amenability

Example Sentences

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Then again, the amenability of these husbands to their wives' vision could be a more determinative factor.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2022

“The only real factor which is now determinative is amenability to treatment.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2022

It also says a lot about Oshie’s versatility and amenability.

From Washington Times • May 18, 2021

Lauren Bauser, an assistant state appellate defender, noted the “evolving” standards in courts and legislatures regarding young offenders, ensuring that their prison sentences are proportionate to their culpability and their amenability to rehabilitation.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2021

Madonna's seeming amenability to their wishes stayed their insistence, and they could but respect her wishes to let the betrothal be delayed yet a little while.

From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Sabatini, Rafael