debatable question
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debatable
adjective
uk/dɪˈbeɪ.tə.bəl/us/dɪˈbeɪ.t̬ə.bəl/
not clear or certain because different people may have ...
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question
noun
uk/ˈkwes.tʃən/us/ˈkwes.tʃən/
a sentence or phrase used to find ...
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I am not absolutely clear whether that is a fair principle or not; it is adebatablequestion, anyway.
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Whether we should recognise him or not is adebatablequestion, but in any case we have to recognise the facts.
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I think that is a verydebatablequestion.
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There is the moredebatablequestion, whether it is right in principle.
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Whether this is exactly the moment to bring forward a motion for active movement, is to my mind a verydebatablequestion.
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I come now to a moredebatablequestion—the age of directors.
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There is no list of crimes, and it is adebatablequestionwhether a list should be incorporated in the scheme itself.
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It is a very serious anddebatablequestionwhether this theory of anonymity is right.
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Thedebatablequestionis how far a disarmament plan can be carried out without any political settlements.
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This is a verydebatablequestion, upon which we could spend a lot of time.
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I am sure that it is a highlydebatablequestionhow far sins are to be treated as crimes.
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I do not propose to spend time upon thedebatablequestionof ancillary workers.
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It is a moredebatablequestionbut it is more easily answered because there are various ways of dealing with the predator fox.
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It is adebatablequestionand one of balance of advantage, when we have a ship of 20,000 tons with about 1,000 men in it.
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That seems to be adebatablequestion.
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I come to the second part of my remarks which deals with the much more difficult and much moredebatablequestionof what remedy can be applied.
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There has aways been a certain amount of doubt, and it has been adebatablequestionas to the length of time that infection may hang about hay and straw.
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That is raising adebatablequestion.
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That is an exceedinglydebatablequestion.
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Whether that is desirable or not is adebatablequestion, but at the moment the rentiers, and also a large number of wage-earners, are robbing the rest of the community.
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