(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.
Squeamish
Definition:
(a.) Having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties.
Example Sentences:
(1) But more than any squeamishness around buying sperm like teabags, the problem is that this industry is over-claiming.
(2) Did she, as a child, feel equal squeamishness about the sexual content of his art?
(3) For India's British colonial rulers this could have meant many things, including consensual fellatio between a man and a woman, but its squeamish machismo clearly had in mind penetrative sex between two adult males, a spectre that continues to terrify the morally correct across the world .
(4) Less squeamishness in reporting the reality of death would show the barbarous truth about how badly life ends for all too many.
(5) Hofer’s victory would require a clarification of speech from the commenting world, and we will have to be less squeamish about the word “fascist”: an urgent de-normalisation of political language.
(6) When it came to it, my mother still had to take my daughter for the injections, as I was too squeamish.
(7) And she sacked big beasts too, including those – George Osborne or Michael Gove – whose dispatch a more squeamish leader might have feared.
(8) By popular arts, Hamilton emphatically did not mean the folk arts, which turned him very squeamish.
(9) Just capitalism in action, it might be argued – no point being squeamish.
(10) But while in many countries entomophagy is normal, in the UK we can be squeamish about it.
(11) Maude is also right that elected ministers should not devolve controversial decisions out of squeamishness – although I note the Independent Reconfiguration Panel , set up so health ministers wouldn't have to take flak about merging hospitals in their own or colleagues' constituencies, stays.
(12) Opportunities presented themselves for promising junior staff - which the future Cameroons were not squeamish about taking.
(13) And leave them out altogether if you’re squeamish yourself.
(14) Secret aid worker: I'm a sanitation specialist but I'm squeamish about poo Read more Catarina de Albuquerque, chair of the global Sanitation and Water for All partnership, calls the Global Citizen concert the tip of the iceberg.
(15) Boyle's films have never been for the squeamish: witness the lavatorial epiphany in Trainspotting , or the shadowy child-torture of Slumdog .
(16) So while some people may be squeamish about Twitter and there may be good reason to be cautious , I can't help but see it as a privilege to be able to tap into the thoughts of individuals which, presented as a stream, fascinate and educate.
(17) But chalk one up for the boy scouts and their first aid training, because he grabbed me and cleared my airways – no task for the squeamish – while yelling at the cabbie to drive faster.
(18) But the truth is, I am very squeamish when it comes to my loo habits.
(19) Squeamishness has too often in the recent past inhibited sensible inquiries into the mechanisms by which AIDS is spread through human populations but now there may be proof that these attitudes are changing.
(20) Together these groups represent a potentially vast reservoir of HDP voters, whose inherent squeamishness about favouring a Kurdish nationalist party Demirtaş hopes in time to surmount.