Aside from the rather generally stated and decidedly elusive aims of the Charter, the member states of the United Nations cannot be said to have any common goal, and they have often failed to unify in the face of common external threats to security.
As the fetal immune reactions to congenital CMV infection in the brain and their effects on cerebral development remain elusive, our aim was to investigate primitive innate immunity to CMV infection and its effects on cerebral corticogenesis in a mouse model for congenital CMV infection using a precise intraplacental inoculation method.
Perhaps rightly, from its perspective, Washington seems more interested in the credibility of its promises to Kosovo, and in preserving the useful control it exercises over its elite, than in the stability of the Balkans, that elusive European strategic aim of the last two decades.
The solid result for "Chronicle," made in-house for a mere $12 million (not easy for a huge studio to do), validates Fox's decision to aggressively aim for elusive male moviegoers — and on Super Bowl weekend, no less.
Meanwhile, Ulster's warring politicians found peace just as elusive in emergency meetings aimed at saving the 1998 power-sharing government from collapsing in a stalemate over disarming paramilitary groups like the Irish Republican Army. Warren Hoge.
Some have called the promises a hard-won gain of an uprising that has shaken the Assad family's 40 years of control, while others have been dismissive of initiatives that may prove elusive and that seemed aimed at blunting the demonstrations' momentum.
Lots of outlets — Nickelodeon, ABC Family, the Disney Channel — have taken aim at that elusive, possibly nonexistent swath of Americans who just want to be able to watch television together as a family without worrying that something distasteful or inappropriate for children will pop up.
Panasonic brand products maker Matsushita Electric Industrial, taking aim at an elusive profit target, said on Friday it plans to build a $1 billion factory for microchips that power DVD recorders and flat TVs.
To aim for that elusive sattvic balance, of course.
And beyond formal educational institutions, Sidgwick was simply indefatigable in promoting and participating in discussion societies, ever aiming at the elusive "consensus of experts" that his epistemology called for.
