How To Use Single-minded In A Sentence
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I'd never met anyone so ambitious and as single-minded.
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Very few museum curators have the opportunity or the budget to be so single-minded, to collect in depth in a highly specialised area.
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It feeds on aphids with a single-minded ferocity.
Times, Sunday Times
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How do you turn single-minded determination into team ethos?
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In the past two years all central banks had to move well beyond any single-minded focus on inflation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nor is he suffering solely from his single-minded pursuit of Social Security reform.
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Once a field of interest has been chosen, dedication and single-minded pursuit of excellence is boundless.
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His selfishness and single-minded pursuit ‘to be someone’ has left casualties along the way.
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Told in alternating narratives (with a helpful opening guide to how many different names both women are known by), Bunny ("Faith") Crumpacker tells the story of an unhappy marriage followed by betrayal, a pregnancy of uncertain paternity and the near-numb yet single-minded decision to give up her baby.
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It was the willingness to shoulder responsibility and the single-minded pursuit of victory.
Times, Sunday Times
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To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. Individuals like myself are often called "workaholics". I question this term because that implies a pathological condition or an illness. If I do what I desire more than anything else in the world and which makes me happy, such work can never be an aberration. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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Julien approaches life and love like the video game hero, with determination and a single-minded pursuit.
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The male brain has become specialised single-minded determination, the female brain at multitasking.
Times, Sunday Times
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Musth males will single-mindedly roam the landscape looking for any available estrous females.
The Times Literary Supplement
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I think your single-minded focus on pain, however, shows that you think the level of pain involved is the only critical element of a holocaust.
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His single-minded pursuit of European union helped chase Mrs Thatcher from power.
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A few weeks ago, in an effort to cut my 2.5-mile treadmill run to under 30 minutes, I popped in "Vision Quest," the 1985 film about a high-school wrestler who comes of age while pursuing a single-minded obsession to get on the mat with the state's chiseled-from-stone champion grappler.
Don't You Forget About Them
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Numerous valuable prizes have been spurned in their single-minded pursuit of the Arc.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had a single-minded will to win.
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He felt that, single-minded and self-sacrificing as his parents were, there yet existed certain latent prejudices of theirs, as middle-class people, which it would require some tact to overcome.
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I have always been determined and single-minded, but you can never get complacent in this industry.
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Keough insisted that Rossi's single-mindedness in pursuing a gubernatorial revote has not harmed his future political career in the eyes of the state's voters.
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A group of single-minded athletes are being imbued with a sense of teamwork.
Times, Sunday Times
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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In their single-minded fervor, they are willing to maim, kill, or leave their phalli behind.
Survival of the Kindest
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Cooperative enterprise is not powered by individual reward, nor does it thrive on single-minded loyalty to an isolated corporate logo.
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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She will have to focus on basketball, become single-minded about the season if she hopes to accomplish anything.
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To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. Individuals like myself are often called "workaholics". I question this term because that implies a pathological condition or an illness. If I do what I desire more than anything else in the world and which makes me happy, such work can never be an aberration. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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The single-minded mission of commercial television today is to produce audiences for sale to advertisers of consumer goods and services.
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But incredibly single-minded in their approach to a race.
The Sun
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He adds that he "admires" pimps, for their "focus, single-mindedness, control and will power," but that "the business has become a bit sullied now.
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New York Times: “In his new book, ‘T. S. Eliot,’ the British poet Craig Raine gives us a new, more accessible Eliot, an Eliot he describes as a virtuosic fox in terms of style, and a single-minded hedgehog when it came to themes.”
Throw Michiko Into the Waste Land : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
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I doubt, however, whether single-minded dedication is the best means of judging a successful leader.
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We must have a system that is focused and single-minded.
Times, Sunday Times
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It represents a potential distraction, although any side capable of winning 13 games on the trot with a home ground as lacking in atmosphere as Vicarage Road can be described as single-minded.
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Since its inception in 1959 in Rome, Valentino had been almost single-mindedly focused on the dressiest moments in a woman's life.
Reinterpreting Valentino
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She is a woman who is single-minded, forceful and uncompromising.
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Even in the most fastidious of times it is boorishly single-minded.
Be Excellent at Anything
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She is single-minded and tone-deaf and occasionally resorts to anachronistic yoof-speak ('awks' for 'awkward').
The Times Literary Supplement
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“Underground” was the term Delia’s children used to describe her single-minded drive to write.
Wounderful You
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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The wolf hunts in packs, without the single-mindedness of the falcon, but still with a predator's instincts.
