Sentence examples for elusive aspiration from inspiring English sources

This will put the much-rumored same-day delivery — the elusive aspiration of every online merchant — potentially within reach in some metropolitan areas.

The thorny issues of memory and representation are a common theme, with the conclusion often being that memory — perhaps especially in Lebanon, where there were so many competing ideologies and narratives — is an untrustworthy, manipulative beast, and that accurate representation is an elusive aspiration.

Obama did not apologize at Hiroshima in May, a visit that he and Abe used to emphasize their elusive aspirations for a nuclear-free future.

The conclusion to the entry questions whether global governance without world government in contemporary world conditions can really deliver the goods of global security, universal human rights, social justice, and environmental protection that have made the ideal of world government a persistent if elusive human aspiration.

The lugubrious pacing changed the song, making its heroic aspirations seem elusive, if not delusional.

It's more even than a foundation stone for regional peace and stability (an aspiration that seems to become ever more elusive each day).

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

Increasing the number of employers and apprentices participating in apprenticeships of relatively long duration and of relatively high skill remains an aspiration for policy makers even if its realisation has proved to be somewhat elusive (Richard 2012).

The outlook suggests the government's long-held aspiration of rebalancing the economy away from over-reliance on domestic demand will remain elusive.

It is less intent on plumbing the depths of its elusive hero than in following this hypothetical Anglo-English hybrid to the place where his aspirations lead, even as those aspirations turn tragic.

But so far his aspirations for big shifts in tax policy share something in common with the income gap that underlies them: evidence of a breakthrough remains elusive.