open to debate

“There are some things in the law that are open to debate and reasonable disagreements and others that are not. This one is not. Every method of interpretation of the law, whether it is text or history or precedent, all is devastating to Judge Cannon’s decision.”

In the end, the NTP report leaves much of the fluoridation question open to debate, although it at least reaffirms that fluoride use is good for your teeth.

Whether ghosts actually exist in the historic 131-year-old downtown hotel filled with grand marble staircases and gold-leaf frames is open to debate, but Betts wasn’t about to take a chance that they do.

Asked repeatedly if he agreed that the cap caused harm, Mr McFadden said it was "open to debate".

Mr. Trump’s lawyers had claimed that certain phrases in the text of the law — for instance, its requirement that prosecutors prove defendants took “unauthorized possession” of documents “relating to the national defense” — were so ambiguous and open to debate as to be unenforceable.