(a.) Capable of being argued; admitting of debate.
Example Sentences:
(1) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
(2) Ukip and the Greens are beneficiaries of this new political reality – as, arguably, is the SNP as it prepares to invade Labour’s heartland in Scotland next May.
(3) Hitchcock's attempts to keep Hedren in a gilded cage arguably ruined her career.
(4) benj67 asks: How do you continue to justify continued your role in financing the Canadian tar sands, arguably a greater crime than the Libor scandal?
(5) Goalkeeper Pepe Reina had arguably his worst season at Liverpool in 2011-12 and Rodgers may be tempted to bring Michel Vorm with him from Swansea City.
(6) Like low blood pressure after a heart attack, then, cheap oil should arguably be regarded not as a sign of rude health, but rather as a consequence of malaise.
(7) With its huge corps of jihadists hardened by years of fighting in Kashmir, it is arguably too big to confront at a time when Pakistan is battling the TTP.
(8) Arguably the national interest would have been better served if some of that dividend cash had been diverted to research that would produce new technologies, and new jobs, 10 years from now.
(9) She [McSally] has got a lot more fire in her belly than Ron does.” Latino community Some 100 miles north, on the outskirts of Tucson, Barber’s middle-of-the road positioning is beginning to alienate an arguably even more crucial voting block.
(10) Mood Indigo (18 July) Arguably the most French movie ever made, Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou are quite adorable as fairy tale lovers in Michel Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's Froth on the Daydream.
(11) Picking positives from a third successive league loss, the first time Chelsea have endured that since Gianluca Vialli’s stewardship, must have felt onerous even if Willian was excellent once again and Eden Hazard – for all that he has gone 1,375 minutes without a Premier League goal – arguably produced his best performance of the season.
(12) His seventh goal of the season was arguably his most important.
(13) The name may have changed, but the play and many of its leading characters remain the same – arguably the most brutal and tragic situation anywhere in the world during the last 20 years.
(14) While the ice’s extent is readily visible from satellites, ice thickness has been more difficult to measure, and it is arguably the more important dimension in measuring the volume of ice being lost.
(15) Impressively, David Axelrod left the White House and actually managed to find the only place on earth arguably more devoted to Barack Obama.
(16) Alastair Campbell, who, as director of communications at Number 10, arguably faced similar unpopularity issues, insists that Kennedy remains unfazed.
(17) The right is very flexible on industrial action: in the 80s striking miners were characterised as violent and feckless, despite being unarmed against mounted police and arguably the opposite of feckless – battling to keep backbreaking jobs.
(18) Paterson’s contribution is to identify the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott , and the Canadian premier, Stephen Harper , who have arguably done more harm to the living planet than anyone else alive, as champions of environmental protection .
(19) He called on Lib Dem MPs, who he claimed had "arguably committed electoral fraud of a sort", to be lobbied as part of the drive to shift the political debate.
(20) However, the ONS survey does not include group personal pensions or stakeholder pensions, which many firms brought in as a replacement for their final salary arrangements, so arguably does not provide the complete picture.
Unarguable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The importance of the synovial APC in determining the synovial immune response is unarguable but the exact mechanisms are unclear.
(2) And the result is, unarguably, a significant advance, in terms of realism, on its celebrated public information predecessor : Women, Know your Limits!, in which the woman character's principal contribution to a political debate is the highly unlikely – given not a single cat is in evidence – "I do love little kittens."
(3) The euro crisis brought Merkel to the fore as unarguably the most powerful politician in Europe.
(4) These rights seem clear and unarguable and are largely enacted in policies and services for children living in Australia.
(5) At the court of appeal in London on Wednesday, Lord Justice Hughes, Mr Justice Treacy and Mr Justice Blake rejected his application for permission to appeal and said the proposed grounds were "unarguable".
(6) In extreme cases, such as mentally defective persons, the consent-giver is unarguably incompetent to directly exercise autonomy and a substitute consent-giver or decision-maker is required.
(7) "Although it was not linked with to any real person when written, the committee believed that the song had clearly and unarguably gained association with Lady Thatcher."
(8) Credit for inventing trip-hop, one of the most influential musical genres of the 1990s, cannot be allotted to just one person, but Jonny Dollar, who has died of cancer aged 45, was unarguably one of its main architects.
(9) Social mobility sounds unarguable, but like so many other ideas that are apparently self-evident – the primacy of the "hard-working family", the ubiquity of "generations of worklessness" – its apparent simplicity is a cover.
(10) Leo Hollis, author of Cities Are Good For You , says the one unarguably positive achievement of smart city-style thinking in modern times is the train indicator boards on the London Underground.
(11) But once things quieten down, he sketches out a portrait of modern society that often sounds unarguable.
(12) Climate campaign petition Introducing the campaign, editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger wrote : “This [campaign] will almost certainly be won in time: the physics is unarguable.
(13) Brazilian health authorities subsequently downplayed the significance of the sale of contaminated blood in HIV transmission, and likewise ignored the rising rates of AIDS among Brazil's one unarguable majority group: the poor.
(14) And while some politicians say this takes the conversation beyond class – that class is fixed, whereas cycles of deprivation caused by neglect are alterable – it is unarguable that this scrutiny would never extend to the middle class.
(15) The chain has had an unarguably beneficial effect on prices.
(16) The case for having such a post in government, going beyond the brief of an equalities minister, seems to me urgent and unarguable.
(17) The very people who had created the Labour movement and who had given it a voice and unarguable moral force throughout the 20th century were watching the dismantling of the communities that had shaped them.
(18) Our NHS Confederation Patients as Partners programme is starting to show how we can do this and the evidence is becoming unarguable.
(19) According to legal documents related to the case it added: “It is unarguable that at the relevant time (May 2015) the school was required as part of its safeguarding responsibilities to be aware of the dangers of radicalisation.
(20) The deputy prime minister not only believes the moral case for doing this is overwhelming, he also thinks the political case for action is unarguable as well.