But whether or not a robust, real-time fact-check was even possible, it was clear after the dust had settled that verification would have likely added another 90 minutes to the proceedings, as there ended up being a flurry of disputable claims that needed to be sifted and sorted through after it was all over.
His celebrations were cut short by a disputable offside call.
The claim is disputable, however, specifically because Edison's motion-picture operations were entrusted to an assistant, W.K.L. Dickson, and generally because there are several plausible pre-Edison claimants in England and France.
This claim is disputable, as it seems a contingent matter whether the relevant particular facts arrange themselves in ways susceptible to general summary and whether our cognitive apparatus can cope with them at all without employing general principles.
These claims were disputable, but the great strength and wide geographical spread of communist organization was a fact.
And though its methods are disputable, few dispute the justice of its cause.
But the evidence for religious claims — metaphysical arguments from plausible but disputable premises, intermittent and often vague experiences of the divine, historical arguments from limited data, even the moral and intellectual fruitfulness of a religious life — typically does not meet ordinary (common-sense or scientific) standards for postulating an explanatory cause.
The claim that war produces more harm than good is disputable; at least, it requires empirical research to decide if it is true.
Moreover, the claim that economic interdependence automatically ameliorates the chances of conflict is disputable.
