Meanings of less amenable in English

The forces that made reputations were far less amenable than she had fancied.

Obesity also is a source of cytokines but may be less amenable to treatment.

Too many politicians elsewhere are less amenable to reason.

As a rule the lonely fancies of middle-aged bachelors are scarcely less amenable to definition.

A fracture of the olecranon is less amenable to treatment, and promises little better than a ligamentous union.

Were the men-at-arms perhaps less amenable?

There is less active boycott and the ordinary citizen has become less amenable to the leaders of the agitation.

Every one of the little boys became more or less amenable to his influence, and among them Vernon Williams.

Publications have been less amenable.

Early-onset, severe fetal anaemia carries a greater risk of adverse fetal and neonatal outcomes and is less amenable to treatment with IUT.

She was grateful that he rode so well, having heard stories from the house staff about the less amenable infants they'd encountered.

The delay in initiating the third child was indeed becoming too long and Dua was growing less amenable to persuasion, not more.

Due to the lack of structural consistency among the insertions in exon 20, the latter are less amenable for a LNA-PCR design.

A Government could scarcely be found less amenable to the principles of all just Law, which exists alike for Rulers and ruled.

Distinctive characteristics of race are found more easily in the common people, who are less amenable to the change of fashion than their superiors.

There is a certain irrational element in the rationale of the organic being, making it less amenable to direct orders than a machine would be.