How To Use Amenable In A Sentence

She might be more amenable to the idea if you explained how much money it would save.
Not for a minute had she believed fate would be so amenable as to arrange for him to fall madly in love with her. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
In July he was arguing that the British should use their influence to make the Poles more amenable to German demands.
Such conditions may be much more amenable to medical intervention than chronic conditions.
Now that Sandals has shown he'll flip flop, and since we already know he takes PAC money, that makes him appear much more likely to be "amenable" and owing to the NOW PAC. Printing: N.O.W. Blows it AGAIN on PA Senate Race

I think -" "I've a pretty little mare, pure Arab - bought her for breeding, but she's proving deuced picky, altogether unamenable. ON A WILD NIGHT
We begin by modifying the photo to create an image which is amenable to analysis: calculations of box dimension require a completely black and white image - no greyscale is allowed.
After some initial skirmishes, the company managed to entrench its rule, often through the authority of amenable local rulers.
These observations suggest that the mutated tyrosine phosphatases are tumor suppressor genes, regulating cellular pathways that may be amenable to therapeutic intervention.
For example, the vexed problem of alcohol abuse is argued by some to be amenable to outside intervention.
Once operational, the prototype under construction will be largely unamenable to "new ideas".
These are less amenable to being uncovered by using conventional interviews or survey methods.
The administration is amenable to a compromise.
Polls suggest that, in these increasingly health-obsessed and conformist times, public opinion might also now be amenable.
Birmingham may be more amenable to questioning and more accessible, at least during the first several months.
the president is amenable to the constitutional court
It would have been constructive and amenable to police public relations.
He's leaving some time next year and he will be replaced by a board which you can bet your bottom dollar will be more amenable to the government.
However, he said it appeared that the Prison Service was amenable to the issues raised.
Dental caries or tooth decay remains the single most common disease of childhood that is neither self-limiting nor amenable to short term medical treatment and yet is preventable.
She was always a very amenable child.
The cry to abolish intoxicating liquors increased within the amenable audience of hard-working farmers that were money conscious and trying to make it in a new world.
In other words, participant observers frequently buttress their observations with methods of data collection that allow them access to important areas that are not amenable to observation.
We are always amenable to trying out new songs or developing the programme to cater for more and more people.
If so, perhaps the cell surface would become more amenable to invading bacteria.
Research is needed to determine the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of alternative means for detecting conditions not amenable to physical examination because of a patient's body habitus.
But that case does not assist in deciding whether the private service provider is itself amenable to judicial review.
Such conditions may be much more amenable to medical intervention than chronic conditions.
Of stones the precious stone called carbuncle is least amenable to fire. Meteorology
He was trying to establish protocol, but she wasn't helping him by being so amenable.
The Jordanian leader seemed amenable to attending a conference.
Branches from fruit trees, dogwood, magnolia, and forsythia are especially amenable to being forced.
In general, the stones used for building are those that have sufficient strength and rigidity to support free-standing structures, and are amenable to the technical and organizational resources of the culture wishing to use them.
Recurrence of the primary tumor is rarely amenable to curative therapy.
New World Catharus thrushes are common nocturnal migrants amenable to biotelemetry, allowing us to measure physiological parameters during migratory flight in the wild.
The ladies have been very amenable so far, some of them spoke out at the meeting, stood up and identified themselves and asked questions.
All these tumors were basal benign meningiomas that were amenable to aggressive surgery due to their deep location and/or infiltrating growth pattern.
What is not to be regretted is the passing of the typewriter: it was the least amenable tool, requiring such a tedious process to make corrections that it encouraged writers to leave imperfect work unamended.
I argue that postcolonial logic is based on remediable difference, a difference that is amenable to improvement.
Therefore our interest in a publicly neutral chairperson is solely focused on creating the most amenable context for conducting the discussion.
One consequence of his death is that his personal opinions are now set in stone, unamenable to adaptation.
Provided that the barbarians remained amenable, any of these arrangements might suit the gentry better than direct imperial rule.
And, sometimes, the one obstruction to an amenable compromise is yet another rule-book that someone somewhere imagined would be helpful.
Its root assumptions, such as (to quote Dr. Mollinger) "that conscious and unconscious phenomena function under different modes" and "that psychic energy is distributed and transformed," are unamenable to empirical testing, yet they exert a controlling influence over the whole of metapsychology. High Tide
She might be more amenable to the idea if you explained how much money it would save.
