In fact, the usage has been forbidden by no less an authority than the Fowler brothers, in their seminal 1906 work "The King's English": "Our view, though we admit it to be disputable, is clear — that they, their, &c., should never be resorted to".
"But we shall say in answer to this argument also that while there is some justification for their thinking that the changing, when it is changing, does not exist, yet it is after all disputable; for that which is losing a quality has something of that which is being lost, and of that which is coming to be, something must already be.
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.
And it's not even that Trump's only two claims to qualification for the presidency are that he's been a successful business owner (certainly disputable), and that he's worth more than $10 billion, for which there has been no definitive independent verification.
"When people say, 'That's not traditional,' that's really disputable almost all the time," the Italian chef, Giorgio Locatelli, told me.
Further, the acceptable proportion of children with problems that were not predicted is disputable, making it difficult to recommend cut off points of the scores in clinical practice.
This is disputable given the fact that physical therapists in private practice, in general, see more patients with different indications each day than therapists in nursing homes.
The impact of the income level in our study is disputable taking into consideration that all medical health care (in the hospitals or outpatient clinics), as well as medication expenses are covered by the state for all three studied groups.
We realise that this assumption is disputable.
Our knowledge of renal function decline in the aging population is disputable, as it is based on equations that are not validated in an aged population, and on the use of serum creatinine for these equations.
