Sentence examples for elusive borders from inspiring English sources

From firsthand experience on three research expeditions that have sampled inside and outside the elusive borders of the gyres, I can say this, anecdotally: The gyres do concentrate plastic, but plastic is not just within the gyre borders, it's everywhere.

Those included "the propagation of truly deep and beautiful mathematical ideas (not just 'mathematical games,' far from it!); the intense battling of pseudoscience and related ideas; the invention of superb magic tricks; the love for beautiful poetry; the fascination with profound philosophical ideas; the elusive border between nonsense and sense … and on and on and on and on," Hofstadter said.

Mixed messages are therefore sometimes apparent from policy implementation partners during the preparation of research outputs, with professions of laudable albeit sometime elusive impartiality, suggestions bordering on instructions, and a sense of seeking to reject advice before it has been fully delivered.

The Guardian revealed on Sunday that the special meeting of heads of state and government, at which the EU had hoped to sign off on the Brexit negotiations next month, could instead be turned into an emergency summit to discuss the bloc's response to a cliff-edge Brexit should progress on the Irish border prove elusive.

Of 14 sections of the border where agreement is elusive, one seems to matter very much: around Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh.

Since Israeli troops completed their pullout in late May, normality has been an elusive thing along the 105-mile border with Lebanon.

Israel and the Palestinians have yet to agree on their borders as part of an elusive peace agreement.

The "revenue synergies" promised in cross-border mergers have proved particularly elusive, given the stubbornly local nature of regulation.

Cross-border co-ordination has also proved elusive.

The EU official warned that progress on the Irish border – "let alone substantive progress" – was proving "elusive".

But fixing its borders with anything that approaches precision can be elusive.