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Tom is elusive.
Weasels have a reputation for being elusive and cunning.
Movie subtitles
Marcasse swore to punish with his own hands the chief culprit: the elusive Tristan de Mauprat who hid among the ruins of his ancient fortress.
Very elusive chap.
I've hardly exchanged five words with your elusive nephew.
There were only a few actual skirmishes with the elusive Japanese.
When the smoke cleared and what was left of the division limped off they again told Huxley that he must find the elusive Japanese garrison who, this time, were hidden in 45 miles of island atolls.
Only the most beautiful emeralds contain that miracle of elusive blue.
Men like their women mysterious, elusive.
They're shy, elusive creatures.
Completely elusive.
Elusive, captain.
Perhaps the elusive creature will now reveal something about itself.
The circus of today is just an elusive and heart-rending remnant.
The elusive elixir of life.
Well, Gussie, you want to see the elusive little ball under the shells.
Perhaps this was the elusive John Huston treatment, written in the summer of 1932 when he was under contract to Universal as a writer.
The biggest, most elusive trout in Glen Arden.
He's elusive.
It is almost pure Egyptian with a mixture of Latakia for added body and a pinch of Perique, merely a whisper as one might say - for elusive fragrance.
It is at this moment that my elusive papa concludes. that his duty is done. and that there should be no more cakes and ale. for his mischievous youth.
I'm trying to track down an elusive thought.
But the most difficult, the most elusive target imaginable.
Elusive, Captain. I am investigating.
I have indeed. She's elusive as ever.
One must be.. Elusive.
Very elusive chap, our Johnny.
Gentlemen, gentlemen, come inside and see Loretta, the beautiful shadow on the Mediterranean screen, enticing, alluring, elusive, provocative, and two francs only.
It was elusive. it is good, I understood.
Elusive, captain. I am investigating.
Wanting to capture the elusive, you risk to miss the most essential.
That elusive ingredient.
Elusive swine. Go well, George. You too, Con.
Excuse me please for my curiosity, but whe do you need so quickly that elusive Misha?
News and current affairs
Otherwise, a sustainable global recovery may remain elusive, in which case 2014 could end in low gear as well.
Emboldened by the warrant and its elusive suggestion of international support, the Darfuri rebels, the Justice and Equality Movement, have walked out of peace talks with Sudan's government.
Without a viable legal system, foreign investment will remain elusive.
Indeed, Abe's visit to Yasukuni came only a day after he completed a long-elusive, US-backed bilateral deal to relocate America's airbase in Okinawa to a less populous area of the island.
Indeed, although he has made some small improvements in regulation, privatization, and cash transfers to the poor, bolder land and labor-market reforms remain elusive.
But education laws have proved elusive too.
But the transition from follower to leader at the frontier of the innovation economy is more challenging and elusive.
Complete eradication is in reach, but is still proving elusive, as small outbreaks have plagued one country or another in recent years.
The meaning of a drug-aided victory is ambiguous and elusive even for the athlete.
It is easy to see why governments should de-emphasize economic growth when it is proving so elusive.
Without stronger productivity gains there, economic growth will prove elusive.
And, as the ongoing dispute over Greece illustrates, agreement remains elusive: Participating countries have developed contradictory analyses of the causes of the debt crisis, from which they derive contradictory prescriptions.
That would turn Xi's Chinese Dream into a more elusive prospect.
Investment on this scale can help countries worldwide to make vital progress on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions at a time when political solutions based on international agreement remain elusive.
Success may still prove elusive, but a new game with a greater possibility for success will have begun.
Until then, China's quest for international respect is set to remain elusive and Tibet is likely to stay on the world's agenda.
How to forge a single community out of a state so diverse remains an elusive challenge.
With that, the legitimate objectives of the revolution that began on January 25, 2011 - inclusive growth, social justice, and human dignity - would prove even more elusive.
Despite its obvious benefits, such a coordinated international approach remains elusive.
National sovereignty is becoming an ever more elusive concept.
Given the regularity of serious diplomatic spats - over everything from tiny atolls in the South China Sea to the legacy of World War II - this may sound like an elusive dream.
But political and social stability have proved to be even more elusive.
How elusive the peace dividend remains can be seen from the government's decision to press ahead with the expansion of an already-large military.
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