How To Use Contestable In A Sentence
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What is uncontestable is that he is an honest player and, in the present climate, he accepts that is crucial.
Times, Sunday Times
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So that deciding contestable moral questions by reference to what any particular person would think about them loses its validity.
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Some courts treat incontestability as creating a rebuttable presumption of strength, but the analysis should be separate: "there is no apparent reason that the incontestable status of a mark should automatically translate into a well-known mark.
Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log
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Knowledge is particular and perspectival, and as such is always contestable.
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Sounds came at length -- harsh and startling; -- the unmistakable note of the jezail; answering shots from his own men; -- proofs incontestable that a sharp engagement was in progress up above.
Captain Desmond, V.C.
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Now, there are some interesting restrictions on English reduplication, but the plain fact of it is incontestable (at least in every North American dialect I've ever come across).
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Except that we received much more challenging and contestable papers that opened up the question of culture by showing it rather than saying it.
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Besides this diplomatical dignitary and his wife, we had two American gentlemen of more than average intelligence, who related wonderful things of the 'spiritual manifestations' (so called), incontestable things, inexplicable things.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Notice that, for him, it's just a fact, entirely incontestable, that there's no evidence againstthe Standard Narrative of 9/11; and so he doesn't even think of actually contending withthe evidence, but urges that it be "debunked" covertly -- and pre-emptively, so that thepublic never gets to hear about it, and discuss it for themselves.
Obama's Info Chief advocates Disinformation and Domestic Covert Ops
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The show's creator, Marc Cherry, appeared to admit one of the incontestable truths about TV — "The only thing harder than creating a hit show is knowing when to end it" — saying he was afraid the show would "drift away into nothing" if allowed to continue indefinitely.
Critic's TCA Notebook: That's a Wrap
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However, matters of clarity are, ironically, often contestable.
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But it's incontestable that if it was improved, people would stay longer and spend more money.
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This is both inconsistent with my sense (bolstered by my reading in marketing literature) that consumers do care about whether mistakes are honest, negligent, or intentional and also at least contestable enough to be inappropriate for a motion to dismiss.
Red and green lights for traffic false advertising claims
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Almost any answer to such questions is as contestable as any other.
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In that discussion, I also explained that if they desired they could elect for non-contestable scrummages.
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Romantic appeal aside, many of Mitchell's claims are contestable, and deserve to be challenged.
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And since new entry is easy and cheap - since the market is contestable - the limit price is not that high above the competitive price.
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The fact is that the policy advice I provide is now contestable.
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Whether this story makes sense is contestable.
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The proposition is incontestable yet incompletely enounced.
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At present, research funding is contestable, allocated on a ‘winner take all’ basis with a five-year lifespan.
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incontestable" second position and was the only "threat" to complete power domination by the ANC.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Can a will be uncontestable?
Times, Sunday Times
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The latter, in particular, requires the often highly contestable question of sizing up the situation in Christian terms.
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Policing is becoming not only central to our understanding of citizenship, it is becoming a contestable political issue as never before.
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The rationale for the government's proposed change, however, is incontestable.
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Firstly, there is a contestable question of fact about historic significance.
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Viennese authorities insisted Adele's will was uncontestable.
Maria Altmann, who won return of Klimt portrait seized by Nazis, dies at 94
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Square one -- in all its recalcitrant glory -- belligerent and incontestable.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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We had incontestable proof of her innocence.
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In the realm of microphysics, where we have strong (but still contestable) evidence of indeterminism, our ordinary causal notions do not easily apply.
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At the same time, some feminists have sought to impose a particular social vision, even though their own views are highly controversial and contestable.
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Its benefits have been so incontestable that in the five millennia since the advent of the written word numerous poets and writers have extolled its virtues.
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To this tradition, he counterposes an alternative way of understanding the past - as that which we can ‘feel behind us as an incontestable acquisition’.
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Every thing concurred to signalize this, that God's name (that is, his incontestable sovereignty, his irresistible power, and his inflexible justice) might be declared throughout all the earth, not only to all places, but through all ages while the earth remains.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
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Whether the numbers would add up if it were introduced unamended is contestable.
Times, Sunday Times
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My job then was to get the best offer possible, and 850p was uncontestable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Regardless of whether you believe global warming to be a threat to the survival of humanity or simply the product of another wave in the world's oscillating climate, the problem of pollution remains incontestable.
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Some courts treat incontestability as creating a rebuttable presumption of strength, but the analysis should be separate: “there is no apparent reason that the incontestable status of a mark should automatically translate into a well-known mark.”
Archive 2009-04-01
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This much is incontestable - in the last decade (I won't go further back) we have seen the emergence in Ireland of what Ms Flynn rightly described as a ‘tabloid culture’.