So it's always wise to have an emergency recipe or two, using always-available ingredients, and amenable to be prepared with the minimum of fuss and time but to the maximum impressiveness possible.
What is not to be regretted is the passing of the typewriter: it was the least amenable tool, requiring such a tedious process to make corrections that it encouraged writers to leave imperfect work unamended.
My cat was a half-grown black-and-white female of undistinguished origin, guaranteed to be clean and amenable. ON CATS
It is always due to the underlying disease seborrhoea, and though it progresses steadily if neglected, is yet very amenable to treatment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
Not that that will worry the 26-year-old Swede, who, despite a speech disability, is as amenable and communicative as Webb is often abrasive.
Her artistic vision and energy prove as amenable to canvas as they do to clay.
They are not amenable to the type of process we employ in the domestic law enforcement arena.
But Allison was amenable and he didn't hear any of that whiny hurt in her voice. DOLL'S EYES
There were side effects even for the most amenable child: restlessness and insomnia, complete loss of appetite, diuresis, a tendency to “facilitate the flow of thought, generally at the expense of concentration,” and “a rather fictitious sense of fitness, self-confidence, and well-being.” Raymond Carver
The administration is amenable to a compromise.
Corporate culture is not something easily amenable to management control or manipulation.
an amenable hospitalization should not result in untimely death
The Jordanian leader seemed amenable to attending a conference.
It was clearly not reliable or repeatable and therefore not amenable to science and quickly discredited.
I confess that the fine art of cooking has been eluding me for quite some time, mainly on the basis that I am a lazy bint and Viv is generally amenable to cooking.
Beech is usually quite amenable to hard cutting back, as long as it gets plenty of light it will quickly sprout new shoots from the older wood.
People who believe that the media landscape is still amenable to a high degree of the kind of commercial support that would keep newspapers alive, look at the irreplaceability of newspapers and think, “We should expend any effort or resources we can to keep ourselves from having to replace them.” Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good » Nieman Journalism Lab
He has always been very amenable about having things done to him and he seems to know it is good for him.
People with diabetes may develop a particularly intractable form of disordered eating that is not readily amenable to treatment.
Since I find some form of panentheism most amenable to a worldview that is science friendly, I have not found the "omni" characteristics that coherent accept by pointing to the aseity of God. Courting the Theists
the tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment
I find him amenable to argument.
The issue is not the same as issues of consciousness, and fortunately is more amenable to clearly empirical considerations.
The hotel staff say that children are more amenable to new ideas and thus the game has more of an impact on them.
She was always a very amenable child.
Supt Hussey had always been co-operative, diligent and amenable in his work, she said.
The reality is that for obvious reasons the continuing gangland carnage is not readily amenable to ordinary law.
Barron Field wrote off Australia as ‘prose-dull’, and hoped that the wings of poesy - as he fatuously put it - would soon whirl him away to a more amenable clime. There was no question of Australians being permitted to create art of their own.
In general, the stones used for building are those that have sufficient strength and rigidity to support free-standing structures, and are amenable to the technical and organizational resources of the culture wishing to use them.
But post-traumatic stress disorder is especially amenable to misuse because so many of its criterial features are non-specific and subjective.
He made the party more amenable to Stalin, but lost a lot of popular support for the party as a result.
Carbohydrate replenishment Your body is most amenable to replenishing muscle glycogen in those first few hours after exercising.
Capitalism, therefore, is simply unamenable to any 'causal analysis'.
If it takes throwing nearly $1 trillion of "porky" (to quote Sen. Charles Schumer) stimulus spending to soften up a Democratic Congress and make it amenable to real entitlement reform, then fine. Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
We begin by modifying the photo to create an image which is amenable to analysis: calculations of box dimension require a completely black and white image - no greyscale is allowed.
On the upside, he has room to strut his nonpareil axe work, but the orchestra isn't so much an effective foil as an amenable supporter.
Pre-and postoperative ballistocardiograms were analyzed in approximately 100 patients with surgically amenable cardiovascular diseases.
Few people realize that a receding chin is quite easily amenable to corrective surgery.
Pools of all sizes tested gave positive signals indicating that all the pool sizes are amenable for the PCR assay.
