'an elusive task' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a task that is challenging or difficult to accomplish. Example: Writing my college essay was an elusive task, as I found it very hard to put my thoughts into words.
It had proved an elusive task.
But while Woods is used to finishing first, winning has been an elusive task for Flesch.
The accurate figure for Tompkinsville, of course, depends on pinning down exact neighborhood boundaries, which proves an elusive task.
Too much, because it requires persuasive visual analogies for the psychological content that he hears in the music, which proves an elusive task.
But finding a way to slide the right key into the correct hole is an elusive task that has only just begun, and will likely take several more years to pay off.
For a country twice world champions, proud exporters of football talent, it was not without frustration that even staying in the tournament past the quarter-finals had become an elusive task.
It is a depressing but still fascinating story of claim and counter-claim, of conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory, of rumours of self-interest and political manoeuvring, of angry denials and scattergun accusations and, above all, a story where pinning down the truth can feel like a troublingly elusive task.
He said, "Whenever I want ren, it is as close as the palm of my hand". Yet he also stated that his best student, Yan Hui, was the only person he had known who had exhibited ren for any significant length of time, and then only for three months, suggesting that the attainment and practice of the virtue was an arduous or even elusive task.
Yet he also stated that his best student, Yan Hui, was the only person he had known who had exhibited ren for any significant length of time, and then only for three months, suggesting that the attainment and practice of the virtue was an arduous or even elusive task.
This makes interoperation, collaboration, portability and manageability of data and services a very complex and elusive task.
Getting in those top positions, however, can be a rather bewildering, daunting and elusive task for any small business.
