(a.) Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband.
(a.) Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law.
(a.) Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc.
(a.) Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
(2) Most of these other factors are under the control of the investigator, and thus are amenable to improvement.
(3) Studies of E1A support the notion that small DNA tumour viruses target cellular pathways at key points that are amenable to regulation.
(4) The other three were of the thoracoomphalopagus type with major cardiac and other abnormalities, they were not amenable to surgery and did not survive.
(5) These long-term effects of therapy have important implications, as some are amenable to treatment and others may be prevented by the careful monitoring of drug and radiation administration.
(6) The aims of this study were to examine mortality in one village in Israel and to determine which deaths could have been prevented by identifying those which were associated with avoidable factors or were caused by conditions which would have been amenable to preventive measures.
(7) There was no mortality and no allograft loss from these complications, which tend to occur late and be amenable to prompt repair.
(8) Consideration was given to length and sequence composition in an effort to maximize triple-strand formation under conditions amenable to the formation of the UL9-DNA complex.
(9) These results indicated that standardized fitness tests can predict performance on some CTT tasks and that test predictors were amenable to exercise training.
(10) From the original concept of encapsulating hemoglobin in an inert shell, LEH has evolved into a fluid proven to carry oxygen, capable of surviving for reasonable periods in the circulation, and amenable to large-scale production.
(11) In symptomatic cases, extraluminal diverticula are amenable to surgery, whereas intraluminal diverticula may be either surgically or endoscopically resected.
(12) The aspect of permanence may involve periods of many years, and is not amenable to standardization; meaningful limitation is subject to the individual needs, based on critical scientific follow-along of rehabilitation.
(13) We conclude that the quantitative aspects of bacterial anion exchange are amenable to study in an artificial system, and that the use of osmolytes as general stabilants can be a valuable adjunct to current techniques for reconstitution of integral membrane transport proteins.
(14) The results suggested that the modified tyrosine residues responsible for the activation were not involved in the active site of pseudocholinesterase or aryl acylamidase and that they were more amenable for modification in comparison to the residues responsible for inactivation.
(15) Cor triatriatum dexter is rare and is infrequently diagnosed before postmortem study; however, once the diagnosis is extablished, the condition is amenable to a relatively simple surgical correction.
(16) Local ownership and opportunities for action Organisations that use data to effectively support improvement know that you often need to break it down to the local level to understand variation and make it amenable to action for staff.
(17) These preliminary findings are important because they suggest that the dysfunctional sleep patterns of girls with the Rett syndrome may be amenable to behavioral treatments.
(18) We also discuss the amenability of surgical correction as well as the mechanisms of the intravenous growth of this type of tumor.
(19) They also suggest that the B6 background expresses an Igh allotype particularly amenable to autoantibody production, in spite of the relatively mild SLE-like syndrome in this strain.
(20) While many forms of male factor infertility are amenable to treatment, for some patients there is no corrective therapy available.
Amendable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being amended; as, an amendable writ or error.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
(2) People have grown very fond of the first and fifth amendments,” she reports.
(3) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
(4) • This article was amended on 1 September 2014 because an earlier version described Platinum Property Partners as a buy-to-let mortgage lender.
(5) It is a moment to be grateful for what remains of Labour's hard left: an amendment to scrap the cap was at least tabled by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn but stood no chance.
(6) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
(7) The resolution must be passed by both houses but cannot be amended.
(8) The Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1990 was signed into law by President Bush on November 15, 1990.
(9) Earlier this week the Obama administration said it would veto the bill unless major amendments were made.
(10) The Lords will vote on three key amendments: • To exclude child benefit from the cap calculation (this would roughly halve the number of households affected).
(11) During evidence in chief, he said the only people who would amend a settlement or information about a trade would be "the person who knew of the transaction, who would be the trader."
(12) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(13) This article was amended on 29 January 2016 to correct statistics from the BASW survey.
(14) The factsheet, concerning NSA's powers under Section 702 of the 2008 Fisa Amendments Act, was also supplied to members of Congress.
(15) During the night the Government has to do whatever it takes to re-include those amendments – on which they will attach a vote of confidence – otherwise Italians will see their taxes increase again without important compensatory measures being passed.
(16) • The headline on this article was amended on 20 January 2015.
(17) The Vitter amendment is popular with the Tea Party, which takes it to be an accountability measure.
(18) They all owe their existence to him.” This article was amended on 2 July 2015 to correct the name of the hospital where Sir Nicholas Winton died.
(19) This article was amended on 10 May 2016 to correct the wording of Labour’s Clause IV.
(20) The amendment has sparked a particular backlash against the senator widely regarded as responsible for the decision, Ahmed Yerima, who is reported to have married a 13-year old Egyptian girl.