mass destruction Nuclear program of Iran …
100France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
