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

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

Meck: We’re working on a checklist for folks, tools they can use with their partner, assuming there’s some amenability to that.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2019

Let them have poultry and gardens and fruit trees to attach them to their houses and promote amenability.

From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell