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And they're also private, hard to pin down and revealing.
The tangled causal pathways are often hard to pin down.
The Koch brothers' wealth is also hard to pin down.
Already, Mr. Smith's art was proving hard to pin down.
That said, the tone is initially hard to pin down.
What that release is, exactly, is hard to pin down.
Of course, attitudes about abortion are hard to pin down.
Antifa, by its very nature, is hard to pin down.
It's hard to pin down a clear line of argument.
"Someone that fertile is hard to pin down," she added.
The impact of gender is hard to pin down decisively.
It's hard to pin down what exactly The Lighthouse is.
Where nationalists are surging, the reasons are hard to pin down.
In some ways, it's a sound that's hard to pin down.
The inclusive nature of Steph's transcendence is hard to pin down.
The stewed okra with cod is especially hard to pin down.
Of course, it's hard to pin down total public health spending.
Labour, like data, is a resource that is hard to pin down.
I think that's what makes your sound really hard to pin down.
That's the thing about The Goon Sax––they're hard to pin down.
It's been hard to pin down the Labour Party's position on Brexit.
And it is personally expressive, though in ways hard to pin down.
The makeup of the superdelegate group can be hard to pin down.
The reasons for Bob and Ray's lasting appeal were hard to pin down.
First, it's usually hard to pin down their origins to a single source.
She's also very hard to pin down, as is Rory's relationship with Logan.
What pulls investors in or puts them off is hard to pin down.
As with so much involving China, the details are hard to pin down.
Other claims made by this "Satoshi" have also proven hard to pin down.
The numbers are hard to pin down, but there is cause for alarm.
THE line separating the improbable from the impossible is hard to pin down.
GBPEUR= But volatile exchange rates meant the figures were hard to pin down.
It's hard to pin down a mutable sign—they're always on the move.
Also, prices are hard to pin down, ranging from around $40 to $80.
It's said that you, Sagittarius, are a centaur that's hard to pin down.
Mood swings and anger are pretty nebulous conditions, hard to pin down scientifically.
Other times they keep their distance, appear aloof, are hard to pin down.
In many ways, it's hard to pin down Marin Scorsese as a filmmaker.
Which is why it is so hard to pin down what predicts performance.
By the end, this unreliable narration makes it hard to pin down Monroe's character.
Mr Trump's scorn for facts makes his precise world view hard to pin down.
The remaining element in the deal is folly, and that's hard to pin down.
Definitions of supply-chain finance abound and its scale is hard to pin down.
The exact number of convicted felons in the country is hard to pin down.
It's hard to pin down exactly how growing up alongside my brother affected me.
It's hard to pin down the leader of Blood Ceremony's pagan rites, Alia O'Brien.
All agree that the group's nebulous nature makes the number hard to pin down.
It's hard to pin down the precise number of Dutch marijuana producers moving west.
Whatever you think of Mr. Trump, he's an exceptional man, hard to pin down.
In terms of story, the relevance of this encounter is hard to pin down.
In interviews, professors and students said the causes were not hard to pin down.
A lot about the show is hard to pin down, which is its strength.
It was just a strange and weird place that's really hard to pin down.
Rosenstein, both in the moment and in retrospect, is very, very hard to pin down.
It's hard to pin down the exact moment Will loses Phoebe to Jejah, the cult.
Sounds like a profitable — if maybe hard to pin down — idea, if you ask us.
Castle Rock is hard to pin down, and this trailer doesn't clear up any questions.
Unlike those of his religiously observant predecessors, Mr. Oursler's beliefs are hard to pin down.
A man with as many alter egos as he has is hard to pin down.
His political positions are hard to pin down, but they are tinged with populist rhetoric.
Before she released her plan, it was hard to pin down Harris on health care.
It's hard to pin down how these things change—often they happen in unnoticeable shifts.
It's hard to pin down precise numbers when it comes to vitamin K deficiency bleeding.
Everyone will know Tehran was responsible but clear blame may be hard to pin down.
And, these extreme lacerations aren't that likely, although it's hard to pin down official rates.
Either could be inventing her stories, and Linda in particular is hard to pin down.
But what, if any, danger that poses has been hard to pin down, Hoffman said.
The mythology surrounding ecoterrorism makes it hard to pin down how much of it actually happens.
When we're not in sync, though, it's usually hard to pin down exactly what has shifted.
I mean, nerve-racking for many reasons — [Gary] is mysterious, hard to pin down, closed off.
Pro Football Focus provided positions for this article, but some players are hard to pin down.
And while it's hard to pin down an exact number, consumer data is a growing market.
Red's active roster of original series, hard to pin down, is in the low double digits.
Trump's promises have been hard to pin down, with many policy details left elusive and vague.
These varying patterns are another reason the dangers of vaping are so hard to pin down.
It's hard to pin down what Facebook is because the platform replaces labor that was previously invisible.
" And they said, "Well, as you know from past dealings, he is extremely hard to pin down.
The happy medium between looking like Kim Kardashian or Hagrid the giant is hard to pin down.
Regardless, while the White Walkers remain fascinatingly unknowable and hard to pin down, one thing is inarguable.
It's always hard to pin down the true impetus, and often the real source is not obvious.
The Vancouver-born musician Tommy Genesis has made a habit out of being hard to pin down.
Trump later appeared to walk the statement back, though his position has been hard to pin down.
The music feels so unfamiliar because Qualatik is deliberately exploring themes that are hard to pin down.
The difference between being codependent and just being super-supportive, though, can be hard to pin down.
Cash prices for these sales are also hard to pin down in a market without screen trading.
Robert J. Samuelson explains how attitudes toward globalization are hard to pin down but easy to manipulate.
It's hard to pin down exactly what you'll be doing in the game, but it looks relaxing.
It's pretty hard to pin down what, exactly, is the status of Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson's relationship.
It's hard to pin down what that exact feeling is but it's something that works really well live.
In a world where unknowns abound, it makes sense that valuations would be very hard to pin down.
So it's sort of in this hard-to-pin-down reality that you have to become aware of.
It's hard to pin down a definitive list of what apps will be affected by the new rules.
"It's hard to pin down exactly what happened," Boone said before Wednesday night's game against the Baltimore Orioles.
Southern and southwestern borders are especially hard to pin down, as the neighborhood's corridors there bleed into Chinatown.
Books of The Times Geoff Dyer writes books that are easy to enjoy but hard to pin down.
In part, too, it may be that Murdoch is supremely hard to pin down in nearly every regard.
By being hard to pin down, they succeeded in attracting voters from both the left and the right.
Exact competitors are hard to pin down as Koru Kids incorporates several different services, each with specific competitors.
Williamson speaks with an accent that's hard to pin down, and her comments were a little, say, unconventional.
"Human skin colors are hard to pin down and they have a lot of emotional connotations," he said.
Hard to pin down, easily muddled up, and easily miswritten, especially with the aid of our correcting machines.
The culmination of two and a half years of development, it's as hard to pin down as she is.
But the precise figure is hard to pin down until we all agree what counts as an AI startup.
In other words, while pain itself might be hard to pin down from person to person, systemic racism isn't.
"It's hard to pin down a common practice," Walsh said of taking on the financial industry with other plaintiffs.
An exact figure is hard to pin down, but many here say there are now hundreds of gin makers.
A quick glance at the cast for the upcoming season offers some ideas ... but it's hard to pin down.
He became a visible if sometimes hard-to-pin-down figure, something like the semifictional characters in his books.
In his defense, the attendees were hard to pin down, divided into factions loosely structured around age and priorities.
On his other albums, he's so distinctive that it can be hard to pin down any individual big influences.
The taste of ocean brine is hard to pin down, until you do, and then its flavor is irrefutable.
"Finding the first is as hard to pin down as the definition of a boutique hotel itself," he said.
While the total number of holiday travelers is hard to pin down, this is the world's largest annual migration.
With "top-down" measurements, on the other hand, the exact source of emissions can be hard to pin down.
It may be hard to pin down one exact moment, but they definitely stayed cool through the 2019 Met Gala.
Eve herself is a great example of a woman whose sexual proclivities are both unique and hard to pin down.
It's hard to pin down the direct consequences of Congress' latest move because, on a statutory level, little is changing.
Precise numbers are hard to pin down, partly because of differences between countries in what is counted as medical tourism.
This sounds like interesting satire, but the tone of the show is awfully hard to pin down from the performances.
That question is often loaded, and the answer is hard to pin down, since everyone has different circumstances and priorities.
These problems may sound fairly abstract—after all, it's hard to pin down the effects of free-floating, ambient hostility.
As with a lot of music that young people are making right now, her sound is hard to pin down.
But it'd be hard to pin down just exactly what Deem Spencer is exactly, outside of a hauntingly transparent scribe.
While exact numbers are hard to pin down, it's clear that in immigrant communities, children are missing school more often.
The rate for male horse/female donkey pairings is much lower although experts say it is hard to pin down.
His talent is hard to pin down, which is one reason a lot of critics think he doesn't have any.
Uncertainty is endemic to climate science because the exact level of future changes in climate are hard to pin down.
But the association with antidepressants is not as well recognized, experts say, and incidence rates are hard to pin down.
Trump's feelings on war with North Korea and Iran are, like on so many issues, extremely hard to pin down.
Numbers are hard to pin down, but writing in 0003 Mr French estimated that 1m had arrived in just a decade.
The multiple listing effect that is now being reported in New Orleans has been hard to pin down in the past.
Cabbage, sulfur, and rotten onions—no wonder that delicious durian smell has become so infamous and so hard to pin down.
Returns from biotech startup M&A exits are also hard to pin down because of the widespread use of milestone payments.
Another reason it's hard to pin down the number of gig economy jobs: There's little agreement on what it actually means.
But with so many brands and styles to choose from, it can be hard to pin down just what to buy.
The collective porn-fantasies of millennials' as one giant, monolithic group are exceptionally hard to pin down, but some have tried.
Overall, reporter Michael Paterniti found, "what happens to the hunters' fees ... is notoriously hard to pin down — and impossible in kleptocracies."
It can be hard to pin down because it often masquerades as something else or has no obvious or consistent symptoms.
She has a certain magnetism, and its hard to pin down, but it's the sort you'll recognize when you see it.
As with anything SSION does, it's hard to pin down, as it is as much Sonic Youth as it is Kylie Minogue.
The numbers are hard to pin down, as students in many cases are not required to list their involvement in the program.
The death toll has been hard to pin down as people are still being rescued, but at least 39 deaths are confirmed.
But the way in which this is done in poorer, often more corrupt countries makes truly comparable statistics hard to pin down.
First, it's not clear which states Sanders is including in the "Deep South," a phrase whose meaning is hard to pin down.
She's disagreed — briefly — with Obama on matters like immigration, trade and Arctic drilling, but the details are very hard to pin down.
During his Senate confirmation hearing, Barr was hard to pin down on whether he would OK the release of the full report.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads DENVER — It's hard to pin down what is happening in the frame of Enrique Martínez Celaya's paintings.
Recent research, in fact, shows that gun owners are a minority, about 2000 million Americans, though this number is hard to pin down.
Come to think of it, Ross has so little in common with Phoebe and Joey, their friendship seems hard to pin down anyway.
But the videos all seem slightly different, and when participants start discussing what they've seen, it's hard to pin down what actually happened.
It's hard to pin down why, but the Pixel Slate feels much smaller than it ought to given its 2329-inch screen size.
The sun meets retrograde Mercury on Sunday, bringing a moment of clarity during a time that's typically confusing and hard to pin down.
They can run from expressions of emotion (Scorpios are literally all about their emotions) and be too aloof and hard to pin down.
Sandpiper species range widely in coloration, size, and description, and it's hard to pin down any factoids that stretch across all the groups.
When Margot returned to campus, she was eager to see Robert again, but he turned out to be surprisingly hard to pin down.
It is hard to pin down Vince McMahon as a person because his actual character is so wrapped up in his WWE persona.
We are left with a portrait of villainy that feels, like the customer service number for an app, extremely hard to pin down.
Moreover, studies have shown that only about one-third of these crimes are reported to authorities, making concrete figures hard to pin down.
It's hard to pin down a similarly memorable speech that shaped the campaign of the Democrat who hopes to succeed him, Hillary Clinton.
Though US figures can be hard to pin down, 7,255 sex trafficking victims were identified in 2017 by the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
While the total number of holiday travelers is hard to pin down, The Times reports that this is the world's largest annual migration.
Many of the precise details of Pennington's career—who he played for and when; what numbers he put up—are hard to pin down.
SamMobile's Asif Iqbal Shaik points out that the S27 does appear to use new image chips, but the benefits are hard to pin down.
Hong Kong priests say a total figure of clerics under detention or house arrest in China is hard to pin down given official opacity.
Yet cause and effect are hard to pin down, as shown by the row about Donald Trump's culpability for what happened in El Paso.
Or, to paraphrase The New York Times, whether in a Stetson or a wig, Ledger was an actor who was hard to pin down.
You'll often hear that all teams still run elements of the triangle, but it's hard to pin down what this really means in practice.
That said, Gorusch's idiosyncricies make him hard to pin down when placed into two-party political context, something that likely endeared him to Trump.
Cancer is ruled by the Water element, and just as the tide comes and goes, our feelings can also be hard to pin down.
Worse, the variables, ported from the psychological study of individuals to the sociological study of nations, are unquantified and maddeningly hard to pin down.
We'll get into some more of those techniques, but I'm curious why you think fascism is so hard to pin down as an ideology.
The estimates are anywhere between 300 and 500 million records sold—albums and singles combined—but it's hard to pin down an approximate number.
Capnocytophaga isn't on the CDC's list of reportable diseases, and experts say it's hard to pin down numbers on how rare these infections are.
It's hard to pin down the exact moment, but at some point, the program's flaws exceeded what in good conscience I could participate in.
For starters, fluctuating currency rates can make it hard to pin down a precise measure of what the total expense through graduation will be.
The challenge is hard to pin down ... The Momo Challenge is hard to describe, because there's not a lot of proof it actually exists.
While what makes a Norwegian a Norwegian is hard to pin down, what makes a German Shepherd a German Shepherd is much more well-defined.
Here's the odd part: As seamlessly as the NSX supports and elevates your driving skills, it's hard to pin down how involved the car is.
Still, while the size of the litigation funding industry has exploded, its exact size and where the money comes from is hard to pin down
But more often than not, formulas need an extra something to really work — and what that extra ingredient is can be hard to pin down.
It's hard to pin down exactly how many miles of data Tesla's gotten from Autopilot because the company doesn't make many public statements about it.
The group is small — an exact number is hard to pin down — but claims to have the backing of a long list of antigovernment groups.
The role of editor-in-chief can be one of those nebulous, hard-to-pin-down titles that means something vastly different in each industry.
I've been trying to get you for a while, you're hard to pin down and I finally caught you in my web of red chairness.
The exact percentage of false allegations is hard to pin down because there's so much debate about how exactly to determine which reports are false.
One big problem for Trump and Ryan is that it's hard to pin down exactly what to change because everything about this is going wrong.
It's hard to pin down causality, but the broad-based approach of NOLA for LIFE, building on existing programs throughout the city, seemed to work.
Even so, Mr. Frost said, there is an element of melancholy in the music that is hard to pin down, given its predominantly placid harmonies.
Her vocal style is hard to pin down, rapping aggressive bars in one track, and using an upbeat, nasal nursery rhyme flow in the next.
Common use of the monikers for sanitation workers and correction officers came into use much later, though it is hard to pin down exactly when.
This can create an awkward situation that makes it hard to pin down plans, but you're a flexible sign that can act on the fly!
As with many of the stories that swirl around Mr. Duterte, who is now president of the Philippines, the truth is hard to pin down.
C. canimorsus is not on CDC's list of reportable diseases, and experts say it's hard to pin down numbers on how rare these infections are.
But applicants don't know everyone else who is applying to Harvard or Yale, and it's hard to pin down where you are on that totem pole.
These characters are not so much gay as queer—meaning their sexuality and gender are hard to pin down—which makes them more unnerving to protagonists.
While response from the awareness campaigns has been encouraging, when it comes to the shark population, experts said that actual numbers were hard to pin down.
I like it that, they are hard to pin down to an exact style—it sounds like a cop out but I love them all together.
Booker has ruled out taking money from corporate PACs, but he's been hard to pin down on what he thinks should be done with Phillips's group.
The numbers are hard to pin down, but in the past 25 years, it's estimated that tens of thousands of people have been killed or displaced.
The exact death toll will probably be hard to pin down since unsafe conditions in the US territory have persisted for so long after the storm.
It's hard to pin down the exact reasoning behind the anomaly, which in finance usually means the true answer lies amid the culmination of multiple ideas.
CLEVELAND — Donald J. Trump's acceptance speech here was filled with Trump-like hyperbole and the kind of vague political rhetoric that is hard to pin down.
It's hard to pin down exactly what makes someone wealthy versus middle class — is it a certain amount of money, or perhaps a state of mind?
Whether Mr. Rowe is the first autistic actor to play Christopher is hard to pin down, given the number of "Curious Incident" productions around the world.
Even the source of her beauty is hard to pin down, her features rendered slightly off-kilter by a distractingly wide mouth and swollen upper lip.
The fund also took note of the risks of China relying too much on credit, especially on hard to pin down shadow financing, to fuel growth.
Reasons for trends in secondhand markets are pretty hard to pin down, but anecdotes suggest this recent flood is inspired by the wildly popular Netflix series.
AS AN artist, Roland Topor is hard to pin down: his work is best characterised by the specificity of his humour and the variety of his creations.
Gud's beats played a big role in Lean's hard-to-pin-down appeal, his lush, melodic instrumentals serving up a beguiling counterpoint to the rapper's limited range.
What I (Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff) like about this episode is the way it makes sure that Watchmen remains slippery and hard to pin down.
But we still have a responsibility to work toward greater safety — and that can get tricky, especially when it's hard to pin down what "safety" really means.
Exact figures correlating the rise in heroin use with the increase in children being cared for by someone other than a parent are hard to pin down.
Flitting between fits of rage and ominous glares and weeping declarations of love for his dead ex-wife, it is hard to pin down Mr Gooding's character.
And, as has been clear over the last few nights in Philadelphia, a kind of general aura that is hard to pin down but creates an impression.
But they were not able to get good estimates of pet loss, because it is hard to pin down which pets that disappear were killed by cougars.
It has been extremely hard to pin down the details because astronomers can't observe a distant quasar and its galaxy simultaneously — the quasar is simply too bright.
And while you could put the whole thing under vague umbrellas of rap, pop, or soul, it's far broader than that, far less hard to pin down.
The word "mercurial" applies well to Geminis; as an air sign, they're intellectuals who are quick on their feet, but they're also extremely hard to pin down.
Like many of the cafe's regular bands, it has a sound that's hard to pin down, adhering to a tuneful but open-form style of its own.
A play that's a smash on one side of the Atlantic is sometimes a flop on the other, and the reasons can be hard to pin down.
Mr. Tataloo has always been hard to pin down, said Nahid Siamdoust, a lecturer at Yale University and author of a book on political music in Iran.
Bitcoin's narrative is hard to pin down, but as with early internet stocks, real traction will come in time, cryptocurrency advocate Meltem Demirors told CNBC on Monday.
Even the total number of victims is hard to pin down, thanks to botched investigations and confusion about how many of the dead officially worked as journalists.
Claim to Fame: Ms. Starn is a hard-to-pin-down creative spirit who has been a child actress, a baker and, more recently, a fashion designer.
She constructs these spirits in language with the same affection and attention to uncanny details that make her visual work so stunning and hard to pin down.
It's hard to pin down how many users are affected by any given hack, but the scale of records made vulnerable in any such intrusion can be massive.
The true amount of marijuana leaving the state is hard to pin down, said Beau Whitney, a senior economist at New Frontier Data, a national cannabis analytics firm.
Because the initial symptoms could be attributed to the flu, or later on, mental health problems, anti-NDMA receptor encephalitis can be hard to pin down at first.
While your plans might be hard to pin down, some conversations will reach solid agreements and commitments will be discussed when Venus meets with Saturn on February 18.
But it's hard to say that the response was surprising: Dylan is famously difficult, both hard to pin down and skeptical of the way he is publicly lauded.
That connection comes down to something like a thought trend, a hard-to-pin-down sense of how people are talking about themselves and the world around them.
Synthetic aperture radar, Digital Radio Frequency Memory, multispectral infra-red, Distributed Aperture System, and all kinds of other stuff with hard-to-pin-down but impressive-sounding names.
Though hard to pin down, people enjoy roller coasters thanks to a combination of speed, conquering fear and the positive effects associated with a massive rise in physiological arousal.
Their readiness to document their lives via cellphone can be highly useful since what used to be hard-to-pin-down stories in the office are now often illustrated.
Some 46% of assets are intangible, which are hard to pin down financially: for example, goodwill and "contract" assets where GE has booked profits but not been paid yet.
My goal is to make the best record that I can with what I have, but I want it to have a quality that is hard to pin down.
"Part of my fascination with folklore is that these are hard to pin down, but they get at the grassroots of our culture," he told me over the phone.
Economists say it is hard to pin down the net effects of climate change for Greenland, named by the Vikings about 1,20123 years ago during a natural warm period.
Numbers are hard to pin down, but the US Department of Veterans Affairs website says 10 to 20 percent of Iraq War veterans have PTSD in a given year.
Your ruling planet Mercury enters Virgo on August 29, helping you express yourself and sort out details that had been hard to pin down during this summer's Mercury retrograde.
It's hard to pin down how playing Enderal felt for me after 200+ hours with Skyrim (and probably just as many mods) beyond returning to that idea of clay.
It's also worth considering the context in which these numbers are appearing, which is first driven by practical concerns and then by more ethereal, hard-to-pin-down ones.
While it's hard to pin down the size of the process mining market, a Gartner estimate in 2018 indicated that revenues related to the sector were approaching $160 million.
It's often hard to pin down how many users are affected by any given hack, but the scale of records made vulnerable in any such intrusion can be massive.
ASIAN ORDERS RISE Given bankers' wariness about divulging details of deals involving China, it is hard to pin down how much Chinese investors may have purchased of recent SSA deals.
The exact number of Chibok girls still in captivity is believed to be 195 but it has been hard to pin down an exact number since the girls went missing.
It's hard to pin down exactly what changed, and no single thinker is at the root of it, but in that decade a huge volume of feminist writing appeared online.
The percentage of patients prescribed an opioid who develop addiction is hard to pin down, but the CDC estimates 0.7 percent (at lower doses) to 6.1 percent (at higher doses).
Exactly how much the Arctic contributed to the severity or persistence of the pattern is still hard to pin down, but it's becoming very difficult to believe they are unrelated.
But it has been candidates such as former Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke, whose policy proposals and even ideological standing are hard to pin down, as well as Joe Biden and Sen.
Interactions between neurons firing in the brain are also an example of a dynamical system—albeit one that's especially subtle and hard to pin down in a definable list of rules.
It's important, however, to note that the researchers analyzed a relatively small sample size, and it's hard to pin down exact reasons for individual divorces — every relationship, after all, is unique.
But when that will happen is hard to pin down, he said, adding that the document would have to be reviewed before the committee could bring the matter to a vote.
It's hard to pin down a number because intersexuality, like color, is a spectrum: It depends on which biological markers are used to determine where one sex ends and the other begins.
Jewelry always makes for a great gift idea, but if it&aposs been hard to pin down their style, or you just don&apost know where to start, take a deep breath.
For more than twenty years, Donegan's under-the-radar career has been hard to pin down but easy to pigeonhole (video artist), due to the sudden success of a few early tapes.
Other things were more you-know-it-but-you-can't-really-put-words-to-it-because-it's-hard-to-pin-down, such as the new boss who wouldn't hold eye contact with me.
That's because the survey didn't try to look for causes, which would be hard to pin down anyway, according to the survey's lead author, Chris Whaley of the Berkeley School of Public Health.
In the early days of his campaign, O'Rourke faced criticism for speeches that were often light on specifics and hard-to-pin-down policies on pivotal issues like health care and immigration reform.
And since National Sisters Day is on Sunday, we decided to celebrate this hard-to-pin-down perk of sisterhood by asking real women to share what only their sisters know about them.
When people start to get arrested because of that data, there's an obvious chilling effect, but the distinction between selling data to police rather than a hedge fund is hard to pin down.
Bridging between art and science, he certainly still has fans (a 2009 Criterion Collection edition of his films has scores by Yo La Tengo), yet his legacy can be hard to pin down.
"Vaulter," the second episode of Succession season two, gets around this by creating a fake site — Vaulter, naturally — that is like every other website somehow, in ways that are hard to pin down.
Opinion Columnist As prejudices go, anti-Semitism can sometimes be hard to pin down, but on Thursday the opinion pages of The New York Times international edition provided a textbook illustration of it.
The root of her problem was hard to pin down, and for months it felt like we were teetering on the edge of a flaming crater; but gradually, we moved to safer ground.
When you're talking about protests over a major phenomenon like a Trump presidency, it's hard to pin down because we will never know what might have happened if we hadn't been out protesting.
"It's a bit hard to pin down, and know what exactly is being claimed," said Dean Zerbe, a longtime expert on whistleblowers who represents them at the firm Zerbe, Miller, Fingeret, Frank & Jadav.
Like their semi-kinky 90s counterpart the choker necklace, belly chains also have a "you can't have me" vibe, a clutch statement for an Aquarius, whose aloof personalities can be hard to pin down.
In theory, an arms race should at least have a starting point, but in practice, it's usually remarkably hard to pin down, making for interminable disputes about who really started us down this path.
If anything, that's an underestimate; the report only covered 12 Southern states, and many of these horrific attacks went unreported or underreported, making it hard to pin down just how many people were killed.
"For historians, Nat Turner is hard to pin down," said Scot French, an associate professor of history at the University of Central Florida and author of a book about America's enduring memory of Turner.
Leaders in states across the nation are bracing for a similar year of drafting their documents in pencil, knowing that the situation will be hard to pin down until the world emerges from hibernation.
If you're drawn to a self-help book, something has gone awry in your mental universe—perhaps it's a diffuse malaise, hard to pin down, or maybe your entire life is a gaping wound.
Although the number of people living in these communities is hard to pin down — the demographic is often deliberately off the grid — Blue estimates that there are currently around 100,000 individuals residing in them.
The effect is impressionistic; it suggests a personality that is hard to pin down, almost restlessly seeking a mould (the reggae artist, the philosopher of Rastafarianism, the spokesperson for the dispossessed?), but ultimately remaining unsettled.
While it's hard to pin down one favorite food for Madison, first lady Dolley Madison popularized the frozen treat during her time in the White House and the president was one of its top consumers. 
But as accessible and generous as Barlow was in his writing and life—with his phone numbers and messenger handles posted publicly—he still remains elusive, somehow hard to pin down in Mother American Night.
The music he's released under his own name—and along with Inga Copeland, as part of defunct cult favorite Hype Williams—has largely been fractured, disorienting, and hard-to-pin down, both thematically and sonically.
Although an exact definition of Sino-Maximalism is hard to pin down, it might best be characterized as an aesthetic of "busyness," a disregard for epileptics and blank space, and a very text-heavy interface.
He is shy, reserved, and not a fan of the limelight, which makes his sudden romance with Chyna, the mother of his younger sister's boyfriend's child, all the more mysterious and hard to pin down.
He's the one walking a tightrope on some issues: On Medicaid expansion, for example, which Kasich had pursued by circumventing the GOP-led legislature, DeWine has been hard to pin down, the Toledo Blade reported.
The spread of disinformation and polarizing content stems from an array of hard-to-pin-down factors, and many of the most common approaches to the problem only tackle one element, rather than the whole.
National data on the paycheck-to-paycheck experience is hard to pin down, but a recent report from the Federal Reserve indicates that roughly 40% of Americans would have trouble covering an emergency expense of $400.
"The truth is that the Saudi-Israel contacts are episodic, expedient and hard to pin-down," said a senior Saudi Arabia consultant at Menas Associates, who requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the topic.
It's these experiences, combined with Blackman's natural, charismatic ability to soak up both characters and culture that's arguably led to the formation of an artist, and an EP, which are perpetually hard to pin down yet brilliant.
The House That Will Not Stand likely confounded some theatergoers: The tone was deliberately hard to pin down, moving from bawdy comedy to heavy drama, with a recurring drumbeat infusing the proceedings with a sometimes overwhelming intensity.
Instead, this album encompasses a hard-to-pin-down affinity with being a teen, and probably being bored, living in a suburban home that never feels big enough for all the personal space you wish you had.
I've ridden and driven a few offbeat things for The Verge, and it's clear that many of these companies (or their ideas) are so new that it's legitimately hard to pin down who their customers could be.
Currently on view through October 9 is a project called Lovers & Friends that brings together the artist's photographs, writings, and musings about relationships, loss, and desire—those big, intense, abstract concepts hard to pin down with words.
But it likely doesn't account for the full death toll — the report only covered 12 Southern states, and many of these horrific attacks went unreported, making it hard to pin down just how many people were killed.
Even as curiosity about him has grown, he's largely been hard to pin down in interviews—in some cases because the interviewer was a drunk Tim Westwood—preferring to speak directly to his fans over social media.
Indeed, gravitational waves are so hard to pin down that Italy's Virgo observatory and even the original incarnation of LIGO have been unable to trip this particular cosmic wire, though there have been a few false positives.
Narrated by a poet in a foreign country, the novel and its inflections suggest that feeling itself is almost foreign and hard to pin down; that it has to be outlined with many subclauses, digressions and asides.
Christopher Williams, a professor at the university who is Ms. McGrew's adviser, said one estimate puts the number of ducks killed at sea at 400,000 a year, although he said the numbers are hard to pin down.
Benedikt Steinar Vésteinsson's rich, sonorous voice has a unique sort of strangeness about it that's hard to pin down (though he's way more Pete Steele than Per Yngve Ohlin), and the band's onstage exertations feel manic and urgent.
But busy clients are hard to pin down for a phone call or office visit and may only be seen twice a year for face-to-face review meetings, according to a survey by the Financial Planning Association.
Freeman says Foxconn City in Shenzhen, China, might well be the largest factory ever, though the number of employees is hard to pin down: perhaps as many as 400,000 workers, making sleek and expensive gadgets like Apple's iPhone.
Kennedy's ideology could be so hard to pin down that, in 2007, Garrett Epps and Dahlia Lithwick dubbed him "the sphinx of Sacramento" in an article for Slate: Kennedy notoriously agonizes over the proper result in a case.
In some ways it is a slogan that is very hard to pin down (which I rather like) … and the fact that it is still all over the place in modern Rome helps that un-pin-down-ability.
Estimates on the size of the Italian black market for marijuana are hard to pin down, but estimated guesses from both law enforcement and private groups put the figure into the tens of billions of dollars per year.
It's difficult to find a definite answer, which is why Dr. Stefano Gualeni—an Italian philosopher, architect, and game designer—has created a video game to better understand why "soup" as a concept is surprisingly hard to pin down.
The origins of tantra are hard to pin down, since it's been around for thousands of years, but we know the ancient practice appears in Hinduism and Buddhism (just maybe not exactly as pop culture would have you believe).
It's always hard to pin down how Keaton makes herself register so fully in a role, how she does so with such clarity, beauty and realness, but her Mary from the get-go is unflappably pragmatic and touchingly humble.
When: November 21, 20093–March 19, 2017 Where: Museum of Modern Art (11 W 22016rd Street, Midtown West, Manhattan) Many of us know the name Francis Picabia, but it's hard to pin down exactly what and who he was.
Well, it's sort of hard to pin down, but whatever it is, it feels more pushy—filters and lenses that you can slap across your selfies, and information tagged to your posts, if you want to be a corporate shill.
Read more: Tech companies have raised billions of dollars from outside of venture capital like Fidelity and T. Rowe — but there's a costly downside as these investors pile onThe size of mutual funds' private holdings can be hard to pin down.
While an exact turning point is hard to pin down, the resurgence of LA jazz can be traced back to the 2010 release of 21-year-old pianist and composer Austin Peralta's album, Endless Planets, on Flying Lotus' record label, Brainfeeder.
It's appropriate that "George," a documentary about George Maciunas (1931-1978), the Lithuanian-born artist who devised the manifesto for the movement known as Fluxus, should be, like that group itself, playful, prankish and a little hard to pin down.
The chimps suffer from age-related diseases like diabetes and heart problems, and also from the effects of the experiments they were part of, infection with viruses, for example, although the lasting effects of those infections is hard to pin down.
Membership numbers are hard to pin down, but scholars estimate that in the 1980s the movement included around 25,000 hard-core members, 20173,000 more who bought white-power literature and attended movement events, and 450,000 who read the literature secondhand.
Neighbors at properties across the country that are registered in Mr. Dylan's name or that of his management company described a local legend who was hard to pin down and rarely, if ever, seen — somewhere between Thomas Pynchon and Sasquatch.
One reason for that is it's hard to pin down just what it is: A Bluetooth speaker with a wonderful lady named Alexa trapped inside, a note-taker and shopping-list-maker, a smarthome hub, a loyal companion in this lonely world.
It's hard to pin down the exact amount of plastic pollution per load because there are so many variables that may contribute to fibers shedding or not: garment construction, materials used, water temperature, detergent type, fabric softener, how full the machine is, etc.
The same vague phrasing that makes FOSTA so dangerous for sex workers also makes it hard to pin down as the cause of censorship online: Some companies, like Cloudflare and Craigslist, have explicitly said that the law is the reason they're restricting access.
Investigations into the effects of neonics on bee health has been going on for over two decades now, but it's been hard to pin down the exact effects, because bee populations are likely affected by all kinds of pressures, including climate change.
He is hard to pin down on "Astroworld," which may be the best of his studio albums but, like the ones before it, serves largely as testimony to his sense of scale and arrangement, and less as an affirmation of his technical skill.
It's hard to pin down just what you're chasing, because you're chasing something ephemeral, like "the dream"—your planetary ruler Jupiter clashes with Neptune, the planet of illusions, and you may be compelled to go after something nebulous, purely idealistic, and slippery.
A mysterious man who is described as having "a tangle of wild black hair" and wearing "a traditional outfit," and whom people constantly suspect of being a Houthi agent, Sadeq is intriguing, and his motivations—in sharp contrast to Mokhtar's—are hard to pin down.
The politics of Fox News are reactionary, but they are also hard to pin down—they are about a feeling, a combination of distaste and distrust for all the things that other people are getting away with and seem so entitled to out there.
"Being candid, we have archaic systems, multiple sources of the truth, databases galore, but it is very hard to pin down and get from multiple sources, true data," said Andy Byford, the president of New York City Transit, which runs the subway and public buses.
It's hard to pin down a single cause for the new surge of activism, but extreme events like the Camp Fire are a big part of it — one more way climate change slapped us in the face this decade and forced us to pay attention.
But even as more women explore the world, there is no clear global picture of the scale of violence against female solo travelers, making it hard to pin down whether attacks are on the rise or people have wider access to the grim news.
Each Season of BoJack Horseman has a memorable closing scene, but the final moments of Season 3 — when a deeply depressed BoJack slams on car brakes to watch a group of running horses in the desert — is touching in a way that's hard to pin down.
The exact number is hard to pin down, but given that the internal components of the phone cost an estimated $370 (and the significant costs of assembly), it's unlikely to be less than $400, which puts the total tariff bill for each iPhone at more than $100.
The exact amount is hard to pin down, as companies are not required to report how they used the tax savings, but one analysis shows that only about 4.4 percent of US workers got a wage increase or bonus as a result of the tax bill.
Last year, we debuted a fascinating video called 40 Years of Goth Style, which explored the evolution of women's clothing, hair and make-up styles in this hard-to-pin-down genre/movement/lifestyle, from UK punks to cyber goths, Lolitas, and all points in between.
In addition to the distractions Trump, Clinton, Russia, the FBI, and the media created during the campaign, it was hard to pin down Trump on specifics because no one really believed he believed what was in his policy papers, or what he said on the stump.
And the Diet session has other urgent business, including passing legislation to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free-trade deal that has yet to be passed by America's Congress and is opposed by both presidential candidates (though Hillary Clinton's precise views are hard to pin down).
It's a little more complicated than that, Hafstead allows, because emissions are global and it's hard to pin down exactly what the marginal damages are, but the basic idea is, if you tax emissions, people will emit less to avoid paying the tax wherever they can.
One criticism of its releases right now is that you have your Wii U version of a game, then a very similar, perhaps slightly simplified version of it on 24DS, and actual identity of each system, or its personality, hardware aside, can be hard to pin down.
Like many of Mr. Rodland's works, the image — titled "Goldene Tränen," or "Golden Tears" — looks like the kind of high-gloss photograph that might appear on a billboard or in a magazine advertisement, but it is unsettling in a way that can be hard to pin down.
In addition to her more traditional training—although the actual source of this information is hard to pin down, she is widely reported to have earned a green belt in aikido and a black belt in karate—the young Tura formed a girl gang to patrol her community.
The results were obviously pleasing — Barry Bedlan, the AP's deputy director of sports products, told TechCrunch that the trial only took a full year largely because between trips to games, assignments, and other duties, it was often hard to pin down sports writers to critique the automatically generated stories.
Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's message on this issue, as on many issues, was hard to pin down.
What "approval" measures in a presidency may be hard to pin down, but what it gets you is not: Higher numbers have historically meant more effective dealings with Congress — whose leaders read approval polls as a measure of their leverage with the president — and better chances of re-election.
So the documentary, though it's not particularly rewarding to watch, does achieve its goal of painting a portrait of a country that is about as disunited as it could be, thanks to economic forces, increasingly unveiled racism and an anger that continues to be hard to pin down.
But you can hear the film's influence on other parts of the song, too; there's a devotional current that runs through "That's All I Came For" similar to the one that Herzog finds in the Chauvet cave—a kind of deep, warm spirituality that's hard to pin down but undeniably present.