Because of this, he says the Department is hoping to ensure a system amenable to academic researchers.
For both the abortion rights movement and anti-abortionists, members of Congress could prove amenable to restricting access to abortion.
I suspect the ancient Greeks set it up this way because it made astrology amenable to mathematical analysis and easier to construct ephemerides. Debunking Astrology: Mars Can't Influence You | Universe Today
Since one campaign (Hillary Clinton's) was amenable to redoes, even financing Michigan's, and the other campaign (Barack Obama's) opposed every feasible proposition, it is, in a strange way, true that the two sides weren't collectively ready for a deal. Michigan Congressman Floats Compromise For State's Delegates
We know that Ms. Lavenham is on the road to wisdom, however, when James tells us she is ‘already half aware that, while good looks and prettiness were benisons, beauty was a dangerous and less amenable gift.’
Lots more people would hear what you had to say if you'd just be amenable to how we'd like to read your sites.
This is why I am very unamenable to the notion that we should switch to a gold or any other commodity-based standard.
Carbohydrate replenishment Your body is most amenable to replenishing muscle glycogen in those first few hours after exercising.
If I'm -- but I'm not amenable to your reasons!" blustered the president, recovering a little from the first shock of terrified astoundment. The Price
While the conditional distributions are not computationally tractable for models of interest, they are amenable to approximation, as we describe below.
Our sample-preparation methods split the fatty acids from the alcohol components of glyceryl and steryl esters to form fatty-acid methyl esters, which are more amenable to analysis through gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
Hopefully some of the gene testing will help us identify patients with relapse that may be more amenable to retreatment.
Claude Simon's fiction at this time is particularly amenable to the criteria established by Ricardou.
Its visible fluorescence on leaking from damaged vessels makes it particularly useful in the diagnosis of retinal vascular disorders and monitoring of treatment of conditions amenable to laser photocoagulation.
And this may, in turn, make them far more amenable to compromise on postal voting and a new supreme court.
As a substantial, higher grade chalcocite-covellite zone near surface appears to be amenable to heap leaching, the 2010 drilling program will provide information to complete an independent, NI 43-101 compliant, Preliminary Economic Assessment ( "PEA") on a Solvent Extraction-Electrowinning ( "SX/EW") copper heap leaching operation within the next ten months, with a Preliminary Feasibility Study to follow, if warranted. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
They're more amenable to control within State borders than radio waves beamed out from transmission towers, relay stations and satellites.
Why can't I be 'amenable' and become a future duchess, and 'build up' the fortunes of a great family? God's Good Man
You should find him amenable to reasonable arguments.
Hablet had plenty of other daughters who were much more amenable than the dreaded Adrina. TREASON KEEP
For example, do individuals have a fixed capacity to regulate their emotions and attention or, as Buddhist tradition argues, their capacity for regulating these processes are greatly amenable to change suggesting similar degree of amenability of the behavioral and brain systems associated with these functions? Science at the Crossroads
It was hoped by employers that the new working class would be more docile and amenable than the old.
These observations suggest that the mutated tyrosine phosphatases are tumor suppressor genes, regulating cellular pathways that may be amenable to therapeutic intervention.
Beech is usually quite amenable to hard cutting back, as long as it gets plenty of light it will quickly sprout new shoots from the older wood.
These are less amenable to being uncovered by using conventional interviews or survey methods.
The manager was most amenable: nothing was too much trouble.
This basic fibre-spinning process is amenable to upscaling, which will involve increasing the spinning rate and going from single filament to multifilament spinning.
The latter tend to be less emotive and are more amenable to compromise.
He is proud that his wife is amenable to reason.
someone amenable to the instruction of others
This may be in part because it is a younger art, and one more amenable to modern sensibilities.
Such conditions may be amenable to medical intervention.
He was concerned with focusing quickly on the areas most amenable to cost reduction.
The manager was most amenable: nothing was too much trouble.
They are very amenable to this sort of treatment and the resulting new growth can be clipped into simple egg shapes or cubes, for example.
For me, the great appeal to doing an album was that the medium is amenable - you can actually do it yourself.
In other languages, reflexives are even less amenable to a two-participant interpretation.
With much of the preliminary work already done, Ministers were more amenable to finding the time to legislate.
