It is sometimes used as an analogy for a lifelong quest or something elusive that is much sought.

But consistency remains an elusive quest for the right-hander, who continues to be more erratic than dramatic.

Finally, unlike the Citicorp-Travelers deal, Daimler and Chrysler will not try to merge fundamentally different product lines in an elusive quest for super market glory.

Their discontentment has more to do with the never-ending, generally elusive and ultimately dissatisfying quest for self-fulfillment through professional advancement.

In the United States, the elusive quest has recently produced two rival techniques that are rapidly moving toward the objective.

Putting the two key phases of their game together has been an elusive quest for the Mets.

This study focused on the elusive quest to reach and measure the interstellar medium, the region outside of the influence of the nearest star, the Sun.

His broadcast closing went something like this: Wherever in the world you are, the drivers, as always, drove for that elusive quest to be the fastest.

Critics castigate them as Machiavellians who undertook reckless policies in the third world, often throwing American power behind brutal tyrants in elusive quests for international stability.

This spring, Obama officials often expressed impatience with questions about theory or about the elusive quest for an Obama doctrine.