(v. i.) Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions.
(v. i.) Disputatious; contentious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Various metabolites of etoposide and teniposide have been identified but their detection and quantitation are disputed.
(2) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
(3) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(4) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(5) The cost-cutting shakeup is being overseen by NHS England, but is already sparking a series of local political battles over the future of services, and exposes the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to fresh criticism after his controversial role in the junior doctors dispute.
(6) Buckingham Palace was drawn into the dispute when it was revealed that Pownall had sought advice from the Lord Chamberlain, a key officer in the royal household, on the potential misuse of the portcullis emblem due to it being the property of the Queen.
(7) All have territorial disputes with Beijing over the South China Sea , a route for about $4.5tn (£3.4tn) in trade that the US is concerned China wants to fully control.
(8) Xu, the ABP chairman, disputed any claims of impropriety, and said his company went through a “robust and thorough” tender process.
(9) The calls were organised after the administration unsuccessfully asked FBI officials to dispute the accuracy of stories, the Post said.
(10) Australian Border Force staff involved in a dispute over pay and conditions have been stood down without pay in an attempt to head off industrial action.
(11) Nguyen Van Hai criticised the government for its handling of tensions with China over disputed islands in the South China Sea.
(12) This weekend a new dispute has erupted over government proposals to hive off child protection services to companies such as Serco and G4S ; perhaps the ministers and officials behind those plans should look at the case of Sana when they come to make their final decision on the future of another vulnerable section of the population.
(13) A custody or visitation dispute occurred in 12 (39%) of 31 sexual abuse complaints lodged against a parent.
(14) It is unclear if the steps against Australian advisers have any connection to the Manus dispute.
(15) During a time of ongoing industrial action in response to a continuing position of contractual imposition, there is obvious and significant discontent amongst the junior doctor workforce.” Junior doctors are only willing to support the review after the current industrial dispute is resolved, the statement ends.
(16) The role of the macrophage in destruction of virulent treponemes is disputed.
(17) The Cabinet Office review was presented at the weekend as an exercise largely focused on the Unite union's strategy of leverage , a form of protest outside the homes of senior executives involved in industrial disputes.
(18) Construction of the academy was delayed over a dispute between the Raising Malawi charity and villagers who claimed they were not adequately compensated for land.
(19) However, certain principles should not be disputed, since nowadays there is hardly any doubt as to their validity.
(20) Palmer sought to clarify his statements on Tuesday, and said they were aimed at the company he is currently locked in a dispute with, and not the broader Chinese population.
Unanswerable
Definition:
(a.) Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument.
Example Sentences:
(1) An array of polling proves that the 50p rate is unanswerably popular: at the time it was introduced, Populus reckoned that 57% of people were in favour, as against only 22% against; and a subsequent poll by YouGov found that keeping the 50p rate would appeal to 88% of uncommitted voters.
(2) Although consultation, as an activity for intervention, has achieved considerable popularity among human service professionals and figures prominently in current federal mental health legislation, a basic question still unanswerable is, "Does it work?"
(3) Bruce Crawford, the cabinet secretary for strategy in the Scottish government, said it had received an "unanswerable mandate" to stage the referendum at a time of its choosing, "while the Lib Dems lost every … seat in mainland Scotland".
(4) But voters in 31 states awarded Trump outright victory, and he steadily amassed an unanswerable lead.
(5) Right from the off, when the chancellor's wheeze emerged on the Tory conference platform, it has been sustained by two rhetorical questions that sound unanswerable – why should anyone not working bring in more than the typical £26,000 wage?
(6) If we can hit the commission's trajectory simply by staying in neutral then the case for stepping up a gear and aiming for 30% is now unanswerable."
(7) The movie might not have continued to inspire this level of devotion without its central, unanswerable mystery about the cause of the time loop; other Hollywood fantasies provide explanations for their supernatural events.
(8) From that perspective, the case for GM crops is unanswerable.
(9) Long enough for me to realise that was an unanswerable, probably insulting question.
(10) JR: I suppose the big question at this point – and maybe it's an unanswerable question – is this: would the voices have got so aggressive and frightening if you'd never told your friend, and never seen that psychiatrist, and never been diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'?
(11) "The case is now unanswerable," said Ruth Davis, chief policy adviser at Greenpeace .
(12) Throw in cuts to in-work benefits, attacks on pensions and VAT rises, and the rationale for workers to fight back is surely unanswerable.
(13) He talked of the awful uncertainty of hindsight; of the unanswerable question of whether they, his parents, could have done more to help; whether should they have intervened or left Martin, by then in his 20s, to make his own decisions.
(14) "With this resignation the argument for a general election has gone from being strong and powerful to completely unanswerable.
(15) Every question they asked of City was unanswerable during those opening 45 minutes.
(16) Like the poet said: “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” Really important photographs tell us something that we didn’t know, or didn’t want to know, or wish were not true, in urgent, unanswerable images.
(17) A cousin in Balham introduced him to jazz for the first time – the "unanswerable sound", he called it.
(18) Whether CEA saves lives is probably unanswerable, but as a skin cover it may reduce incidence of burn wound sepsis.
(19) And a spokesperson for the Sham Legion said: “The question about De Mistura’s ceasefire plan is unanswerable at the moment because of the ongoing battles in Aleppo Northern Countryside.
(20) I confess I don't dare guess at the answer to that, and it's probably unanswerable, but it's a key question to get right, for the sake of the future.