The double bond positions of 11 conjugated trienes were unambiguously located through a simple derivatization method amenable to nanogram-scale analyses.
A more amenable strategy, I believe, is to accept that ‘believing is belonging’ and to be more inclusive rather than exclusive in our approach.
Elderly persons also may have minor depression or dysthymia, which might be amenable to treatment with medication or behavioral intervention.
They progress much further than Gang into late adolescence, a period more amenable to bittersweet comedy.
The amenable supporter who changes his allegiance with each new king.
Is it amenable to psychotherapy or gene therapy?
But there is another side to the substance abuse equation that may make it less amenable to interventions.
Claude Simon's fiction at this time is particularly amenable to the criteria established by Ricardou.
He has several ideas on making the city more amenable for pedal pushers.
She might be more amenable to the idea if you explained how much money it would save.
They were not as amenable to conversion to the official religions of the Roman Empire as the other pagan peoples the Roman has conquered.
External coaptation is not recommended for these injuries, as these areas are not amenable to bandaging.
It has the reputation of being amenable and friendly.
And what do we know about childhood determinants of adult disorder which might be amenable to preventive intervention?
In 1946 The British Medical Journal suggested that the "good-time girl unamenable to discipline and control" was a serious social problem.
I'm over-generalising perhaps, but nevertheless I do find it disturbing that so many MPs who 'entered Parliament to serve the public' or 'wanted to make things better for society' etc etc can, once de-throned, be so amenable to serving themselves and their egos through media exposure. From porn to Portillo | Mark Lawson
And there are several new independents whose backgrounds and antecedents will surely make them amenable to a little persuasion.
And he came at that time to provide the assistance that I was telling you about before, and at that time he was quite an amenable fellow.
Hunt down the most apposite or amenable folks and spread the inbox love to spare the pain! Community management under the bonnet: 23 things « Innovation Cloud
Is it amenable to psychotherapy or gene therapy?
· The US ranks last in the industrialized world on rates of "mortality amenable to health care" -- that is, the nation's care system often fails to manage those conditions that we know how to prevent or treat ( "amenable" conditions), resulting in premature death and suffering. Joe McCannon and Maureen Bisognano: The American Health Care System Is in Pieces -- But Some of the Pieces Are Doing Remarkably Well
But governments these days face anomie, impatience, generalised discontent, which are less amenable than they once were to the recompense of doctrinal zeal, for the simple reason that it does not exist.
But there is another side to the substance abuse equation that may make it less amenable to interventions.
Human lives suffer from miseries and deprivations of various kinds, some more amenable to alleviation than others.
They are also particularly amenable to the internal and external application of herbal medicated oils.
Not all jobs are amenable to flexible scheduling.
More and more problems are seen as amenable to medical intervention.
They'll find me pretty amenable if we're winning.
Although continued arrests will land an individual in jail for 30 days if they are determined unamenable to treatment, the new law makes serving time less likely.
And what do we know about childhood determinants of adult disorder which might be amenable to preventive intervention?
By stripping concrete objects of their less essential features, they become less involved and hence more amenable to mathematical treatment.
They are very amenable to this sort of treatment and the resulting new growth can be clipped into simple egg shapes or cubes, for example.
The manager was most amenable: nothing was too much trouble.
When anger turns into rage, it is no longer amenable to reason and can easily erupt into violence.
So although angry about the lost time and disliking Roos's superior tone, he was very amenable to Roos's suggestion of a meeting. FINAL RESORT
Luther, for example, frequently compared children to young trees, describing them as flexible and still amenable to being shaped.
I think -" "I've a pretty little mare, pure Arab - bought her for breeding, but she's proving deuced picky, altogether unamenable. ON A WILD NIGHT
It was hoped by employers that the new working class would be more docile and amenable than the old.
But Ambler's cynics are irredeemable, whereas Furst's are usually amenable to a little persuasion.
By stripping concrete objects of their less essential features, they become less involved and hence more amenable to mathematical treatment.
The issue is not the same as issues of consciousness, and fortunately is more amenable to clearly empirical considerations.
But others were both less recent and less amenable to resolution.
Hablet had plenty of other daughters who were much more amenable than the dreaded Adrina. TREASON KEEP
So although angry about the lost time and disliking Roos's superior tone, he was very amenable to Roos's suggestion of a meeting. FINAL RESORT
Young people are more amenable than older citizens to the idea of immigration.
