And though its methods are disputable, few dispute the justice of its cause.
The Central Intelligence Agency has carried that line of argument even further, putting on its payroll some of the most disputable members of Mr. Karzai's government.
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.
Early Pythagorean achievements in mathematics are unclear and largely disputable, and the following is therefore a compromise between the widely divergent views of scholars.
Because Picardy was never unified in the feudal period, its boundaries are disputable.
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.
Moreover, the claim that economic interdependence automatically ameliorates the chances of conflict is disputable.
This is a disputable point – incomes have become slightly more equal in the past few years, while the evidence on the distribution of wealth is mixed – and the Prime Minister disputed it.
More disputable are those cases where the author shelters under a pseudonym in order to dodge a real or imagined prohibition on what they wish to say, because of who they are.
(Whether there was a more general westward diaspora of Magi, members of the Persian religious caste, is disputable).
These claims were disputable, but the great strength and wide geographical spread of communist organization was a fact.
