What is "amenable"

Usage examples of "amenable".

The basic premise of Amel is that the phenomena of religion are as much amenable to science as the phenomena of nature.

Yet they are the same men, suddenly stiffened and grown amenable to discipline by the satisfaction of standing to the enemy at last.

The Constitution itself had made Jack Kennedy Commander in Chief, and with that sort of power invariably came the urge to make use of it, and so reshape the world into something more amenable to his personal outlook.

Winds, laik everything else, are amenable to control, if you only know how to control them.

It was a large effect, specific, reproducible and, above all, very amenable to physiological - and later biochemical, pharmacological and morphological - investigation.

War automata, possessing no instinct for self-preservation, designed for suicidal combat, would hardly be amenable to entering into any kind of negotiations with a cosmic intruder.

The dullheads in charge would hardly be amenable to having a clairvoyant of any kind on staff.

Yet in a way it was something of this order that he awaited, something less threatening, less sectarian that is, for he could hardly admit to having come, like a vulgar Greek, seeking a sign: no, it was rather some vague, exotic manifestation of some equally vague and exotic Presence, a mystery of euhemeristic proportions and, brought forth in his own prose, amenable to reason.

Thus Schmidt could not enter the house of Hepplewhite without making himself amenable to the law.

Those holidays I take, with her blessing, are not spent exclusively in French provincial towns looking at cathedrals, although such towns are as amenable to adventures as any other place.

A similar rationale determined that subjects would introspectively focus on simple perceptual stimuli, for Wundt believed that more complex mental phenomena, such as thoughts, volitions, and feelings, were not sufficiently amenable to experimental control to be objects of scientific inner perception.

There were more trees than amenable fauns and nymphs, so that some trees that might have flourished magically became ordinary.

And the objects are thus perceived as related because the mind itself has related them in order to make them amenable to its handling: in other words the causative soul or mind in that other sphere is utterly alien, and the things there, supposed to be related to the content of this living whole, can be nothing to our minds.

It was a large effect, specific, reproducible and, above all, very amenable to physiological - and later biochemical, pharmacological and morphological - investigation.

She knew not how such an offence as hers might be classed by the laws of worldly politeness, to what a degree of unforgivingness it might with propriety lead, nor to what rigours of rudeness in return it might justly make her amenable.