(a.) Friendly; proceeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement.
Example Sentences:
(1) We regret this situation has resulted in litigation, however it is our sincere hope that the matter can be resolved amicably.
(2) On his sitting-room wall are some lines from the Bible, a photograph of his two teenage daughters (he is separated from their mother, with whom they live, and you gather that the split, which took place after what he calls his 'accident', was not entirely amicable), and the world championship belt that Nigel Benn gave him.
(3) Luc Coene, the central bank governor of Belgium, said an "amicable divorce" was possible, while Ireland's central bank governor, Patrick Honohan, said it would be "not necessarily fatal but it is not attractive".
(4) The couple have "an amicable relationship for the sake of the children".
(5) Close friends with Ed Balls and Lord Mandelson, the Murdochs and BBC business editor Robert Peston, Rudd was seen as the go-between who brought together New Labour and the City; it was a pairing that was to end not entirely amicably.
(6) The judges whittled down the 152 entries to six in an amicable fashion, Macfarlane said.
(7) It said the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, and foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, had sought a six-month adjournment in September in an attempt to allow the two countries “to seek an amicable settlement”.
(8) Amicably organized mice initially did not attack strangers, but over a period of 25 days the number of attacks on unfamiliar males gradually increased.
(9) In private, senior Greek officials say their preference would be to find an amicable solution with western lenders.
(10) In its annual report the PCC said that it "amicably settled" 544 complaints in 2010 – down from 609 successfully resolved complaints in 2009.
(11) Three amylase phenotypes, AmIB, AmIC, and AmIBC, were detected by electrophoresis of blood serum from 329 Holstein cattle.
(12) Amal Clooney, the human rights lawyer, has said it is only prudent that Greece seeks legal advice in its attempt to reclaim the Parthenon marbles from the British Museum , but hopes an amicable solution can be found to the decades-long dispute.
(13) But in a sign of the amicable tone of the talks, the two sides have in the meantime signed a co-operation agreement and begun the process of seeking approval from competition authorities in Brussels – although UK competition officials could request jurisdiction.
(14) In this situation, divorce from the EU would probably be relatively amicable and require a negotiated free trade agreement.
(15) It was agreed that the chancellor would remain in first class and an amount of £189.50 was paid by the aide to cover the upgrade for Mr Osborne and his PA. "The situation was dealt with amicably between the train manager and George Osborne's aide.
(16) This club has helped me fulfil my dreams over and over again.” Although Gerrard insists his decision to part company with Liverpool has been “very amicable”, the admission that he would have signed an extension had one been on the table in the summer raises fresh questions over Fenway Sports Group’s handling of the situation.
(17) I hope that an amicable solution to this issue can be found, given the longstanding friendship between Greece and the UK,” she said, adding that she and her colleagues, Geoffrey Robertson and Norman Palmer, QCs and specialists in cultural restitution, had initially been approached by the Greek authorities three years ago.
(18) Despite interest from Real Madrid , Suárez's preferred destination should he leave Anfield, there was no suggestion from Guardiola that his client has a move in the pipeline during the planned and amicable meeting.
(19) The situation was dealt with amicably between the train manager and George Osborne's aide.
(20) Yet under Macmillan, employment was neglible and prices stable: government worked amicably with organised labour, and the living standards of trade unionists increased far more rapidly than they were to do in the 1970s and 1980s.
Inimical
Definition:
(a.) Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable; -- chiefly applied to private, as hostile is to public, enmity.
(a.) Opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic; inconsistent; incompatible; adverse; repugnant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nutritionists know that crash dieting is inimical to healthy eating in the long run.
(2) Since ion depletion is a constant concomitant of modern urban life, one reasonably may speculate about comparable inimical effects on humans.
(3) Extension of this motif was actually inimical to coherence.
(4) The "military modernizers" embraced a concept of development inimical to basic human needs, an economic model favoring growth over distribution and development over social welfare, and budget priorities favoring vocal, urban middle sectors at the expense of marginal populations.
(5) Such increases are usually thought of as inimical to health and therefore present the health educator with a dilemma.
(6) The survival of SA(-) derivatives in association with populations of SA(+) bacteria was dependent upon the use of culture conditions inimical to SA activity, since a consistent finding was that the loss of ability to produce SA was associated with loss of immunity to the killing action of this bacteriocin.
(7) The current psychoanalytic stance is presented as inimical to the stance Freud took, and an exploration of ways to ameliorate the conflict between American psychoanalytic thought and affirmation of homosexuality as an alternative healthy lifestyle is undertaken.
(8) The movement presents the symptoms of a prolonged infantile spasm, at the same time as a coherent belief that central government and especially Obamacare are inimical to the liberty of the individual and the freedom of individual states to determine their future.
(9) Sessions said that while he believed that “many people do have religious views that are inimical to the public safety of the United States”, at the same time, “I have no belief, and do not support the idea, that Muslims as a religious group should be denied admission to the United States.” Since proposing a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” in December 2015, Trump has taken a variety of different stances on the subject, most often saying he would restrict the ban to people arriving from countries affected by terrorism.
(10) Though a behavioral approach may be useful later in the treatment of such problems, the effective clinician must first address the inimical social and cultural contexts that frame lesbian sexual impasses.
(11) The two high court judges continued: "The suppression of reports of wrongdoing by officials in circumstances which cannot in any way affect national security is inimical to the rule of law," they ruled.
(12) Chronic depolarization is inimical to neuronal growth and synaptogenesis so that spontaneous action potential generation appears to be required for the normal cytomorphological maturation of neocortical networks.
(13) However, the discoveries in mice of a conserved family of immunoglobulin genes used exclusively by immunogenic forms of progesterone conjugated to proteins to stimulate antibody production, and of antibody binding to the uterine epithelium, reveal systems potentially inimical for embryo survival.
(14) The Discussion argues that the available data on conduction time to and from the cerebral cortex are compatible with the hypothesis that the long-latency component of the stretch reflex uses a transcortical reflex arc, and that none of the experiments described in the present paper are inimical to this view.
(15) It is suggested that enzymes, leukotrienes, catecholamines and eicosanoids released by degenerating leukocytes and platelets may be inimical to RBC.
(16) The authors view Webster and its anticipated legislative and judicial aftermaths as especially inimical to a physician's right to communicate with patients and to exercise medical judgment free from state interference.
(17) However, fever also often gives rise to risks and inimical sequelae.
(18) Photograph: Alamy Size: 0.03sq miles Threave Island introduced to the historical stage a character so morosely inimical there could be only one possible name for him: Archibald the Grim.
(19) If women were able to control their fertility in order not to have children at unwanted times in periods of their life when pregnancy is inimical to their health, the incidence of maternal mortality and morbidity would drop.
(20) Enactment rather than remembering is inimical to the development of insight into transference and genetic connections and must be worked through for the analysis to progress.