Sentence examples for elusive characteristics from inspiring English sources

Although a precise definition of bone quality remains elusive, characteristics other than bone density, such as trabecular architecture, bone turnover, and mineralization of the bone matrix may be important factors in the pathophysiology of osteoporosis and the mechanisms that underlie fracture.

Determining how these aspects of the game can be measured and how it can be determined which players have these elusive characteristics is the next frontier for sabermetrics.

The diverse nature of cephalopod habitat and morphology has interested researchers for hundreds of years, and yet the evolutionary history of many key characteristics has remained elusive.

Profits remained elusive.

Circulating tumour cells (CTCs) have an important role in metastatic processes, but details of their basic characteristics remain elusive.

Casino developments, especially if in interest of the state, can provide an appropriate context for which to form an intelligence community that focuses more on 'internal' and 'domestic' protection of assets rather than 'confronting' and 'waging wars' against an elusive enemy, which is characteristic of the Global North's approach to using intelligence for supporting foreign policies (Shiraz 2013).

For a long time, the characteristics of this elusive element were a mystery, but physicists at the CERN physics laboratory in Switzerland have now measured its ionization potential — the amount of energy needed to remove one electron from an atom of astatine, turning it into an ion or a charged particle.

While the initial discovery of AEG-1 left with an abundance of controversial understanding of its biological functions and biochemical characteristics, which remains elusive to date, a few features of AEG-1 have been recognized with certain consensus.

Despite much endeavour these remained elusive, sometimes with the suspicious characteristic of becoming less active as they became more pure.

Myocardial dysfunction is a well-known complication in septic shock but its characteristics and frequency remains elusive.

Although the cellular and molecular characteristics of SSCs remain elusive, particularly in primates, insights can be gleaned from progress studying rodent SSCs.