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Now, astronomers say they have found the first conclusive evidence for one of these elusive objects at the fringe of a distant galaxy.

She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name.

This elusive, almost invisible quality was more than a mere habit. Self- effacement was the essence of his technique.

What if I said I could capture that elusive terrorist, Bin Laden?

After a time the enemy was baying across all south Kiangsi, hunting for the elusive Reds.

You're flying solo in a hostile environment, trying to take out one of the world's most elusive terrorists.

Accountability is something that every manager wants and expects from his or her employees but is often elusive to obtain.

The elusive Irhabi007 turned out to be the 22-year-old son of a Moroccan tourism board official and a student of information technology.

If mumblingly mentioning is elusive, the bamboo gentleman explores to go into a bosom and touches a fine jade decanter.

The elusive word is on the tip of my tongue, let me look it up in the dictionary.

And individuality, he agrees, is often elusive.

And given Ferrari's recent upturn in performance, they may just be able to help Kimi to that elusive first world title!

"So far, the greatest achievement with dark energy is giving it a name, " Turner said of the elusive force.

It is not much of a secret that most people would prefer their teeth embodied the classic pearly white appearance that can be a bit elusive.

This elusive creature is rarely seen, but is often heard in the form of its infamous, blood-curdling screams.

With such a huge range of nations in the world, the question of whether there is a best place to live seems both simple and elusive.

"I love you" does not always have the SamE meaning, and this, too, should tell us something about the elusive nature of love.

You could turn up a something special, like the elusive Bigfoot Ant, North America's rarest ant species.

In a rare and unusually detailed statement published in four languages, the elusive leader repeated his call for foreign forces to leave.

However, there are too many very complex, volatile gas breakdown process in human ESD field, some experimental phenomena is often elusive.

But since the planets and notches do not come with labels, this has proved to be an elusive conclusion.

Although the precise mechanism of headache pain is elusive, plenty of things seem to exacerbate headaches in susceptible people.

"Sugar Daddy" Search: Some women continue their search for that elusive "sugar daddy" even after they marry men who do not fit that ideal.

He was a fine, handsome youth, smart, sensitive, tenacious, and bold, but with something in him that was elusive, dark, wild.

Consensus is elusive. "We've been talking about this for years, " he said.

For decades, there has been a stalemate: two peoples with legitimate aspirations, each with a painful history that makes compromise elusive.

The last thing the country needs is to be distracted from its practical problems by the quest for an elusive greatness.

What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name.

But agreements on key issues, such as how much rich nations are willing to pay poor nations to cut their emissions remain elusive.

Just how much cosmic rays affect cloud formation has, however, remained elusive.

Mr Hung is one of a handful of Vietnamese aficionados trying to revive tastes for this epicurean and elusive beverage.

Elusive, mysterious, no one ever knew when they would see her next, or how much she would weigh.

A more elusive goal is the clarification of the complexity of a dynamic cellular response to a drug through mathematical modelling.

For the next 70 years he pursued ever more elusive numbers, estimating GDP for a growing range of countries over a lengthening span of time.

The CMS experiment is one of two geared for a variety of tasks, including finding the elusive Higgs boson.

The idea of having it all ? a great job and a loving family, a toned body and a sane mind ? is as appealing as it is elusive.

The "revenue synergies" promised in cross-border mergers have proved particularly elusive, given the stubbornly local nature of regulation.

Moreover, Mr Obama's most coveted legislative aim, the creation of a sort of national health service, remains elusive.

Although Mr. Murdoch, the chief of the News Corporation, has long been a fixture at the retreat, he has been notably elusive this week.

Social welfare and security of these migrant workers for the elusive brothers, do not even think.

Green grass, dazzling tree, Xuan pavilion Changting, Yishanbangshui . . . I do not know when it will become an elusive aspiration.

On the surface, he appeared open, simple and frank, yet he defied analysis and his whole character was elusive.

Trying to pin down exactly when the contractors would be done remodeling the house , Nancy was frustrated by their elusive replies .

Astronomers think the object shown in this Chandra X-ray Observatory image (in box) may be an elusive intermediate-mass black hole.

Yet even if perfect solutions are elusive, progress is possible. I felt that on this trip.

Peaceful contact proved elusive, but those encounters helped the agents stitch together a profile of a man with a calamitous past.

In both regions, the violence against civilians has been a consequence of military attempts to crush an elusive and ruthless rebel force.

