Sentence examples for was not amenable from inspiring English sources

Read's was considered for artists' housing five years ago by Peter Shapiro, a Hartford banker, and his partners, but the city was not amenable to the idea.

But Gladwell was not amenable to modifications, calling the idea that brain injuries could be minimized by better helmets or medical care "a fantasy".

The various parties were edging close to a deal when the New York State attorney general's office notified the court that for the time being it was not amenable to any agreement.

When the book was published in 1987, Tina Brown (then the editor of Vanity Fair) wrote in The Times: "The trouble with 'Answered Prayers' is that Capote at this stage was not amenable to the demands of nonfiction.

He continued to hold that job after he informed the Bureau in a sworn statement that he was not amenable to a voluntary polygraph examination, and, incredibly, even after invoking his Fifth Amendment privilege and refusing to testify about his conduct as an F.B.I. supervisor at a hearing last May.

Another forensic psychiatrist who has interviewed Brady on 10 occasions between 2003 and 2013 said he did not believe Brady was sufficiently mentally ill to be detained in hospital but instead suffered a "severe personality disorder" which was not "amenable" to treatment.

The migrated metallic tracheal stent was not amenable to removal as it would cause further airway injury and loss of seal of the majority of the fistula.

He talks about the experts who said crime reduction wasn't amenable to the meager tools of a struggling municipality.

Pakistan's entrenched problems are not amenable to quick fixes.

"Insects and plants are not amenable to human ideology.

"I made it clear yesterday that I am not amenable to that.