Sentence examples for was receptive when from inspiring English sources

HE was unhappy in the lesser role, people who worked with him said, so he was receptive when Bank of America came calling.

So I was receptive when, on the commuter train home a few months ago, James A. Fisher started questioning me about the shaving cream I had in a bag on my lap.

He has been receptive when a player requests time to attend a tribal ceremony.

Tigers are in estrus only occasionally, while lions are polyestrous (the females are receptive, when they are not rearing their cubs, several times a year).

Instead, he said, it's a way of training yourself to be aware of the natural world, "of being receptive when something is happening in the sky and noticing it".

DP: Film is an art, and art tends to be subversive so the people who read my film writing tend to be receptive when I express any left-wing bias.

So the company was receptive in 1997 when Mr. Ross came courting.

White House officials have indicated that Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev was receptive to the scheme when he met Obama at Camp David on the sidelines of the G8 summit.

Thus the commission was receptive -- perhaps too receptive -- when the larger companies lobbied for new rules allowing them to provide start-ups with capital and financing, so long as they did not exercise control of the smaller companies.

To test for stigmatic receptivity, one flower per individual (n = 15 individuals per taxon) had the pistil dipped in hydrogen peroxide, and the stigma was considered receptive when bubbles were released on the stigmatic surface (Zeisler 1938).

Like many of us, my friend (who, understandably, doesn't want to be named because she is somewhat embarrassed about this), is worried about finances and was, therefore, receptive when she came across an article online in The "Miami Gazette" about opportunities to work at home.