The phrase "arguable claim" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a statement or assertion that can be supported or contested with evidence or reasoning.
Example: "The author's assertion that climate change is primarily caused by human activity is an arguable claim that invites further debate."
Alternatives: "debatable assertion" or "contentious statement".
The arguable claim that any Ohio voting irregularities could not have altered the outcome of the presidential election is misplaced.
Foskett added that although he was "not truly persuaded" that Montague had an "arguable claim", he would allow the journalist's application to proceed for "pragmatic reasons".
On Afghanistan, he promised to adhere to the 2014 withdrawal deadline that he had earlier mocked, and even endorsed Obama's (arguable) claim that we are on course to stand up a sturdy, self-sufficient Afghan army.
The project originated in a passing Twitter comment by the critic and musicologist William Robin, who, back in December, made the boldly arguable claim that "Play," a kaleidoscopically churning forty-five-minute score by the young Los Angeles-based composer Andrew Norman, "might be the best orchestral work that the twenty-first century has seen thus far".
Effective thesis statements express the main focus of a paper and state an arguable claim.
From the 1930s through the '60s, the South Africa national rugby union team could make arguable claims to being unofficial world champions.
621, 530 P.2d 587 (failure to pursue arguable claims may constitute malpractice).) Aware that his settlement will not ordinarily prevent his participating in the litigation of the issues of damages and relative fault and that he might be held liable for further damages, a defendant contemplating settlement will rarely do so alone.
18 It is Director Holt who appears as a respondent in this Court, and there is not even an arguable basis for claiming that the record would support an award of damages against him individually.
Nobody would dispute, for example, that the Cro-Magnons had language; such a claim is arguable in earlier Stone Age H. sapiens and Neanderthals.
Holder assured his audience that this policy follows the letter of international law a claim that's arguable at best.
