(a.) Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
Example Sentences:
(1) The successful treatment of the painful neuroma remains an elusive surgical goal.
(2) Diagnostic difficulties were encountered due to the rarity of such infections and elusive identification of the organism with routine laboratory procedures.
(3) Diagnosis with light microscopy can be elusive; electron microscopic and immunohistochemical evaluation are necessary to confirm the pathological condition.
(4) But an agreement looks elusive, and it appears that another election will be held soon.
(5) Effectiveness and safety of other molecules remain elusive.
(6) Thus, the identity of the suppressive factor(s) in cultured I-CB cell supernatants remains elusive.
(7) The quality of family life is as elusive a concept as is quality of life for the individual.
(8) In the United States, early diagnosis and cure of gastric carcinoma remain elusive.
(9) Despite their functional prominence, the structural requirements of fully functional GABAA-receptors are still elusive.
(10) The explanation for this dramatic loss of GSH has been investigated by many laboratories but the solution has been elusive.
(11) While the etiology and pathogenesis of such lesions remain elusive, physicians performing hair transplantations should be aware of this potential sequela.
(12) Les Cafeteras began the second half in similarly determined mode and the elusive Rincón sent a shot dipping fractionally over the bar from distance.
(13) Never before has so much been learned about the molecular biology of a virus in such a short time since its discovery and yet effective strategies for fighting the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS remain elusive.
(14) With her first book, Girl Online, due out in November and an audience estimated to be 26 times that of the circulation of British Vogue, Zoella is a key example of what the advertising world call a “crowdsourced people’s champion” – one who earns hundreds of thousands of pounds a year and is paid by brands such as Unilever to connect with the ever-elusive 18-30 demographic.
(15) We retrospectively reviewed the MR examinations of five patients with surgically proved cervical epidural abscess in order to assist in the diagnosis of this clinically elusive disorder.
(16) Steroid hormone receptors are elusive, labile regulatory proteins which communicate the action of the sex hormones, estrogens and progestins, in target organs such as the breast and uterus.
(17) However, the principles of optimal mAb selection remain elusive, as their efficacy in vivo does not always correlate with their characteristics in vitro.
(18) Bacterial endocarditis is an elusive disease that challenges clinicians' diagnostic capabilities.
(19) The chronic inflammatory diseases in humans have been intensively investigated, however the immune mechanisms underlying diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), inflammatory bowel disease, and periodontal disease (PD) remain elusive.
(20) Three years later, the proud owner of a PG diploma in housing studies and member of the Chartered Institute of Housing, I was offered the opportunity to complete a further year's study and obtain that elusive degree.
Remembrance
Definition:
(n.) The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
(n.) The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection.
(n.) Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
(n.) That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memorial; a token; a memento; a souvenir; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered.
(n.) Something to be remembered; counsel; admoni//on; instruction.
(n.) Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similar scenes of remembrance played out across the country – in a show of emotion not seen since the 1937 funeral of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's first president after the nation was founded in 1918.
(2) An ITV news presenter who has been subject to racist and sexist abuse for her decision not to wear a Remembrance Day poppy said she made her decision in order to be "neutral and impartial on-screen".
(3) "And I think that there was some major journalist [the Channel Four news presenter Jon Snow in 2010] who would be as big a supporter of Remembrance Day as anybody, but who said he didn't wear a poppy because he felt people were telling him he should do it.
(4) Sixteen Anglican chaplains are understood to be spending Remembrance Sunday on active service in Helmand, Afghanistan.
(5) He has appointed Tory MP Andrew Murrison, a former Royal Navy medical officer, as his special representative for the remembrance.
(6) Sunday's remembrance ceremony at the Cenotaph in Whitehall did not offer much in the way of opportunities for error.
(7) This sporting occasion did begin in remembrance of one of the most remarkable campaigns for justice, against a scandalous police cover-up, but it ended largely in rancour, and complaints about a referee, Mark Halsey.
(8) Following the Last Post, wreaths will be laid and the Act of Remembrance will finish with a royal salute.
(9) "This is a test; we have to confront it, we have to resist, we have to fight," he told a remembrance ceremony for former French prime minister Michel Debré in Amboise, central France .
(10) His critics have variously attacked him for not bowing low enough at the cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday , appearing not to sing the national anthem at a service and “snubbing” the Rugby World Cup opening ceremony by turning down an invitation to attend.
(11) "The Remembrance Sunday Service at the Cenotaph has always contained prayers and readings from scripture, and the fact that it continues to be so central a part of our public life would suggest that it is meeting people's pastoral needs," said the Venerable Peter Eagles, archdeacon for the army.
(12) It has been found that chlorpromazine tends to lessen the incidental memory in extent and increase the number of allomnesias or instances of inaccurate remembrance, whereas amphetamine has the effects of increasing the extent of the incidental memory and reducing the number of allomnesias.
(13) On the third anniversary last year, 19 mothers of the island’s dead wrote to Conservative prime minister Erna Solberg asking for Utøya to stay closed, and to remain as a place of remembrance.
(14) It is the culmination of a long and painful attempt to find a balance between politics and grief, courage and remembrance, youth and parenthood, moving on and looking back.
(15) The Glasgow Games will be followed immediately by the main, official first world war centenary remembrance service at Glasgow Cathedral – a commemoration seen by pro-unity campaigners as evidence of the UK's powerful shared history.
(16) Samira Ahmed (@SamiraAhmedUK) Hundreds complain about #Marr 's Le Pen interview on Remembrance Sunday.
(17) Then, as customary, our minister issued a prayer, ending in a moment of silent remembrance.
(18) St James's Palace said of Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge: "The Duke's strong view is the poppy is a universal symbol of remembrance, which has no political, religious or commercial connotations."
(19) Accompanied by the Salamanca band of the Rifles, the parade will march from the cathedral to Liberation Monument for the remembrance service.
(20) Malcolm Turnbull asks for investigation into minister Stuart Robert's China trip Read more A media release issued by China MinMetals Corporation said Robert had extended his congratulations “on behalf of the Australian Department of Defence” and had presented “a medal bestowed to him by Australian prime minister in honour of remembrance and blessing”.