Sentence examples for an elusive force from inspiring English sources

Georgians hope that this might lead to Russia's easing its visa requirements and reducing its influence on Georgia's own separatist statelets, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.Yet as this week's incursion into Ingushetia showed Chechen rebels are an elusive force, whether in towns, forests or mountains.

But it was a shortage of this elusive force, largely unknown and unappreciated by the general public but critical to the operation of the nation's electrical grid, that experts now say probably set off the largest blackout in North American history on Aug. 14.

It is in the process of transforming itself into a more mobile, flexible and elusive force than ever before.

In both wars, our enemy was only sometimes a conventional army; as often, if not more so, it was an elusive guerrilla force that was frequently indistinguishable from the civilian population.

Maric used to play keyboards in Martland's band, and was there to join old colleagues for Horses of Instruction (1994-5), ofe of Martland's hallmark works, which takes its title from William Blake ("The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction") and its raucous energy from an elusive, combustive force accessible only to the composer.

Martens's real subject of investigation is what he calls "the logic," a term used to describe the elusive forces that govern an authoritarian state.

Being born and dying prove elusive, forcing us to infer things about them from watching others.

However, a new study by Lechner et al (2009) has defined the developmental acquisition of mechanosensitivity by DRG neurons and, by the use of a new mRNA expression screen, concluded that we almost certainly need to move beyond ASICs and TRP channels in our search for the elusive force-transducing ion channels of this system.

Presidential mojo is an elusive and ephemeral force that flows from many sources.

Yet they face an elusive foe.

In this exhibition Bedford focuses on an elusive moment where forces collide and become ungraspable through distance - the moment when a storm gathers and unleashes its first raw energy or when emotions collide and trigger powerful charges.