Sentence examples for are rather elusive from inspiring English sources

In addition, "climate" and "conflict" are rather elusive concepts and scholars have utilized different measures of each.

Exploring drug molecules for material design, to harness concepts of nano-anisotropy and ligand receptor interactions, are rather elusive.

A comparative analysis of East African agroecosystems shows that thresholds in specific variables that may point to the existence of possible tipping points are rather elusive and largely site specific, requiring systematic categorisation of agricultural contexts.

The mechanisms underlying GCI formation are rather elusive, and the causes of α-synuclein overexpression and aggregate formation are not yet understood.

Compared with other PPIs, the results for pantoprazole are rather elusive.

This generation is rather elusive.

"It's rather elusive," she said.

Influence among artists is rather elusive and subjective.

Spring was rather elusive this year, but Peter Lloyd, one of the owners of Brownie Points Bakery in downtown Summit, was undeterred: he had the walls of the shop painted sky blue, and decked out the windows and shelves with bird houses, daisies and tufts of artificial green grass.

The influence of African languages on the structure of Ebonics has been rather elusive, limited to some features such as copula omission, lack of subject-verb agreement, and absence of subject-auxiliary inversion in main clauses (illustrated below)—that this dialect shares with Caribbean English creoles and Gullah.

Despite the extensive study of periodic precipitation and rhythmic crystal growth into ringed patterns, the detail of the evolution process remains unclear, and thus the explanation is rather elusive.