(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.
Peaceable
Definition:
(a.) Begin in or at peace; tranquil; quiet; free from, or not disposed to, war, disorder, or excitement; not quarrelsome.
Example Sentences:
(1) I think the fact that we have communities which are so diverse and that you can have people squashed together like sardines in the London tube from different backgrounds, different cultures, different skin colours, different traditions, different perspectives and still do so peaceably and generously to each other I think is a great thing.
(2) Video from the island at the weekend shows police clashing with demonstrators, including women and children, and it shows one man attacking a refugee as he peaceably filmed the demonstration.
(3) A few years after the millennium, the world was at its most peaceable in recorded history.
(4) She suggests that their unique and generally peaceable social organisation may be one factor in their longevity.
(5) Perhaps the cold war was certain to end peaceably, rather than in a nuclear holocaust; perhaps the dissolution of the Soviet Union was equally certain.
(6) It's easy to picture him on that barge, gliding peaceably along, unhurriedly in search of lost time.
(7) This paper tries to show that unless there is one and only one rationally sustainable definition of "a person", then the peaceable society cannot remain peaceable, but will be stirred up by groups with different and equally rational definitions.
(8) Most people fled, but according to the locals, several thousand peaceable citizens remained .
(9) It is worth looking back to what David Laws – the Lib Dem education minister, said to be "at war" with Gove but perfectly peaceable less than a year ago – said to the education select committee in October 2013.
(10) Srinagar, once a place where Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist lived peaceably side-by-side, all distinctively Kashmiri, is no longer such a place.
(11) The psychologist Steven Pinker has been advancing his belief that " this may be the most peaceable time in our species' existence " (news to the residents of Donetsk and Damascus, perhaps).
(12) Thus, further pursuit of the conditions that prevail in pregnancy may lead to a better understanding of the mechanisms used by "foreign" cells to coexist peaceably with host cells, bypassing immune mechanisms designed for their destruction.
(13) On 13 May, according to Mohammed, the shabiha moved into his area of al-Shammas, formerly a relatively peaceable Homs neighbourhood, and perpetrated a massacre there; he doesn't know how many were killed.
(14) In his recent book The Foundation of Bioethics, H. Tristam Engelhardt Jr. advances the idea of a peaceable pluralist moral society based on principles of autonomy, beneficience, and ownership.
(15) He was much praised for his influence in ensuring that the SLPP's transition from government to opposition took place peaceably.
(16) Being a gamer, though, means you fundamentally must believe in belonging: believe that people of all attitudes, from all walks of life, can peaceably coexist.
(17) Only this time nature was human: a flood of people who left their homes and walked peaceably into the squares of their cities to say "no more".
(18) Less than one year ago Li Keqiang, the Chinese premier, signed agreements with Vietnam on trade, infrastructure and maritime security, including recommitting China to a 2011 bilateral pact to manage peaceably their differences in the South China sea.
(19) But the notion that when dissent becomes so hostile or unpleasant that it should be curbed does not help those of us who wish to express opposition to the war cogently and peaceably but who often go unheard because of general media bias against our views.
(20) Commanders “actually knew that they could not lawfully arrest people simply for standing peaceably on the sidewalk,” she wrote.