Out on the river, Chinese fishermen zip around in speedboats, looking for the giant but elusive Amur sturgeon.

Laval's more recent pictures are dreamier and more elusive, beautiful in a painterly way; they seem to reveal hidden worlds.

Some of the lightest supersymmetrical particles could be the elusive dark matter that cosmologists have been hunting for since the 1930s.

The AP is pursuing plans that could be "game-changer" in the elusive quest for online revenue, he said.

The void is always elusive, having no opposite, there is nothing which excludes or opposes.

EVEN for the most dedicated shopper, finding just the right pair of shoes can be elusive.

The government is trying to foist its old notions of information control on a rapidly changing and elusive technology.

The search for an ideal drug combination that is effective, relatively free from side effects and easy to administer, has been elusive.

The reforms that might prevent this sort of chicanery will still be elusive.

For two long months I've stared at the humongous icon's elusive, gridded exterior and wondered what strange secrets wait inside.

This discovery could help researchers draw elusive cats out of their hiding places for the purpose of estimating endangered populations.

It is a small but perhaps we probably even have the desire to follow, the end is elusive, to its ranks condoned.

After baffling biologists for decades, the female orgasm has resisted yet another attempt to explain its elusive evolutionary origins.

These rich loved and trusted him because he was shy, comic, elusive, already in production, and because he was an unerring pilot fish.

The very stability the regime seeks will continue to be elusive until a peaceable solution can be found through dialogue.

In the case of politically inspired suicide, the motives are at once more obvious and more elusive.

No wonder that international trade negotiations break down and agreement on the best collective response to climate change remains elusive.

An encounter with an elusive Canada Lynx is said to be a rare privelege.

An encounter with an elusive Canada Lynx is said to be a rare privilege.

All the intangibles , the elusive dreams, the fire and breath that accompanies each song that you sing, streams in. The addiction.

But even the threat of it should spur innovation, and perhaps deliver to business students that most elusive of prizes: value for money.

I collapsed back onto my pillow, gasping, my head spinning. Something tugged at my memory, elusive, on the edges.

Hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC) is one of the most common malignant tumors, whose mechanism remains elusive.

It's a bit of a problem, sometimes do incredible things, let a person elusive, may really know it is it yourself!

Over the coming decade, several space-based missions have been planned to search for these elusive phenomena using interferometry equipment.

Although a solution at either end of the spectrum might sound good, the elusive answer will surely be much closer to the middle of the road.

As the body count of victims continues to increase, justice for these horrendous acts also remains elusive.

If the leak is very small and in an area you can't get at, around the evaporator for instance, they can be very elusive.

His dream of racial equality is still elusive , but no one did more to make it real .

Profits continue to remain elusive as the company expands its business world-wide.

Then in July, Apple said the elusive white phone was coming later that year.

The next time you catch yourself engaging in displacement activities, remember that there's a way to recover that elusive drive.

Yet growth still proved elusive. It took a buoyant world economy and a surge in commodity prices to procure it.

The availability of a greater variety of higher quality services may be the most elusive reason for family alienation.

The messages also help researchers learn more about this rare and elusive species.

As it is, of course, in his own sketchy paintings, where laden titles such as "Gas Chamber" explain elusive or banal images.

A longer-term objective, whose achievement has long proved elusive, is to determine where Marburg virus hides in nature between outbreaks.

Usually, this sort of measurement can be quite elusive because it can rarely be reduced to a quantifiable factor alone .

This elusive, almost invisible quality was more than a mere habit.

Meanwhile I was at leave to wander the bush and the hedgerows, keeping a wary eye out for my elusive beauty.

Yet, though various militants were captured or killed, Bin Laden remained so elusive that some began to think that he was dead.

Giggs has won just about all the game has to offer, but so far the PFA Player of the Year award has proved elusive.

But little is known about the arsonists . Apart from the fact that an experienced bushfire arsonist is an elusive culprit. . .

Don't assume that a good night's sleep is only a dream. If sleep remains elusive, ask your doctor about other treatment options.

Scientists offer a few theories as to why duplicative results may be so elusive.

But far higher in the atmosphere, is a much more elusive, much more exotic form of lightning.

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward.

ON FRIDAY afternoons, residents of Washington, DC, often find a clear route out of the city as elusive as a deal to cut the deficit.

