| One consequence of his death is that his personal opinions are now set in stone, unamenable to adaptation. |
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| Slavery remained an intractable and growing problem, unamenable to existing British naval and diplomatic activity. |
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| This is why I am very unamenable to the notion that we should switch to a gold or any other commodity-based standard. |
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| This was a world first, because these plants were hitherto unamenable to transformation by genetic engineering. |
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| Many Tory women MPs complain of a Westminster culture that, though no longer outright sexist, is unamenable to women. |
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| There were, however, several regiments of Ho-nan irregular cavalry, all of whom were reckless horsemen and unamenable to anything like discipline. |
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| Although continued arrests will land an individual in jail for 30 days if they are determined unamenable to treatment, the new law makes serving time less likely. |
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| In spite of a considerable shift in the overlapping areas of African studies, the art of tropical Africa is still considered unamenable to diachronic research. |
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| They are informed of political events through the press, but, as press ownership increasingly is concentrated in fewer hands, many persons consider the medium to be unamenable to the expression of a wide range of opinions. |
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| Nonlinear systems, on the other hand, are bewilderingly versatile in their modes of behaviour and are, moreover, very commonly unamenable to elegant mathematical analysis. |
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| His lazy character, it was correctly assumed, might make him tolerant of the Zionism that was burgeoning next door. Not so Hussein himself, who remained unamenable to British pressure. |
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| Under Proposition 36, drug offenders who fail treatment programs twice could be sentenced to jail or prison if they are found to be unamenable to treatment, and those who fail three times are required to serve time. |
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| German unification quite understandably provokes thoughts of an economic giant at the centre of Europe, unamenable to the wishes and worries of neighbours to its east and to its west. |
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