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What Masnick spectacularly fails to see is that even if this were true, even if copyright legislation became so wildly draconian, in the cloud-cuckoo-land of an imagined future, as to render all new creative work open to challenge, all those existing in-copyright works they were purportedly plagiarising would be themselves contestable.
Archive 2009-02-01
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The combined assault of the Liberals and the Socialists upon "clericalism" fell flat, and against the Government's contention that the extraordinary and incontestable prosperity of the country merited a continuance of
The Governments of Europe
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Yet, my belief remained firm and incontestable about the pertinence of the idiom ‘Honesty is the best policy’.
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(Though I think this is a descriptive/nominative use, there is arguably a doctrinal reason to stick with descriptiveness: some of LEYE’s marks are incontestable and nominative fair use is not a specifically listed defense to incontestability; however, courts have used nominative fair use to find no confusion as a matter of law, so that’s not a huge barrier to applying the doctrine to incontestable marks.)
Archive 2009-08-01
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If argument did not deliver incontestable conclusions, where was one to go?
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A perfectly contestable industry is one which, in addition to free entry, is also characterised by completely free exit.
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He is wrong in believing that what is contestable is ‘knowledge’, and in failing to acknowledge that much knowledge is incontestable.
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However much we are forced to recognize that reformism sometimes manifests itself as a sane rebellion against the apriorism of orthodox Marxist dogma, and as a scientific reaction against the phraseology of pseudorevolutionary stump-orators, it is nevertheless incontestable that reformism has a logical and causal connection with the insipid and blasé sociolism and with the decadent tendencies which are so plainly manifest in a large section of the modern bourgeois literary world.
Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
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But, on the other hand, in fully adopting the old scholastic creationism, he supposes a special creation of the _soul_, a separation of body and soul, which in this form is very contestable, and might better have been replaced by a separation of natural and rational or of physico-psychical and pneumatical parts of his being.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
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Nevertheless, that soccer as a global phenomenon has yet to eradicate what was once called ‘The English Disease’ remains incontestable.
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The market for the food consumer’s dollar seems to be highly contestable, even when only a small handful of retailers survive the cost competition.
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I see it, in a democracy, as about the process of democratic discourse and contestable ideas - whereas others see it as about being in power.
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It is in part because of the existence of Community schemes for regional assistance, and because the proper boundary of regional assistance is itself a contestable issue.
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They were all going down together, into the dark… Just as soon as enough major players decided to contest the incontestable, and put the simulations to the audit of war.
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Public services have become contestable in an open market and many functions have been outsourced or are now delivered in partnership with the private sector.
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Two is uncontestable, which is why you don’t contest it; Ace was positively salivating over his description of gay anal sex.
Matthew Yglesias » Stay Classy, Conservative Blogosphere
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Force majeure, fault of the victim, intention of third party, contentment of the victim are contestable causes to quote by the liability body.
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This is a statement about the essential nature of all works of art, that they are all necessarily contestable, because this is how art is made.
Creative Control - Part 2
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I take my stand, therefore, upon this incontestable fact, that the man of leisure becomes daily more reluctant to undergo fatigue, that he eagerly seeks for what he calls the comfortable, that is to say for every means of sparing himself the play and the waste of the organs.
Glorifying terrorism
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This is the so-called contestable markets theory, pioneered by economist William Baumol, which suggests that even if one firm dominates an industry, it still must behave as if it had competition, because if its acts greedily in hiking prices and profits—it soon will.6 And firms even collaborate with competitors, legally, by making their products sufficiently different from others to build separate markets, customer loyalty, and demand, to diminish competition.
Executive Economics
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What Masnick spectacularly fails to see is that even if this were true, even if copyright legislation became so wildly draconian, in the cloud-cuckoo-land of an imagined future, as to render all new creative work open to challenge, all those existing in-copyright works they were purportedly plagiarising would be themselves contestable.
Creative Control - Part 2
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Although provincial acting is not of the high class which conceals the art, this man's look beside him and behind him at vacant seats had incontestable evidence in support of his declaration, that the lady and gentleman had gone on by themselves: the phaeton was a box of flown birds.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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Some courts treat incontestability as creating a rebuttable presumption of strength, but the analysis should be separate: “there is no apparent reason that the incontestable status of a mark should automatically translate into a well-known mark.”
Archive 2009-04-01
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In principle, well-being is a contestable good.
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Cultural studies also underestimate the importance of racism which is an incontestable fact in the lives of many black people.
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In the realm of microphysics, where we have strong (but still contestable) evidence of indeterminism, our ordinary causal notions do not easily apply.
