Compensation for physical injury includes consideration of past and future economic losses as well as monetary satisfaction for a variety of nonfinancial items of damage, such as pain and suffering or loss of amenities, which are not amenable to precise mathematical calculation.
It may be that you have beliefs that are not amenable to (precise) elicitation, in practice or even in principle.
Having already explored difficulties (and strengths) of each standard, how might we evaluate the more general thesis that death is not amenable to classical definition?
Another direction in which to take the thesis that death is not amenable to classical definition is to argue that death is a natural kind whose essence may be obscure.
The best explanation for the shortcomings of leading efforts to define death, the argument continues, is that death is not amenable to definition in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions (Chiong 2005).
In part, we attribute this to a relatively high level of conserved organization in SAR11 genomes, and the role of hypervariable regions, which by definition are not amenable to studies based on the identification of conserved genome features.
By definition, these are "Super-natural" data which are not amenable to investigation by research knowledge.
This surgical approach permits precise injection into the regions of interest but is slow, highly invasive, and not amenable to the treatment of large numbers of animals.
Zealots are not amenable to reason.
And my questions are designed to be precise questions so that I get a 'yes' or 'no' answer, or you can say, 'I don't know.' " Blankenhorn: "No sir — I often the questions are not amenable to those three choices.
"There were clearly elements not amenable to engagement".
