Sentence examples for The disputable from inspiring English sources

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The disputable

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Of opinions, propositions or questions, subject to dispute; not settled.

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Orion made the disputable claim in its announcement about the forthcoming Moriarty that he "may have committed more (fictional) murders than any other living author".

It is exactly the disputable quality of the compliments we pay to wine that makes them touch the lower edge of art.

Partly because of his philosophical presuppositions, borrowed chiefly from Husserl, van der Leeuw held the disputable doctrine that Phenomenology knows nothing of the historical development of religion: it picks out timeless essences of religious phenomena.

Likewise, Zeman's protests over a possible offside in the build-up to Udinese's second goal against Roma – as well as the disputable nature of the penalty award that led to their winner – should not distract from the fact that his team once again imploded in dramatic fashion at home.

In the early 1930s W.H. Auden was acclaimed prematurely by some as the foremost poet then writing in English, on the disputable ground that his poetry was more relevant to contemporary social and political realities than that of T.S. Eliot and William Butler Yeats, who previously had shared the summit.

Despite the disputable effects of scores or grades upon learning, providing scores or grades is still a common practice in many schools throughout Singapore.

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The 1999 2008 study might draw attention to the first disputable evidence for emerging possible age dependence of the risk factor.

In other investigations no correlation was detected [ 6- 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 18, 20], except for one publication [ 9], which reported an association between THADA SNP rs7578597 and a 2-h insulin level during an oral glucose tolerance test but no significant association between the THADA SNP and T2D risk, rendering the association disputable.

But when there is a state in the southwest like Kerala, with literacy and birthrates nearly at first-world levels, and a state like Bihar in the northeast, which is as poor and dysfunctional as anyplace in the third world, then the very notion of India as a single entity becomes all the more disputable.

If Shakespeare (to take the least disputable example) is a classic, why does every age interpret Shakespeare differently?

The least disputable measure of a bad week is any seven-day period that requires a body count at the end of it.

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