be agreeable

“We soon found that, although, in imagination, it might be agreeable work, yet in reality, it was the most laborious and in the majority of cases the most unsatisfactory that men could be engaged in,” Augustin Hibbard wrote to his brother a few months later.

A rate of 600 would be agreeable “when dressed in wool underwear, socks, mitts, ski boots, ski headband, and thin cotton wind-breaker suits.”

Because Western democracies will not be agreeable to that, he added, “in the next stage, we will be forced by their reaction to declare full independence” of the Serb-controlled regions of Bosnia.

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the council that the United States will propose a presidential statement, saying at a minimum all 15 members should be agreeable to condemning the North’s unprecedented missile launches, to urging Pyongyang to comply with U.N.

“It may be agreeable to listen to these songs, but there’s nothing easy about them. Try playing them. Try singing them.”