amenable (adj)
Sens 1 : willing to be influenced or
controlled. [source : OAL]
Contextes :
- Above all, linking political participation to
membership in a religio-linguistic group for the
sake of balance and equality in practice allowed
provincial men in power to treat Turcophone Muslims
as a backward flock whose emigration couldn't and
shouldn't be stopped while Bulgarophone Christians
were reasonable and amenable to specific
measures.
- In a context wherein direct confrontation with
staff was reduced, individual prisoners (with the
support and encouragement of their lawyers) became
increasingly amenable to the idea of using the
courts to press their claims.
- According to Lloyd however, artists are more
amenable to mixing with diverse populations and
suffering area decay and inconveniences for both
aesthetic and economic reasons.
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Sens 2 : subject to the
authority of something. [source : OAL]
Contextes :
- There is an urgent need to replicate Thornton's
work and find out whether his result is reliable and
whether CMFs are amenable to the transformation of
primaries.
- For the most part, the attendees of the Ulinski
Center have lost trust in the police, the attendees
at Lincoln Park are slightly more amenable to
interacting with the police, the attendees of the
Dulski Center seemed most likely to engage with
police.
- VPOs are amenable to solid-phase catalysis; the
large surface areas that can be packed into a small
mass of the catalyst make for good
economy.