(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.
Pragmatic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Pragmatical
(n.) One skilled in affairs.
(n.) A solemn public ordinance or decree.
Example Sentences:
(1) This method seems the best way to evaluate the respective interactions of intonation with syntax and pragmatics.
(2) Although this operational classification does not produce etiologically homogeneous groups, it is believed to have pragmatic utility with respect to planning targeted surveillance and management strategies.
(3) The tasks which appeared to present the most difficulties for the patients were written spelling, pragmatic processing tasks like sentence disambiguation and proverb interpretation.
(4) By its pragmatic conception, modifications obtained by psychoactive agents are used (antidepressants of the group imipramine and IMAO, classical benzodiazepines and alprazolam, provocation controlled in laboratory) in order to strengthen innovating hypotheses and allow to elaborate useful treatment strategies for neuroses.
(5) The US defence industry needs pragmatic engagement, not principles.
(6) The focus of both studies was on children in their second year of life learning verbs in various pragmatic contexts.
(7) Sceptics said the US protections for journalists would make such a prosecution difficult and also cited pragmatic issues, such as the difficulty of extraditing Assange, an Australian.
(8) Trading decisions should be pragmatic, but they're not, especially when you're trying to recoup losses like he was."
(9) Writing on his blog for the Daily Telegraph , the former Conservative chairman said he would be voting Tory in Suffolk for pragmatic reasons to ensure his council did not fall into Labour, Lib Dem of Green hands.
(10) Abdella, now 19, illustrates the constrained choices and warped pragmatism that many here face.
(11) People are more pragmatic now than they were in the 1990s.
(12) This new breed of practitioner will be made up of persons who, for economic and pragmatic reasons, are concerned with accountability and who use single-subject designs to achieve it (Barlow et al., 1984).
(13) Following the announcement that Sky had been awarded the live TV rights to the Open and in light of financial developments since, the choice to amend the current contract from next year was a pragmatic one,” she said in a blog on the BBC website .
(14) "It's not about subjection or colonialism or dry pragmatism.
(15) I regret very much it’s come to this.” But Di Natale characterised the deal as reflective of his pragmatic leadership style.
(16) We will look at everything and we will take a view and it will be a pragmatic approach."
(17) The influence of social context on pragmatic skills of adults with mild to moderate mental retardation was examined.
(18) Another theory posits a split within the Kremlin elite over what to do about the problem of Navalny between the siloviki – Russia's powerful securocrats – and a more pragmatic group of political strategists who argue that the policy of prosecuting President Putin 's opponents, including dead ones such as Sergei Magnitsky , is a bad one.
(19) Mujica remains popular, but presidents cannot serve consecutive terms: the next election, on 26 October, will nevertheless represent a referendum on his pragmatic leftwing government.
(20) Quique Sánchez Flores, the fighter who prefers pragmatism to artistry at Watford Read more Flores is not a man to be discouraged easily and, having hung up his boots in 1997, the right-back – who was part of the Spain squad at the 1990 World Cup – finally lived the dream.