"No, the safety first! " Haimo hung up the phone, feel Lijun indifference, very strange, thinking: this woman is really the elusive!

To a woman, the quintessential male is unknowable, elusive.

Effective, systematic software reuse continues to be an elusive goal for many organizations.

The methods that keep the ball in play are simple, but elusive until you uncover them for yourself.

Represents the prayer beads of elusive imperial sacrifices as an ornament, give prominence to human nature to truth, good and beauty pursue.

We live in a long night with no need to see things in detail since words and actions are constantly melting into elusive colors and sounds.

Sixteen years later, peace is still elusive in the Middle East (Rabin was assassinated and Arafat died of natural causes).

His mandate is to help Chinese auto companies 'find that elusive 'C' factor, ' he says.

Ah, like dragon's head but no tail, as if we are always elusive it change track.

"A collective decision to formally raise output targets looks likely to be elusive in June. "

But the real, comprehensive fiscal union needed to restore faith in the euro, as opposed to a few new rules, remains elusive.

Clouded leopards are the most elusive of all the big cats, which include lions, tigers, jaguars, snow leopards and normal spotted leopards.

But now that the elusive Salinger is gone, what willhappen to his iron-fisted control over his writings?

That man in so elusive that one might suspect him of being able to disappear into a fourth dimension.

It's already proven to be divisive along party lines, so finding that common ground may be elusive.

The experts stressed, however, that the evidence of a link remains elusive and more research is needed to further explore the possible risk.

Most dementias are missed for years as the symptoms can be elusive until considerable brain tissue is lost.

Ponce de Leon, in search of the elusive fountain of youth, was the first European to explore Florida.

After experiencing a traumatic event, most people will recover given time, but to a significant minority relief is elusive.

It depends on the student, his goals, his talents, his family, his connections, and even a bit on that elusive factor known as luck.

But "it is one of the most elusive and just mysterious creatures, " Mr. Inman added.

In the eyes of many, love is like the clouds of heaven like elusive.

Following your passion can be a tough thing. But figuring out what that passion is can be even more elusive.

When a program crashes due to corrupted data, the saboteur can be elusive.

With memory unreliable and biological markers elusive, diagnosis depends on clinical symptoms.

Instruments on the Herschel telescope, sensitive to infrared light, picked up small signatures of the elusive molecular oxygen.

Charisma is one of those very elusive qualities.

This compact show provides a quick but finely honed snapshot of a rapidly changing and often elusive China.

The question sounds straightforward, but systematic answers have proven remarkably elusive.

If anything, however, this just makes organisations search harder for the elusive connection between staff and customer happiness.

Men like to pursue an elusive woman, like a cake of wet soap in a bathtub even men who hate bath.

Highly specialized camera equipment captures the unique behaviors of some of the rainforest's most elusive animals and insects.

But the fact that judges will take into account the finalists' "elusive guru factor" in picking winners makes me queasy.

But those findings have come under debate, and definitive conclusions remain elusive.

Even in cases for which replication proves that an effect exists, confident localization of the causal variant often remains elusive.

Until recently, however, the identity of the molecular scissors that actually cut messenger RNA during RNAi has remained elusive.

With so many skills and techniques to be learned, confidence can be the most elusive.

For decades afterwards, the search of this elusive kingdom continued, until its very existence faded into myth.

The detector recently discovered evidence of elusive "excited" quarks , suggesting that quarks have even smaller constituent parts.

Even if the contents of the message remained elusive for decades, we would know that there was someone "intelligent" at the other end.

Disappointment at the frustration when the ideal would be to encourage him, but the ideal illusory, elusive.

But the legendary princess remains to be elusive as ever, and the king find themselves gradually lose our direction.

What I hoped to investigate in the project is what the transient and elusive might mean in architectural terms.

'It just seems normal to us, ' says Mrs. Lackey, 36, adding that hunting an elusive animal like Bubba can be extremely challenging.

Despite the release of numerous audiotapes in recent years, he has proved one of the most elusive fugitives ever.

John Rohrer, a district biologist for the Okanagan-Wenatchee National Forest, also employs dead deer heads to lure elusive wolverines.

The shy, quiet, dreamy and elusive friends of the past decade fall away, to be replaced by bright, sharp-minded types.

The optimal state of mind can be fleeting, maddeningly elusive.

True or the life of the elusive, with a total mystery has some people thinking repeatedly speculated repeatedly until one day suddenly.

