The voter is selected, under our laws, because he has certain physical qualifications - age and sex. His disqualifications, when any are imposed, relate to his education or property, and to the fact that he has not been convicted of crime. Of all men he should be most directly amenable to public opinion.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
It was always something. He often wondered at the strength of that sense of trusteeship, which kept him still tolerant of the troubles, amenable to the petitions of this brother of his; or was it just "blood" feeling, a Highland sense of loyalty to kith and kin; an old- time quality which judgment and half his instincts told him was weakness but which, in spite of all, bound him to the distressful fellow? Was he drunk now, that he kept lurking out there by the door? And he said less sharply:英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
"I am more amenable to treatment," said the Prince, a good deal
revived. "I am my own man again at once, as you perceive. And so,
let me ask you, what are my directions?"英文原著 · 《New Arabian Nights》
Yes, but, on the whole, it is safer to show him a clean pair of heels than to enter on an argument with him, hoping that he will be amenable to logic. Herbert Courtland said his, "/Retro me/," in a whisper, half hoping, as the gentlewoman with the muffins for sale hoped, that he would escape notice. For a few moments he ceased to think of himself. He thought of that beautiful thing before him--she was tall, and her rosy white flesh was as a peach that has reached its one hour of ripeness--he thought of her and pitied her.英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
After an expression of the deputation's opinion that immediate steps should be taken to make the rector of St. Chad's amenable to the laws of the Church,英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
"Nonsense! Pray talk to him, Phyllis," cried Ella. "You may make him amenable to reason."英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
And give Axe a chance to form a board even more amenable to his goals?美剧 · 《Billions》
Yeah. Faced with the prospect of firing their biggest clients, uh, they were both surprisingly amenable to reconsidering the purchases.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》