Sentence examples for contestable but from inspiring English sources

Thompson's interpretations were contestable, but his honesty and research were not.

The centres of Scotland's arts scenes are contestable, but no one would argue that anywhere but Glasgow is the country's musical capital.

Admittedly Aristotle always argued that education should "be contestable" – but I am not sure he had in mind the aggressive ideological zeal and pugnacious point-scoring of Michael Gove.

Critics will argue that some of these claims are contestable, but Ms Hedegaard told BBC News: "If we are defeatist over the climate we will get nowhere". "There are many good solutions out there that other people can learn from.

The concept of populism is highly contestable, but clarifying the difference between its left-wing and right-wing variants is both the best and the worst starting point for making sense of its contours.

Another highly contestable, but "comfortable," aspect of current practice has been the requirement for ≥2 OGTT values above threshold for the diagnosis of GDM.

And he also reminds us that programs and policies, always contestable, are but the manifestation of principles that cause people of conviction to join parties, campaign for candidates and seek to demonstrate in practical ways that progress is neither a euphemism nor a chimera.

What makes ours a "secular" age, he writes, is not that it is defined by unbelief, but rather that belief is contestable and contested.

Pilnick and Dingwall have argued that power asymmetries are inherent to the physician role: "Physicians… are not just healers of the sick…, but also socially licensed adjudicators on contested or contestable claims to dependency.

(3) is obviously a contestable, and contested, claim.

Where monopolies are natural ones (perhaps because of network effects) or backed by government licence or regulation the situation is different, but a contestable monopoly can almost certainly be left alone.