Sentence examples for elusive rules from inspiring English sources

Now there is Jacquelyn Reingold's "String Fever," at the Ensemble Studio Theater, which applies the elusive rules of string theory to the conundrums of one woman's love life.

This pretty much captured the spirit of those elusive rules that govern the subatomic world, where light can be a wave — no, a particle — well, actually, whatever you need it to be for your particular experiment.

The Chinese describe that as renzhi — "rule by man" — the invidious real-world substitute for the elusive "rule of law" that they have sought, for so long, to create.

The Chinese describe that as renzhi_ — _ rule by man" — the invidious real-world substitute for the elusive "rule of law" that they have sought, for so long, to create.

Inevitably it doesn't matter if you diligently play by their elusive and incomprehensible rules while they hang the threat of raising your interest rate or destroying your credit over your head if you so much as sneeze or are five minutes late with a payment.

But why are grammar rules so elusive?

It's not that cinema is incompatible with the blithe pleasures of playtime: think of the obscure rules, the elusive clues, of Jacques Rivette's Pont du Nord, which treats the arrondissements of Paris like a giant board game.

How cells form global, self-organized structures using genetically encoded molecular rules remains elusive.

The stability of mRNAs is regulated by signals within their sequences, but a systematic and predictive understanding of the underlying sequence rules remains elusive.

Dretske might fall back on the view that the conclusive reasons account rules out knowing elusive, as opposed to limiting, claims through pseudocircular reasoning, because we lack conclusive reasons for elusive claims no matter what sort of reasoning we employ.

As I did more reporting, the logic behind the rule grew as elusive as a free power outlet in the boarding area.