In some ways, this serves to cap just how high crude oil can rise in the current demand situation, and while an exact level is hard to pin down, the price action in Brent over the past two years suggests that prices above $70 will provoke a fairly rapid supply response.
AFGHANISTAN Indus R. ghotki district PAKISTAN IRAN Jodhpur Sindh Karachi INDIA 200 miles By The New York Times Though the exact number of Hindu migrants is hard to pin down, indications of a wider push to go to India can be seen in the numbers of those long-term visas.
Holistic accounting of the numbers of various species in the oceans have only begun recently, so it's hard to pin down exact numbers, but according to a 2845 report by the World Wildlife Fund, the oceans lost 403 percent of all vertebrates in just the time between 240 and 22017.
Instead, as former Microsoft Games Studio head Ed Fries puts it, the games at their best are "vista moments"—evocative and hard to pin down, and maybe best encapsulated by the camera slowly tracking out above the bluffs in Halo 3's debut trailer, Master Chief diminishing in the weight of the moment.
But while exact wait times are hard to pin down, reports and anecdotes from nongovernmental organizations along the border suggest that since this spring, metering has gone from a temporary measure at some ports to a near-constant state of affairs at most of the major border crossings where migrants arrive on foot.
By the time it expanded, to Atlanta, Paris in 2015, then London in 2016, Afropunk had earned a reputation as a place for black and POC misfits and radicals and distressingly well-dressed people to come together and celebrate being part of a subculture that was hard to pin down or name.
The only three constants that have defined genre-bending heavy sound lifers Jucifer since their 1993 inception have been their lineup (Gazelle Amber Valentine and Edgar Livengood, partners in life as well as riffs), their righteous fury, and their commitment to being completely and utterly hard-to-pin down (both musically and geographically).
I think one of the reasons The Virgin Suicides score has made such an impact over the years—having been nominated for a Brit Award, appeared on numerous best album lists, and secured a reputation as a cult classic—is because it captures a very specific feeling that is hard to pin down.
There is the camp at rest and then all of a sudden you hear this distant, hard to pin down noise, then it resolves into the hooves and then there's the chaos of the Dothraki coming and then in the middle of the fight, when things are at its worst, the sound drops out.
And its politics, or at least the cumulative politics of its presenters, can be hard to pin down: a grab bag of Federalist-style moralizing, Commentary-approved Zionism, "alt-lite"-issue broadsides against campus outrage culture, defenses of free markets that would be at home in Reason, and, er, George Will explaining why baseball is America's true national pastime.
What's driving viewership this season is hard to pin down, but Jay Rosenstein, an adjunct professor at NYU's Tisch Institute for Global Sport and a former VP of programming at CBS Sports, told CNN Business that the league has thrived early this season thanks to good match ups and strong performances from the NFL's key franchises.
Inspired by two short stories with the same title, "Barn Burning", by William Faulkner (previously adapted by Martin Ritt as "The Long, Hot Summer") and by Haruki Murakami, the film lasts two-and-a-half hours, and for a considerable proportion of that time it is hard to pin down its genre, let alone its plot.
Harris: These two candidates were on the same stage in the first debate, but never really litigated the central question that still lingers over Harris' hard-to-pin-down position on health care: Does she believe, as Sanders does, that ALL private health insurance needs to be eliminated in favor of "Medicare for All" government-run system?
As Goodman notes, false statements are not that hard to pin down and are often used to convict high-profile people when prosecutors can't necessarily prove the underlying crime, like with Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Dick Cheney's chief of staff, who was convicted for lying about his role in the leak of an undercover CIA officer's identity.
It was not just showing people who do not understand her and who do not trust her who she is as a person, or laying out her policy proposals, but also demonstrating that when she represents them on the world stage, she would do so with that hard-to-pin-down aura of leadership and power.
Investigators couldn't help but notice the house was unusually frigid: The windows had been left open and the heat was turned all the way down, making it cold enough for a bowl of ice cubes found next to Linda's body to remain frozen — and for the time of death to be hard to pin down, police later speculated, the Gazette reported.
Pub date: March 224 Kate Zambreno's genre-bending Screen Tests is hard to pin down — maybe they're essays, maybe they're micro-fictions — but the collection as a whole serves as a peek into the mind of a brilliant woman, meditating on ambition, vanity, age, art, and creativity, and drawing portraits of those who inspire her — Susan Sontag, Kathy Acker, Amal Clooney, and more.
The soundtrack hasn't been released anywhere (yet), but the launch trailer has a great song: The act of playing Sayonara Wild Hearts is, at first, straightforward, but as things progress, becomes increasingly hard to pin down, jumping between genres at the breakneck pace of a shaky pop single trying to avoid wearing out its welcome, without realizing everyone would be fine if it took a chance to breathe a little.
The name Husky Loops may sound like some off-brand bodybuilding cereal, but they're actually a gripping new rock 'n' roll band from the UK. Big on sharp, swerving riffs and unconventional arrangements, Husky Loops have a sound that's hard to pin down, but that kind of experimentation is the art-rockers' M.O. Taking guitar cues from similarly eclectic dance punks like Death From Above 1979, Husky Loops switch up their tempos a dime.
A big 5.9-inch phoneLike Great battery life, nice build, solid cameras (the AI modes are a bonus)Don't LikeAI smarts are hard to pin down, no headphone jackWith its new Kirin 970 processor, our Mate 203 Pro review unit with 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage is definitely fast, and with a body constructed out of glass on front and back and held together by a polished strip of aluminum, the phone feels quite luxurious too.

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