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Peace proved elusive, though, and the country was again torn by war — this time pitting brother against brother.
My Columbia colleague Simon Schama's Dead Certainties , also now several years old, was a deliberate effort to play with the elusive boundary between fiction and history and to suggest how the two might be fruitfully joined.
A major difficulty in the study of cancer is that cancer cells are extremely elusive and the genetic mutation events are continuously occurring temporally and spatially.
Chance for the gold elusive as the cure for trials of heart.
(1) Although precise figures must remain elusive, according to the best current estimates a total of 10 to 11 million living slaves crossed the Atlantic Ocean from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century.