Peter Szep, the conductor, had trouble eliciting a sustained flow from his scrappy orchestra outside of showpiece arias and ensembles.
Candidates who don't follow the party line may have trouble eliciting support from activists and national campaign committees.
Because of its relatively small size and its Chinese ownership, Ssangyong has not stirred the kind of public sympathy that giant domestic companies in trouble had elicited.
The root cause of Malaysia's troubles should elicit far less pity.
By coming at the problems from the respondents' perspective, cognitive interviews can help to pinpoint the trouble and elicit suggestions for how to fix it.
When a perfectly charming row home sat on the market over a week in a neighborhood where a similarly priced house would have elicited a bidding war a month ago, I knew there was trouble.
Roberts's tone was wry, and the laughter he elicited from the audience was both telling and troubling.
We suspected that this was because this item was not a structured question designed for any specific symptom, but elicited in an open way what symptoms had troubled the patient.
In this study, therefore, only perceptions of maltreatment could be elicited, the reasons for not reporting being focused on fear of further trouble.
It would become the least of the Brooklyn office's troubles after the conservative filmmakers posing as a pimp and a prostitute — James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles — elicited advice from two of its counselors on how to secure a mortgage for a brothel.
