Sentences with phrase «proven elusive»

Pebble designer Steve Johns said that the new design was influenced by both traditional watches and modern technology like cellphones — a balance that's previously proven elusive, but that Pebble is quickly finding.

Legal research tools targeted to private consumers has proven elusive for the most part.

The search for objective constraints with which to reduce the uncertainty in regional predictions has proven elusive.

But international compromise has proven elusive, and no agreement requiring cuts in carbon emissions has been achieved.

Quantifying those results and packaging them for buyers, however, has proven elusive once you get beyond payments for ecosystem services.

Alas, many changes over time have not been recorded, and consistent corrections have proven elusive even for recorded changes.

Many like to opine about the future direction of the economy or interests rates, and yet consistent success at this endeavor has proven elusive over time.

Finding an effective cure has generally proven elusive.

It could also lead to images of important disease - relevant proteins that have proven elusive for other imaging techniques, and of the assembly process that forms DNA from separate, individual strands.

So far, «genome - wide association studies» have identified variant DNA sequences showing statistical association with these and other complex diseases, but demonstrating a mechanistic role for these variants has proven elusive.

But predicting such radiative heat transfer between extremely close objects has proven elusive for the past 50 years.

Photos of them have proven elusive.

The capacity of the stand - alone physician to produce high - quality, evidenced - based care, yielding meaningful and lasting change in lifestyle behaviors, has proven elusive.

However, clear ideas on how they form and how to predict these events in advance have proven elusive.

«Methods of controlling and manipulating subwavelength acoustic and elastic waves have proven elusive and difficult; however, the potential applications — once the methods are refined — are tremendous,» said Guoliang Huang, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the College of Engineering at MU.

Effective therapies for either group of patients have proven elusive because the mechanism by which iron moves into the body has been unclear.

Direct evidence for light - by - light scattering at high energy had proven elusive for decades — until the Large Hadron Collider's second run began in 2015.

Despite their expected ubiquity, astronomical identification of specific aromatic molecules has proven elusive.

While you were carrying your little one, sleep may have proven elusive.

Yet all efforts to enforce the rules have thus far proven elusive.

Yet all efforts to accomplish this objective have thus far proven elusive, from the NHL all the way down to the youngest levels.

But decisive evidence for this phenomenon has proven elusive.

But truth be told, policy levers on overall productivity have proven elusive.

Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers.

But, judging from initial reactions, it may not prove the elusive Obamacare - slaying silver bullet the GOP has been seeking for some seven years.

Chapo Isidro, on the other hand, has proved elusive to security forces and rivals, allegedly maintaining power as the head of various offshoot criminal groups.

A jump in domestic U.K. mergers will likely continue in 2018, but big deals could prove elusive on «competition issues.»

Peace has proved elusive since Mali's independence from France in 1960.

As I introduced in The End of Business as Usual, anyone who places increasing emphasis on technology as part of their daily routine, in many ways, their behavior mimics that of Millennials and as a result, they prove elusive or immune to traditional marketing and service.

But to achieve that million ounce goal, Lihir will need more than outperformance; it will need operational consistency, which has proved elusive through most of its operating life.

This question is seriously debated by serious scholars and the answer has proved elusive.

The third goal was proving elusive though and with Everton looking dangerous on the counter, the result was definitely in the balance.

In any case, as a parting gift, I thought I'd give «Jimmy Sogg» the moment of recognition that so often proves elusive to the cowards who abuse people online.

Followers of Newcastle United have long labelled the former midfielder a «boom and bust» manager, with long winning spells often followed by even longer runs where victories prove elusive.

Despite dominating possession and generating a number of chances, a breakthrough proved elusive for the Reds, denying Brendan Rodgers» side a third straight Barclays Premier League win.

Victory in Greece would have booked Barca's passage to the knock - out phase but the three points proved elusive on a night when Luis Suarez hitting the top of the crossbar was as close as the visitors came.

However, the Spaniard has overseen another barren spell where wins have once again proved elusive.

Despite the win proving elusive at home, Blackpool's performances on the whole at Bloomfield Road have been very pleasing, especially their latest valiant effort against Man City, who the pushed all the way and never gave up until the final whistle in typical Holloway / Blackpool fashion.

We are still the most successful club in the history of the competition, but the 10th cup has proved elusive so far.

Despite your comfortable bed or that new mattress topper for side sleepers, sleep may prove elusive when taking care of a newborn.

Britain's Nato diplomacy is on a knife - edge ahead of next month's Wales summit, with agreement proving elusive over the buildup of Nato forces against Russia.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- Compromise proved elusive Thursday as New York lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo worked to hammer out budget deals on ride - hailing, juvenile justice reforms and college tuition assistance ahead of a key deadline.

The laser process has long held the promise of cheaper uranium enrichment, but mastering it efficiently has so far proved elusive.

Over the past two decades, forecasters have improved their ability to predict where hurricanes will go, but improvements in forecasting a hurricane's intensity have proved elusive.

It provided much - needed protection to millions of children, but 95 % coverage proved elusive.

Effective ways to profile for potential Islamic terrorists have proved elusive, but two sociologists think there may be clues in the subjects they choose to study

Two experiments at CERN are designed to make antihydrogen in useful quantities, but that goal is proving elusive

Conventional vaccines work by triggering the immune system into manufacturing antibodies against an infectious organism, but such a vaccine has proved elusive for the rapidly mutating HIV.

But a pattern that spawned an identical copy of itself proved elusive.

Answers about how the brain as a whole integrates activity among areas, however, have proved elusive.