The original design of the Black has become debatable.
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.
But by 1938, its level of originality had become debatable.
As America's air has grown cleaner, the balance of benefits over costs for each new tightening of the regulations has become more debatable.
In many cases, Dr. Gill said, when and whether to treat has become as legitimately debatable as what treatment to use.
In Tehran, Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned against "provocative" remarks on the nuclear crisis, although whether he meant remarks like the ones for which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has become known is debatable.
Increasingly, such separation into various sub-types of till has become, however, highly debatable and tenuous.
Their meaning, it seems, has become more, not less, debatable with the passage of time.
Feminist porn is no longer a debatable reality; it has become a matter of discussing how it will be organized, and who will get paid, and for doing what.
Determination of a "scale unit" to help understand ecological processes has become one of the important and most debatable problems in recent years.
But as Prague sweeps up the shattered shop window glass left over from the violence-plagued meeting of global aid agencies last week, one thing has become clear: The old way of thinking is now economically debatable and politically untouchable.