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Together, the president and vice-president (or just ‘the presidency’) would be able to act without fear or favour, and would possess an incontestable mandate.
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Incontestable clause astrict the insurer's right based on strict obligations to disclose, to protect the policy holder's legitimate interests based on expectation and trust.
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In theology practically every statement on a major issue is bound to be contestable and controversial, and God is the biggest issue of all.
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It does have a number of contestable issues in it, and the member has alerted the House to some of them.
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Now, there are some interesting restrictions on English reduplication, but the plain fact of it is incontestable (at least in every North American dialect I've ever come across).
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What counts in analogical comparison is, within limits, inherently contestable.
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His failure to take consistent foreign policy positions, though more recent, is incontestable.
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It is unequivocal and incontestable, and what has happened?
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Bourdieu suggest that the culture arises out of dissenting claims to universality, which might be characterized alternately as "absolute judgement" — Bourdieu's phrase for the promise of having the final say in contestable matters of cultural relevance — or, as Kant puts it in the Dialectic of Aesthetic Judgment ( '56), "a hope of coming to terms.
Article Abstracts
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I'm the new owner of this house, with clear and incontestable title.
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Square one -- in all its recalcitrant glory -- belligerent and incontestable.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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In Victoria, which has already committed to "contestable" funding, there was talk of
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To postulate the reality of the latter is in fact very dubious, because it relies on a contestable empirical claim that simply cannot be sustained.
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If the amount of these matches is divisible by a certain number, such as 7 (which is said to be God's number), there is an incontestable argument that the Spirit of God is ever present in the text.
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While Khouri's mendacity is uncontestable, Australian filmmaker Anna Broinowski thankfully has more on her mind than simply debunking her subject in Forbidden Lie$.
Dan Lybarger: DVD Review: Forbidden Lie$
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Incontestable clause astrict the insurer's right based on strict obligations to disclose, to protect the policy holder's legitimate interests based on expectation and trust.
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He added that they were within their rights to do so because they have an "incontestable" registered trademark.
EphBlog
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The exam should make that relation very clear and uncontestable.
Rank-order Multiple Choice, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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But, commensurately, we have a high responsibility to science itself as an open system of contestable evidence.
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There are certain incontestable themes in his work.
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The proof was incontestable – he had no choice but to admit defeat and plead guilty.
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Complete is a surrogate superlative, the latest tactic, a piece of discursive dexterity in the sometimes tedious Messi or Ronaldo debate -- presented like it was some kind of incontestable fact.
SI.com
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The real lesson is that the euro-bailout party line is still treated as uncontestable, even in a party that calls itself liberal.
Challenging Frau Merkel
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The plaintiffs are claiming the the Bush Administration is ignoring "incontestable" evidence of global warming by instituting more stringent carbon emissions on power companies generating plants.
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
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Dispute the numbers, but the big picture is incontestable.
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Does that not amount to the Minister making a conclusive and incontestable decision about a matter of law?
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She says the assumptions of the rational actor model underlying classical contract theory are ‘arguably contestable.’
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The Press Complaints Commission rules were scrupulously observed; the only minor shown had his face obscured; and the story was of incontestable public interest.
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While Khouri's mendacity is uncontestable, Australian filmmaker Anna Broinowski thankfully has more on her mind than simply debunking her subject in Forbidden Lie$.
Dan Lybarger: DVD Review: Forbidden Lie$
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The big news -- uncontestable -- is Nancy Pelosi will be forced to hand over the gavel of the House of Representatives to John Boehner.
Michael Russnow: The GOP Won Big: But the Media Has Characterized it as More Than it Really Is
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The market for the food consumer’s dollar seems to be highly contestable, even when only a small handful of retailers survive the cost competition.
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Four days ago Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari recalled the incontestable fact that "The terrorists of today were the heroes of yesteryear until 9/11 occurred ....
AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09
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Although the definitions of "large" or "landing" are contestable, that is totally untrue.
Salon
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'It may not be at present a question of much interest to the British public, because no such large decisive experiment as was proposed has yet been tried as to the value and attainableness of the object; but its magnitude and importance are incontestable, the whole extent of peat soil in Ireland exceeding, as it is confidently pronounced,
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
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Where exactly these sites are located on the stage is seldom clear, though it does seem incontestable that, while they are associated morally with darkness and vice and sometimes physically with sunlessness, they can only serve their purpose if they are clearly visible to the audience.
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But Pawel's story took as a given one crucial but contestable assertion: that today's farm workers are organizable.
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Peter Holder, 44, confessed to the attempted rape in the face of "incontestable" DNA evidence.
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And I also think it is incontestable that Protestantism has been an overwhelming influence in creating the modern world.