All paradigm-shifting art styles have debatable beginnings: there are precursor figures who point the way and then a next wave young enough to swallow it whole and make an actual style of it.
Intensive management has debatable impacts on plant species diversity with no consistent predictions from existing models and a general lack of long-term responses to treatments.
I could see Stewart replicating Franken's successful run either in New Jersey, where Stewart grew up, or in New York, where he was born and has lived -- and would thus be less likely to be called a carpetbagger than two other notable New York senatorial candidates, Robert Kennedy and Hillary Clinton, who were both elected despite having debatable New York cred.
But by 1938, its level of originality had become debatable.
Such subjective historicising may seem an imposition, but Northumberland had been "debatable land" ever since the Norman invasion drove the native culture underground, creating a thriving oral tradition epitomised by the border ballads, but destroying any continuous literary tradition.
The original design of the Black has become debatable.
At the beginning of the epidemic, that might have been debatable.
They favour spending more money on schools and teachers' salaries, but fear that competition from outside the system would undermine integration.Both arguments, however, have a debatable premise in common.
If it has become "debatable" whether "you can have a successful bar mitzvah" without hired dancers to establish "an image of, quote unquote, cool" ("Job Description: Life of the Party," news article, May 30), it only goes to show how tragically far the concept of "bar mitzvah" has drifted from its true meaning in some Jewish circles.
When news broke of an extra £2 billion a year, it seemed likely that at least some of this new funding would be reheated from past announcements, or funnelled into business R&D tax credits and loans, which have a debatable impact on the "real" research and innovation economy.
