unamenable

In 1971, he was sent to prison, declared unamenable for further treatment.

The world they plunged me into was unamenable and chaotic.

When I get close, it reverses the nature of my victims, and they become unamenable.

Privacy, therefore does not by itself make a datum unamenable to scientific treatment.

They're ranging in the bills now, unamenable to orders.

'He is rough, inconsiderate, unamenable to persuasion,' wrote his father.

It decimated their populations, unamenable to any treatment.

The room they'd locked him into was one of the guest suites, and the small dimensions of it were hopelessly unamenable to his long stride.

Unamenable to discipline.

She is not, I understand, entirely unamenable to rough play in the bedchamber; a fortunate happenstance, as I had cause to know.

Complicating matters, as would happen throughout the composer's career, his finest asset as a composer actually worked against him-namely, he was simply too successful a melodist, and melodies are extremely unamenable to symphonic development.

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.

Isobel, though a quick and able child, very fond of reading moreover, proved unamenable under discipline as understood by those formidable females, and owing to her possession of a curious tenacity of purpose, ended by wearing them down.

She imagines her exalted position renders her unamenable, and protects her from your righteous wrath; therefore she does what no one else dares do, and speaks what in the mouth of any other would be the blackest treason."

Any defendant who has two separate drug related convictions, has participated in Prop 36 twice before, and who is found by the court by clear and convincing evidence to be unamenable to any and all forms of available drug treatment.

Are Prosecutors Disingenuous But psychiatrists and civil liberties lawyers say the talk of treatment is disingenuous, given Section 1001 of the statute, which reads: "Sexually violent predators generally have anti-social personality features which are unamenable to existing mental illness treatment modalities."

In The Emerald City of Oz, she shows herself particularly unamenable to Oz, asking for a back attic room, simpler clothing, and is gauche enough to tell Billina that chickens are for broiling and eating without realizing that such a conversation would be deeply offensive.

The standard French light machine gun, the Hotchkiss, was also most unamenable to synchronisation due to rounds "hanging fire" - the Morane-Saulnier company designed a "safety backup" in the form of "deflector blades" (metal wedges) fitted to the propeller at the point where they would be struck by a bullet.