185 examples of amenable in sentences

His most difficult task was the reform of ecclesiastical abuses, since this was bitterly opposed by the clergy and the conservatives; but he succeeded in establishing civil marriages, in suppressing the Mendicant order of friars, and in making priests amenable to the civil courts.

"dropped the pilot" and selected a more amenable successor, the real control of policy has lain with the Emperor.

due to, beholden to, bound to, indebted to; tied down; compromised &c (promised) 768; in duty bound. amenable, liable, accountable, responsible, answerable.

chinensis; but they have not been found very amenable to cultivation, except in very favoured parts of the South of England and Ireland.

As a rule the lonely fancies of middle-aged bachelors are scarcely less amenable to definition.

Reverchon had now been invited with similar intentions, and Renée was no more amenable than before.

If, on the contrary, she be quiet in her demeanour, honest, modest, and shows herself amenable to reproof, treat her as if she were your daughter.

But the strong will that slavery had not been able to break was not always amenable to politic suggestion.

Ptolemy was a sovereign, he said, and was not amenable to any foreign power whatever.

And so it turned out in the course of several years, that, as their love lost its fervour, their respective monitors acquired greater power in pleading the cause of her who was dead, and convincing them, against their will (for the all-powerful wish has no virtue here), that they had done a cruel thing, for which they were amenable to an avenging guardian of the everlasting element of good in nature's dualism.

But, proud as he was, Bob Stormonth, the younger of Kelton, was amenable to the obligations of a necessity, forged by his own imprudent hands.

How she had deceived him, and promised herself to another, and to get rid of that other, only for a time, had rendered herself amenable to the lawhad been guilty of actual crimehad sunk to feel the very slave of a felon, the lowest refuse of society.

Gentlemen, I am amenable to the gallows and the penitentiary, and it is no more than right that I shall have a voice in framing the laws under which I shall he rewarded or punished.

Never were grander principles enunciated upon any platform, never so grand before and never can be grander again, than the declaration that "all men," including of course all women, since women are amenable to the laws, "are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights *

And then he nobly took his revenge by the clever, but unprincipled way in which he caricatured the rather remarkable dancing of the young man who was the object of his hate, and whose style of movement it would not be consistent with this writer's duty to deny was amenable to severity, and must, in any society, have subjected him who indulged in it to the scorn of the flouter and the contempt of all high-minded men.

It had seemed probable he would be more amenable to reason in August than he had been in June.

But whereas Barras was willing to act on her advice, Napoleon was by no means equally amenable to her influence.

It sets up over his actions a foreign judge, at whose bar he is alike amenable (in theory) with his apprentice, before whose tribunal he may be dragged at any moment by his apprentice, and from whose lips he may receive the humiliating sentence of punishment in the presence of his apprentice.

The scriptures frequently allude to the fact, that wrong done by law, that is by society, is amenable to the same retribution as wrong done by the individual.

And a type of marriage where personal compatibility has come to be esteemed the fundamental thing will be altogether more amenable to divorce than the old union which was based upon the kitchen and the nursery, and the absence of any care, education, or security for children beyond the range of the parental household.

For a brief moment she had given him a glimpse of the shadowy recesses where she hid her naked soul; a glimpse only, like some of those she had given him when he was painting her portrait; but what he had seen now was differentan Olga no longer wistful no longer amenable; a wild, unreasoning thing who purred, cat-like, while he stroked her, sheathing and unsheathing her claws.

"The doctrine of immaterial substances," says Dr. Spurzheim, "is not sufficiently amenable to the test of observation; it is founded on belief, and only supported by hypothesis.

He is amenable for his conduct, in the government of the lodge, not to its members, but to the Grand Lodge alone.

The Flat Holm, 2 m. farther off, though of about the same circumference (1-1/2 m.), is a far less imposing object in the sea-scape, but is more amenable to the influences of civilisation.

The average boy proved himself too little amenable to discipline, too inclined to "sass" the telephone-users, and too careless.

185 examples of  amenable  in sentences