Sentence examples for elusive said from inspiring English sources

Perhaps that's why, here in Washington, it's been so elusive," said Barack Obama on June 9th.

"Emeralds are elusive," said Robert Weldon, a colored-stone expert at the gemological institute.

A series of drug-laden planes make the loop from South America to the Sahel, but numbers are elusive, said Alexandre Schmidt of the United Nations drug office.

"Agreements of this nature are rarely perfect, and the complexities of the issues will always make unqualified support elusive," said John Allan, president of the group.

"They're a special bird to see whenever you see them because they're so bright and they're so elusive," said Marie Winn, a writer and birder who mentioned its arrival on her blog a week ago.

"Six years after the world economy emerged from its broadest and deepest postwar recession, a return to robust and synchronised global expansion remains elusive," said Maurice Obstfeld, the IMF's economic counsellor.

"What's so desirable is that they are elusive," says Churchill.

But sometimes that spark is elusive," says Mr. Foreman, who says his company splits all revenue with its inventors.

She is notoriously difficult to capture as elusive, says Ms Tomalin, as a cloud in the night sky.

Senate leaders were more elusive, saying only that they expected to return before the new school year begins in September.

"The trigger [of the warming periods] is elusive," says Overpeck.