As a group, private-sector actors would seem more amenable to moral suasion than are either state leaders or guerillas.
Certain industrial wastes not amenable to any presently known form of treatment, such as tannery discharges at Petersburg, West The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior
One cabinet minister even suggested having Israel appoint "amenable" Palestinian governors in each West Bank town, a program that failed miserably in the 1970s. The Bad Old Days Are Back
Because of that, it isn't actually amenable to quotation.
Moreover, "gelded" youth are much more amenable to the Hell-fire and damnation sermons of Evangelical preachers, with their otherworldly cult of pain and suffering. Jack Bauer, Wilhelm Reich and Confronting Fascism
Visibly thrilled over his visit, Sreejaya says that contrary to apprehension that he would be cold and remote, the Prince came across as a very amenable and caring person.
It was characterised primarily by the fact of extension: it occupied space and was therefore amenable to measurement.
On that point my mind is unamenable to persuasion.
The latter tend to be less emotive and are more amenable to compromise.
Visibly thrilled over his visit, he says that contrary to apprehension that he would be cold and remote, the Prince came across as a very amenable and caring person.
Corporate culture is not something easily amenable to management control or manipulation.
And the White House has always believed that that would eventually occur, and occur more or less on terms amenable to both sides. CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2001
And, if the law needed to be changed, she believed Justice Minister Michael McDowell was amenable.
The deposit hosts a large zone of near-surface, higher-grade chalcocite-covellite copper mineralization that we believe will be amenable to SX/EW, heap leach copper production. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
Even in straight achievement terms amenable to current games, imagine for example a paladin who gained bonuses for things like making a personal sacrifice for weaker members of a party your paladin receives buffs when rezzing if by your death the mob was killed while other party members who had sustained over 50% damage did not die. February 2006
The treaties following on these two wars have since been supplemented by other treaties opening still more ports, at some of which also adjoining plots of land have likewise been conceded, and our position in China to-day is founded on the accumulated result of these various agreements, which, above all things, guarantee us exterritoriality or exemption from Chinese jurisdiction, so that Europeans for whatever misdemeanours, are amenable only to their own consuls. Life and sport in China Second Edition
It is suggested here that metathetic continua may not be amenable to investigation as relative class concepts.
She might be more amenable to the idea if you explained how much money it would save.
In general, I found the Crafty Chica book fairly amenable to the use of recycled materials, and not too reliant on non-natural materials like fusible interfacing, which is nice my pet peeve is how so many projects that incorporate T-shirts instruct the usage of fusible interfacing. Crafty Green Book Review: Crafty Chica’s Guide to Artful Sewing
The forcefulness of his stand-up comedy and righteousness of his political writing make it easy to forget that the fortysomething father of two is a good-natured, funny and amenable bloke.
Nor is the exercise upon which the court is engaged amenable to such an answer.
For both the abortion rights movement and anti-abortionists, members of Congress could prove amenable to restricting access to abortion.
Polls suggest that, in these increasingly health-obsessed and conformist times, public opinion might also now be amenable.
One of them told her that she had even spoken to the woman about her, and that the woman was amenable to seeing her.
The company must negotiate the planning departments of many UK local councils, and Howes diplomatically suggests that some are more amenable than others.
There were, however, several regiments of Ho-nan irregular cavalry, all of whom were reckless horsemen and unamenable to anything like discipline.
The one would be amenable to personal punishment and disgrace; the person of the other is sacred and inviolable.
With the exception of liver metastases of colorectal cancer, tumour deposits are almost always multiple and seldom amenable to resection.
In an attempt to achieve legitimization and acceptance from the larger society, advocates of occultism have in recent years portrayed the occult as basically amenable to scientific investigation.
Bachmann Crazy Overdrive’s district (spiraling from the St Paul exurbs out to St Cloud) is definitely the most obvious casualty of contraction, as it’s more amenable for divvying up into the surrounding ones. Matthew Yglesias » Census Conspiracies Strike Back
His scientific discoveries are amenable to the laws of physics.
By stripping concrete objects of their less essential features, they become less involved and hence more amenable to mathematical treatment.
His scientific discoveries are amenable to the laws of physics.

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