(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.
Congenial
Definition:
(a.) Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic.
(a.) Naturally adapted; suited to the disposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I find it very congenial to live in the natural beauty of the place I have in Connecticut.
(2) Yes, Scottish leader Ruth Davidson was congenial and popular, but she was still, you know, a Tory.
(3) They are "very congenial, caring people," said Pieters-James.
(4) Additionally, it is suggested that the conditioning analysis of tolerance is congenial with a current view of habituation, and there may be a similar associative basis for the response decrement to both endogenous and exogenous iterative stimulation.
(5) Paget dramatized this clear distinction between the intrinsic properties of the cancer cell and the properties of the host when he expanded on the analogy between tumors and plants: "When a plant goes to seed, its seeds are carried in all directions; but they can only live and grow if they fall on congenial soil."
(6) The active transport system is congenial to fluorescine - Km = 4-10(-5) M, which renders even small amounts of this substance to be quickly removed from the milieu.
(7) The medium mountain ranges have a congenial climate in connection with its abundant forests.
(8) She said she was enjoying the kindness and congeniality of the crowd, an antidote, she said, to the negativity of the last 18 months.
(9) Physical and mental activity, good health, adequate means, well considered accommodation, an absorbing interest, congenial company and a philosophy which encompasses mortality are among the assets and attitudes which may promote successful retirement.
(10) Another showing for Sandra Bullock film Miss Congeniality on Channel Five had 1.2 million viewers and a 5% share between 9pm and 11.10pm.
(11) Face set with the look of determined congeniality, glass of orange juice in hand, Young (who generally cares so little about "promotion" that he didn't bother to include any songs from the-then new On the Beach in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 74 tour repertoire) braced himself to face the press, a few at a time in manager Elliot Roberts' Sunset Strip office, a fortnight before the release of Tonight's the Night .
(12) He said mixed classrooms were “far more congenial”, and he had “much preferred” being head of a school where children of both sexes were taught.
(13) The bloody creeks of the Niger delta may yet seem strangely congenial.
(14) The well-known autosomal-recessive inheritance of the disease was masked by a pseudodominant appearance, reflecting the striking frequency of congenial marriages.
(15) In person, in private, he displays a congenial persona not always evident at the dispatch box.
(16) In perfectly bucolic and culturally congenial surroundings, Hawthorne's imagination took flight and his pen dashed over the page, producing 21 stories, many of which, including "Rappaccini's Daughter", would be collected in 1846 as Mosses from an Old Manse.
(17) A very congenial silence for the CBI and other business lobby groups, who can urge ministers to cut benefits for the poor harder and faster, knowing their members are still getting their bungs.
(18) Even colleagues who disagree violently with his view of the world concede that Wolfowitz was far more congenial than the usual Washington apparatchik.
(19) These achievement-congenial conditions characterize entrepreneurial business and, among those occupations traditionally filled by women, teaching.
(20) On a personal level, Neuberger is giving up a comfortable berth at the law courts in the Strand, where he can choose to sit with the most congenial of his many fellow judges, in exchange for a much smaller 12-judge court in Westminster, physically isolated from the rest of the judiciary and where tensions are never far below the surface.