tractability

“You will find she is some young lady who has had a misunderstanding with her friends, and has probably injudiciously left them. We may, perhaps, succeed in restoring her to them, if she is not obstinate: but I trace lines of force in her face which make me sceptical of her tractability.”

He added, "In addition, cephalopods go through a programmed, and pronounced, senescence at the end of their lives. In many ways, this senescence bears similarities to human neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimers and Parkinson's. With genetic tractability, cephalopods may develop into a powerful model for these disorders."

In a perverse form of political Darwinism, leaders in the executive branch have been selected for traits of turpitude and tractability.

History shows that, when presented with unpalatable evidence of the undesirable effects of our decisions, we either bury our collective heads in the sand, or order the problems we face in terms of their tractability.

"On the other hand ... the paperwork system doesn't provide tractability from the stump to the mill."