Even in major urban centers wrestling with drug problems, the patterns are elusive to many public-policy specialists.
Why is realizing the distinction between the health care mandate and the four cases cited in this article (namely Raich and Filburn) so elusive to writers and commentators?
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Yet until a few decades ago, the form and function of this crucial communications network remained elusive to scientists, even as it became clear that it held the key to critical mysteries in pharmacology and medicine.
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But that will be elusive, to judge by the rancorous tone of this week's peace talks.
College was promoted to us as something elusive that had to be earned through much toil.
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The challenge is that jazz is such an elusive art to capture.
And the fundamental problem is the same: a failure of alignment, by which I mean of the elusive ability to link strategic intent at the top of an organization to tactical performance at the bottom, via an unbroken internal narrative.
It seems to me there is something else at work, but it is elusive and hard to pinpoint.
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In ten years the X Games have become, pound for pound, one of the most valuable enterprises in television sports--and a favorite venue for Sony, Gillette and other marketers eager to reach an elusive audience: 12- to 19-year-olds.
Murray has had a mixed season with a first Grand Slam victory continuing to prove elusive and he admitted that if he is to win one it will almost certainly not be on the clay of the French Open.
Bonus: a chance to spot the elusive and endangered blue sheep, unique to this mountain range.
But in Europe, a clear-cut solution to the nursing crisis may prove to be elusive, as governments and international organizations have very different approaches to dealing with the problem.
The long awaited and ever elusive correction seems to be near, if not in progress.
These concepts may be elusive and difficult to measure, but their significance is far greater than IQ.
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Slim Jim's target consumer niche is the elusive 18- to 29-year-old guy.
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Since the concept of achieving is elusive and hard to define, I thought I would borrow a time-tested technique from the comedian and entertainer Jeff Foxworthy.
All this is moving toward an elusive goal: to find a "buy button" inside the skull and to test products, packaging and advertising for their ability to activate it.
But the reality is that to find that elusive bit of illumination you kind of have to know where to look and what you are looking for.
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Sightings are notoriously difficult to predict and cannot be guaranteed, but if you want to chase the elusive lights, right now is the best time to head up north.
But agreement seems to be elusive and without it there's a chance Labour and the Lib Dems might be able to push Leveson-style statutory regulation through.
Which is why scientists have decided to look no farther than the Earth itself for elusive particles which are thought to be as old as the Universe and endowed with the ability to traverse solid matter: neutrinos.
Thereafter, Michael himself begins to demonstrate the same elusive symptoms, whose subtly mystical character and tendency to come and go torturously suggest that the problem may be in his head.
But in these times of trouble, a minister prepared to defend scientists could prove as elusive as the neutrinos they are trying to detect.
Furthermore, unlike most examples of nanotechnology, these new materials may be able to make the elusive transition from nano-sized materials (a nanometre is a billionth of a metre) to macro-sized components.
Yet the jaguars stayed true to their elusive reputation and we had no sightings.
We started the game by going after the innovation mole, until it proved to be elusive and strange and tricky.
Profits continue to remain elusive as the company expands its business world-wide.
With an election around the corner, voters concerns and fears weigh more heavily than wishes of the generals to pursue elusive victory.
The elusive figures turned out to be Murle boys protecting the convoy.
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