Sentence examples for elusive given from inspiring English sources

That goal has been elusive, given how much the company spends on advertising and marketing.

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

In other cloud businesses profits will be elusive, given the intense competition from Amazon, Google and increasingly IBM.

But a viable alternative has proved to be elusive, given the desire for a way to measure students against a single yardstick.

The issue of human trafficking for sexual exploitation at large global sporting events has proven to be elusive given the clandestine nature of the industry.

According to AP, "the only way" to improve the park's air quality is to clean up the air throughout the entire San Joaquin air basin, "something that so far has proved elusive given the myriad sources of pollution".

A large, slow-moving woman with a wide, fleshy face and small, intense eyes, she is graceful and elusive, giving clues to Séraphine's rich and vivid inner life without spelling out or overdramatizing her peculiar and perhaps unknowable state of mind.

Ms. Hanover, elusive and given to genial platitudes in her rare interviews, calls herself "pleased" to have a career.

Though the subject matter is geographically disparate, both works reveal their traditionally elusive mediums given weight and precise clarity.

For much of the history of cinema, feature-length single-shot movies were but an elusive dream given the limited capacity of film cameras, which typically hold only 1,000 feet of film, or about 10 minutes of footage.

His big break was at the Prix de Lausanne, a prestigious junior ballet competition in Switzerland, where he won the gold medal — an elusive prize, given only occasionally, to young dancers who show especial promise.