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• s  disposed or willing to comply
  someone amenable to persuasion
• s  readily reacting to suggestions and influences
• s  open to being acted upon in a certain way
  an amenable hospitalization should not result in untimely death
  the tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment
• s  liable to answer to a higher authority
  the president is amenable to the constitutional court

• David thought it was a breakthrough idea, but his company, surprisingly was not so amenable to it.
• By tomorrow afternoon, with an amenable weather, we hope to land in Antarctica.
• Michael favored the new presidential appointee, hoping that the new appointee will be amenable to his ideas.

• conformable
• tractable

News & Articles

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• UPDATE: Corvus Gold Down 2% Despite Nevada Deposit Drill Results, Says Silver Tests "Encouraging"
  Corvus Gold (KOR.TO) announces "encouraging" silver tests from Yellow Jacket deposit in North Bullfrog, Nevada and said the gold deposit may be amenable to low-cost open pit mining.
  June 5, 2013 - Nasdaq

Quotes

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• Wen Jiabao in AFP
  We must use all our forces, and save lives at whatever costs,Wen told a meeting late Wednesday at the quake relief headquarters in Dujiangyan. "Life is the most precious thing, we must be amenable to the people and to history."
• David Emerson in Globe and Mail
  The insurgency is not going to be amenable to a short-term fix,Mr. Emerson told a Kandahar news conference Friday. "The Taliban is not going to go away in my opinion - not in the near term. . . It will be something that will have to be...
• Barack Obama in BP News
  Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values,Obama said at the event in Washington. "It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable...