Sentence examples for not so amenable from inspiring English sources

But you can be subject to something in theory but not so amenable in practice.

However, by the time PARC had successfully designed the PC, corporate conditions at Xerox were not so amenable to innovation.

But art is not so amenable to outlining, and art movements are really messy, edgeless things that should only become more so with age.

If Backpage.com is driven out of business, traffickers will simply gravitate to off-shore websites that are not so amenable to working with American law enforcement and trafficking victims will be forced further underground.

The woman who came calling, with her tight curls and skin as black as mine and her limp, was named Louisa, and I ended up moving in with the two of them and Augustine's two girls who were halfway to adult age and not so amenable to their mother's guidance, she was too caught up with her own business, a sure disaster when dealing with young people.

This system is not so amenable to uptake measurement so data are lacking.

I also like how much rests on chance in this show – if Renate's family didn't despise her and actually listened, then Martin's cover would already be blown; if General Jackson didn't hanker for a room with a view and Mayer wasn't so amenable, then the mission would have been considerably more straightforward – it adds a suitably random element that makes everything harder to predict.

Human nature is not so easily amenable to fundamental change.

It has been suggested that this neglect may have something to do with an intellectual's prejudice against the "esoteric," e.g. the significance of ritual with its symbols and images, which are not so easily amenable to rational comprehension and instead conjure up preconceptions of the "occult" and the "magical".

Sadly, Swift was not quite so amenable to a mild ribbing, and her response channelled the full talent for drama that makes songs like We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together and You Belong With Me (a song about making a move on another girl's boyfriend, consistency fans) so intoxicatingly teenage.

VCs and other institutional investors may not be so amenable.