To pursue a problem-free life is to run after an elusive fantasy, it is a waste of mental and physical energies.

But happiness is elusive to define, and money isn't the only thing that influences it.

instead, we had to peek through small openings and windows to get a hint of their elusive presence.

But a precise explanation for Peek's mix of abilities and disabilities remained elusive.

Despite ample investment, however, production costs remain high and commercialisation elusive.

It was a different dynamic when you're viewed as competition and profits are elusive.

Yet as familiar as these creatures are, a complete understanding of their origins has proved elusive.

A living wage remains an elusive dream for millions of workers on production lines around the world.

But a democratic dividend for the economy has been elusive, and so far matters have only become worse.

A storm is brewing round the scientists in line to win the Nobel prize for predicting the elusive particle.

But with the clock ticking towards another potential funding expiration, signs of compromise and progress remain elusive.

Other transformative learning scholars view this theory as an elusive concept.

Beast Tracking - Hunters can find and follow a wide variety of animal tracks, allowing them to locate their elusive prey with ease.

This combination of elusive and critical qualities in art is a rare trait, but one that offers allegorical richness and defies didacticism.

It is elusive to think that even a fraction of your business analysts will be able to master all these concepts.

Entrepreneurship remains an elusive commodity, as this gallery of distinct and notable practitioners makes clear.

Certainly one beneficiary of so much downtime is the elusive client.

If true, the theory provides a new indirect measurement of one of astronomy's most elusive entities.

This article examines how to generate such research in nursing and proposes that it is not as elusive as it first appears.

There are several potential issues that still remain elusive in investigating co- morbidities of these common chronic diseases.

One of the world's most rare and elusive cats, the Sunda clouded leopard of Malaysia, has been filmed up close.

The search for so-called "female Viagra, " has proved elusive though, with many drugs abandoned after showing lackluster results.

And he'll be doing everything he can to finally get his hands on the elusive European Cup.

Carmakers and other manufacturers will no longer extend credit (see article) and loans will become elusive and expensive.

However, despite that importance, high resolution live imagery of cell and vesicle interaction has remained elusive.

Until the unemployment rate recovers substantially, improvement will be elusive.

However, a fundamental clean-up will be elusive as long as some among officials in the top leadership are suspected of corruption.

Topursue a problem-free life is to run after an elusive fantasy, itis a waste of mental and physical energies.

The failure to believe in this dark stuff, the authors concluded, made "analysts predict crises that, for good reason, remain elusive" .

Immediate solutions for solving problems surrounding poverty remain elusive .

Although Gemini will always be elusive, challenging, and reluctant to engage in dramatic emotional scenes, she'll meet you halfway.

Tibetans marked the 50th anniversary of their exile this year, and a return to their homeland remains elusive.

Bubba, double the size of the average adult black bear, has proven remarkably elusive.

While quality is subjective and a definition elusive.

Maybe, but even if a bottom is near, the precise trigger for a sustained upswing remains elusive.

My physics teachers often use analogies to illustrate some of the more elusive concept.

The pictured critter was not even the elusive American crocodile, Crocodylus acutus.

A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use.

This column aims to explore that elusive juncture where design principles meet the requirements to solve real-world problems.

New technologies promise to solve this electronic puzzle; however, a completely fail-safe system remains elusive.

As in the West, China's obesity epidemic poses a considerable public health threat, but the means to tackle the problem remain elusive.

Drug resistance and relapse are two major causes for treatment failure of leukemia, but their mechanisms remain elusive.

But cross-selling, as it is known in bankers' jargon , is an elusive beast.

Today, that involves exploring the elusive interface between architecture and urbanism.

Young can, after all, be deployed as a secondary striker, a difficult and elusive opponent, finding space, accomplished in front of goal.

But all these measures require the same elusive ingredient: a stable government that controls its own territory and borders.

But now artificial intelligence experts say Lipson and Schmidt may have fulfilled the field's elusive promise.

Seismologists know where faults are, and can assess earthquake risk, but predicting specific quakes ahead of time has been an elusive goal.

Mountain gorillas are threatened by poaching and civil unrest, elusive and often unseen in their activities.

Immediate solutio for solving problems surrounding poverty remain elusive .

Whoever can discover the answer to this elusive question will have the key to writing their own great speeches.

A global accord on climate will prove elusive for some time to come. But that need not translate into international inaction.

