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Recent Examples of unamenable
But wireless providers and others are pushing back, saying that backup power resources are case-by-case judgements unamenable to bureaucratic micromanagement and that blanket requirements reduce operators’ flexibility to respond to disasters.
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Roslyn Layton, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
Roslyn Layton, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unamenable
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Trump's appearance also highlighted a key talking point, the assumption that Harris is unwilling to do interviews to discuss her record with unfriendly media.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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If your new partner frequently reschedules meetings at the last minute, avoids discussing important details, or seems unwilling to compromise, these may be signs that the collaboration could become more challenging than productive.Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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To the latter, the realization that simply removing human agency from the handling of our affairs has been enough to solve our most intractable problems might reveal too explicitly the shortcomings of human design.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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In the sciences, AI advocates promise that AI will aid in curing hitherto intractable diseases.Nir Eisikovits, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
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Making clear that any future conflict would end with the reunification of the entire peninsula under the South’s authority should increase the North’s restraint, as well as reinforce China’s efforts to rein in its obstreperous ally.Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2013
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Featuring bodies stacked like cords of wood and a bloated S.S. guard dangling from an iron hook, the spread was an obstreperous incursion among the kind of fashion and perfume ads that Miller had once shot or appeared in.Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
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To better prepare an incoming President replacing a recalcitrant one, Republicans and Democrats in Congress in 2022 passed the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act.Brian Bennett, TIME, 2 Nov. 2024
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Just as most sectors of white-collar management have proved more recalcitrant to de-skilling than manual labor, so too the intellectual work of the art historian and critic has taken somewhat longer to de-skill than its avant-garde counterparts.15 But for Buchloh, that moment has come.Gordon Hughes, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
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It is meant to treat only people with refractory myeloma.Sarah Hudgens, Health, 23 Sep. 2024
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Similar to refractory bricks, firebricks can store heat or insulate, depending on what they’re made from.New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Aug. 2024
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But even Jewish-Jewish coalitions have proved ungovernable.Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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The many examples of personal incompetence in rich industrial democracies generated the thesis that such countries had become ungovernable.Harold James, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
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There is no line value based solely on the model but the Giants apply to a very good 236-117-10 ATS contrary indicator and this is the type of game that the Steelers traditionally haven’t been at their best under coach Mike Tomlin.Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Once perceptions are framed and anchored, confirmation bias—the tendency for people to pay attention only to evidence that agrees with their perceptions and to ignore contrary information—tends to set in.Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
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At any point, a willingness to be both selfish and disobedient would have saved her.Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 25 Sep. 2024
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In this view, disobedient journalists, scientific experts, officials, and judges are the enemy.Pippa Norris, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2021
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“Unamenable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unamenable. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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