What's the difference between amenities and pleasantries?

Amenities


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Amenity

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.

Pleasantries


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Pleasantry

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani held the first direct talks between American and Iranian leaders since the 1979 Islamic revolution, exchanging pleasantries in a 15-minute telephone call on Friday that raised the prospect of relief for Tehran from crippling economic sanctions.
  • (2) Although he hosted the couple’s wedding celebration dinner at a mosque and frequently talked with Farook, Mustafa Kuko, director of the Islamic Centre of Riverside, said that he had at most exchanged a few pleasantries with Malik.
  • (3) Beyond the clattering of cameras and some polite pleasantries about the families, it was impossible to tell exactly what the monarch-in-waiting learned from the commander-in-chief – but he seems to be picking up some lessons on US political campaigning at least.
  • (4) Charlie Mulgrew could easily have been shown two yellow cards by a stricter referee and amid all the usual Anglo-Scottish pleasantries, the two sets of fans put an awful lot of effort into trying to drown out one another’s national anthems.
  • (5) Mustafa Kuko, the Riverside Islamic Center director, told the Guardian that although he hosted the couple’s wedding celebration dinner at a mosque in Riverside and frequently talked with Farook, he had at most exchanged a few pleasantries with Malik.
  • (6) Willian is believed to have "held talks" with Chelsea, in which pleasantries about the muggy London weather, the comfort of his hotel room and the size of the number that will appear on his weekly pay-cheque were almost certainly discussed.
  • (7) Trump began his presidency as a homebody, but he is becoming increasingly comfortable on the road – surrounded by the formal pleasantries of diplomacy and dinners – and decreasingly comfortable at home, where the TV is always on and the news is always bad.
  • (8) Not long now: The teams are out, the pleasantries have been exchanged and the niceties are over.
  • (9) He walked into the office of Governor Bill Clinton and, after a few pleasantries, cut to the chase: “I’ve got a deal for you.” On 6 April 1989, From charged Clinton with transforming the fortunes of a party that, after three historic election defeats, was facing oblivion.
  • (10) 7.44pm BST Pre-match pleasantries The players shakes others' hands and wish each other all the best and what not.
  • (11) Forget about forcing people to show papers; anti-immigrant conservatives didn’t bother with such pleasantries.
  • (12) Experienced senators beat a path to the benches halfway between the government and the opposition areas, exchanging pleasantries with the diverse group that now holds the power to make or break the Coalition’s legislative agenda.
  • (13) When not discussing business, Smith and Michel make jokes and share pleasantries – "Enjoy golf", texts Michel to Smith at one point.
  • (14) After a few pleasantries, which included frisking my shirt for wire-tapping devices, we sat around a plastic table while the most senior officer told me that his men were actively monitoring intelligence and military activities inside the government of Nouri al-Maliki .
  • (15) As the new gadget privatises the function of shaving and removes it from the social encounter of the barber's shop, he mock-laments the spiritual void of the customer deprived of the barber's pamperings and chatter, but proposes a mock-resolution: the invention of a talking razor, capable, at the press of a button, of reciting all the unsolicited pleasantries of a barber – the stuff that was anathema to the satirist.
  • (16) The meeting began with a series of pleasantries and then a bit of history.
  • (17) Well done, sir.” After a brief exchange of pleasantries with Corbyn, the dad told reporters: “I think he’s a true gent and he’s what politics needs.
  • (18) Given how many of them we squander on pleasantries, you’d be forgiven for forgetting their universal import.
  • (19) Play Video 0:14 First handshake: Trump and Putin meet at G20 summit – video Earlier in the day Trump and Putin shook hands and exchanged pleasantries – an encounter captured in a video and posted to Facebook by the German cabinet.
  • (20) But many of those in the town who encountered May said she did not discuss politics with them, instead exchanging pleasantries.

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