This will allow the Tevatron accelerator in Illinois to continue its hunt for the elusive Higgs boson particle.

Even at the best of times, that balance is elusive.

But understanding the mechanics of how neuronal networks collaborate to allow such tasks has remained more elusive.

Interpol have searched all the corners of the earth for the elusive hijackers.

I was totally mixed up by his elusive and ambiguous remarks.

Carmakers and other manufacturers will no longer extend credit and loans will become elusive and expensive.

Each is impelled to delve back into the past, in search of explanation and also of an elusive original perfection.

So, Chuang Tzu's article was elusive, which was bound to be so.

A voluntary debt swap between Greece and its private sector creditors is elusive.

But the root of the problem in many places, often in seemingly pristine habitats , has remained elusive.

Recognising that consensus will be elusive, the ELCA's changes allow flexibility for congregations that disapprove.

His simple, elusive art style with magnificent artistic conception is worth learning by our modern print learners.

The Coens, so normally elusive, have let the mask slip a bit.

Although the number of species on the planet might seem an obvious figure to know, a way to calculate it with confidence has been elusive.

Once aboard, people sat quietly, gazing at their cellphones in hope of an elusive signal.

But some scientists doubt the reliability of the team's method for measuring the elusive substance.

Yet for all the admiration he attracts, many details of the preacher's life remain elusive.

The root problems of job losses and wage cuts persist, making a sustained U. S. housing recovery elusive.

The writer builds with words, and no builder uses a raw material more slippery and elusive and treacherous.

The most important kind of motion you can see is something coming at you, and this critical process has been elusive to us.

The promotions can produce an instant revenue boost, but profit can be elusive.

Investable opportunities may remain frustratingly elusive but the sector could soon explode into life.

Democracy in international relations remains elusive, and there are new manifestations of hegemonism and power politics.

Fiscal discipline is painful, unpopular and, in today's Washington, as elusive as the prosperity we once had.

For most people, however, deciding on the elusive perfect number can be tough.

Lastly among conventional holiday institutions is the elusive mistletoe.

Success will be elusive without greater efforts from Western well-wishers, never mind Afghanistan's leaders and the Pakistanis next door.

That worries traders as it suggests a bottom in prices remains elusive.

Relations with Pakistan, and its 180m people, are where improvement is most needed but where progress is most elusive.

"That was the elusive plant did. " Muras said mysteriously.

This elusive, endangered predator roams forests and swamps from Argentina to northern Mexico.

Either way, the new, open China can sometimes seem as elusive as the old, forbidden one.

The elusive, intangible connection that flows between appreciative fans and the artist is worth something.

It is indeed true that for many black Americans, such gains have proved elusive. The U. S.

Normally faint and elusive, the Jellyfish Nebula is caught in this alluring, false-color, telescopic view.

Another round of tax cuts would force the government to borrow but would be nearly certain to get elusive Republican votes.

The pursuit of happiness is a major goal in life, but "happiness" but is both elusive and indescribable things.

it gives the impression that an elusive aspect of behaviour can be pinned down.

Details of the content of the accord has proved elusive, given that few details were made public.

Silent and elusive, pumas are extremely rare in Minnesota; few Minnesotans have ever seen these large cats in the wild.

Richer consumers, meanwhile, can prove elusive creatures at home.

Rich earthy tannins together with blackberry and ripe plum characters give this wine an elusive balance.

Promoting and enabling these partnerships is necessary, as international agreement on greenhouse gas reductions remains elusive.

But such predictions are proving as elusive as the perfect weather forecast.

The elusive cats still roam the wilds of Central and South America, but there's little reliable data on their true numbers.

Caffeine ingestion can delay fatigue during exercise, but the mechanisms remain elusive.

They beckon from afar, rising dimly in the mists, an elusive challenge to the mathematical community.

These elusive data include the age and sex of those affected, and whether they are part of a risk group, such as being asthmatic.

wild cats rarely make good house pets . they are typically shy , retiring , elusive , nocturnal and often cantankerous.

Figuring out how to use leptin to help humans struggling with obesity has proven elusive.

Bad policies are continued for "patriotic" reasons, even when seeking a victory or success that's elusive.

The connection between state power and criminality is particularly elusive in Russia.

Try to catch the elusive charm of the original in translation.

One of the most elusive of all wild cats has been photographed deep in the jungle of Uganda.