amenability

Example Sentences

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This is a moment of clarity, in which all of the women in the room witness together both the necessity of forgiveness and its irreducible complications, its transformative power alongside its dangerous amenability to injustice.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2023

“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

For convenience of description, the artery is divided into three parts, which have very various anatomical relations, and differ from each other much in their amenability to surgical treatment by ligature.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph