If there was an earthquake in Latin America, says one of my guides, "I could make a phone call and by 6pm there would be 10,000 volunteers here boxing up [relief supplies]." Nearly everyone agrees that Mormons make agreeable neighbours: cheerful, friendly and highly unlikely to throw drunken parties.Yet many Americans remain suspicious of Mormonism.
One of the best-known authors in this group was Ameen Rihani (died 1941), whose descriptions of his journeys through the Arab world are informative and make agreeable reading.
Many of these biographical manuals, such as ʿOwfī's Lubāb al-albāb ("Quintessence of the Hearts") or Dowlatshāh's Tazkirat al-shuʿarā ("Biography of the Poets"), make agreeable reading.
Michael Ende's Jim Knopf und Lucas der Lokomotivführer (1961; Eng. trans., Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver, 1963) has more than a touch of Oz; and both Kästner and Krüss have made agreeable additions to the realm of fantasy.
Attempts are clearly being made to destabilize the social and economic situation, to weaken Russia in one way or another or to strike at our weaker spots, and they will continue primarily to make us more agreeable in resolving international issues.
When or if you fail to make the minimum agreeable payment on your private student loans the lenders will go after the cosigner for full payment.
It's much more agreeable to make rules for others, as every dictator is aware, than to police yourself.
Take the appalling Captain Renault, played by Claude Rains - a spineless stooge of Vichy France, who will appease anyone to make his own life agreeable.
"Fair conditions for interaction" may be taken to be an environment in which individuals are free to make deals on mutually agreeable terms and contracts are enforced, individuals are prohibited from deliberately harming each other by physical assault, extortion, coercion, fraud, theft of property and the like.
Check the price to make sure it's agreeable.