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Although he supports his mother financially, he presents him as stingy and ungrateful, single-mindedly devoted to his own success.
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And he is convinced his single-minded approach will not just lengthen his career but his life.
The Sun
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She is as ruthless, manipulative, and blackhearted a figure as we've ever seen on screen, but you cannot help but admire her for her devotion and single-mindedness of purpose.
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They were extraordinary, skating without helmets or knee pads, invading empty swimming pools like backstreet bandits, brave and single-minded and uniquely talented.
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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Their single-minded pursuit of this controversial strategy led to their fall from power.
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He had never in his life been so abstemious, nor so single-minded.
THE HELLBOUND HEART
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He'd schooled himself to ruthlessness, single-mindedly forcing his way through the jungle, hacking at anything in his path.
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Many athletes withdraw from the world in their single-minded pursuit of their sport.
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In the right circumstances, such single-minded determination can be a force for progress.
The Sun
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In this province, it appears as if corruption and the single-minded pursuit of illegal enrichment at the expense of others are liberally spread across all sectors within government.
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I dealt with her as I dealt with my own mother, who could also be obstinate and single-minded, I did my best to avoid telling Kay things I knew she did not want to hear.
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The single-minded mission of commercial television today is to produce audiences for sale to advertisers of consumer goods and services.
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Chronicling the rise and fall of trends in fiction is not necessarily a trivial activity, but inDickstein's case the single-mindedmanner in which he pursues the task does threaten to makecriticisman intellectual version of fashion journalism.
Principles of Literary Criticism
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It made him single-minded and uncompromising, and he was not known for his geniality.
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She is a woman who is single-minded, forceful and uncompromising.
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When his opportunity came to seize the party leadership, he proceeded with characteristic single-mindedness that bordered on ruthlessness.
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At 73, few could match his single-minded devotion to the cause of conservation and environment protection.
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Their single-minded pursuit of this controversial strategy led to their fall from power.
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To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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The single-minded pursuit of economic growth can exact a heavy toll on a community.
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Cooperative enterprise is not powered by individual reward, nor does it thrive on single-minded loyalty to an isolated corporate logo.
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To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. Individuals like myself are often called "workaholics". I question this term because that implies a pathological condition or an illness. If I do what I desire more than anything else in the world and which makes me happy, such work can never be an aberration. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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With single-minded purpose and consummate skill, Morel set about organizing a movement.
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She will have to focus on basketball, become single-minded about the season if she hopes to accomplish anything.
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You have the innovative ideas and single-minded determination to keep going with your plans until they work.
The Sun
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The work he seemed to reject, in 1970, was not a single-minded oeuvre, but spanned a remarkable range, from delicate and almost serene studies in red crosshatching that look a bit like a sunset imposed on Monet's waterlilies, to thick, roughly painted and dark forms in the early to mid-1960s that suggest not so much abstraction as a futile effort to paint over and blot out suppressed figurative ideas.
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It feeds on aphids with a single-minded ferocity.
Times, Sunday Times
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By being simple, straightforward, unambivalent, single-minded, can-do, we will achieve some moral and practical control of the world.
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Pots clattered; hatchlings cheeped with single-minded fury.
Snarkometer #24
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The general impression was of a scrappy and superficial campaign, facing a coherent and single-minded Government.
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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It was there throughout his playing days when he would move clubs regularly in single-minded pursuit of honours.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even as he suffers and dies he maintains his single-minded devotion to freedom, and in death he becomes a powerful martyr to the Scottish cause.
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It is single-mindedly feminist, even antimale, throughout.
So It Wasn't Jealousy After All?
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We have been schooled to admire single-mindedness, the obsessive pursuit of a single goal by a single means: Sir Steve Redgrave, whose unslakeable thirst, whose rigidity of mind, took him to five successive Olympic gold medals in rowing.
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His view is that without a single-minded purpose, Scotland will remain bogged down in stale arguments that will hold the country back.
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The instrumentals are the stars of this album; along with "Barroquita", the songs "La Muerte del Rey", "Patita" and "Atlantico" are solid, melodic and Latin-tinged folk delights that show a band of musicians who may still be developing their technical skills but are clearly in-synch as a single-minded collective.
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Miller's Batman is full of the fire of youth: single-minded, without becoming obsessive, exactly.
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Many gave up any pretence at collegiality and fought single-mindedly for their own vision of defence.
Times, Sunday Times
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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You have a single-minded determination at work and with a personal project that gets results.
The Sun
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Instead, they concentrate almost single-mindedly on the growth rate of a company's earnings, the momentum of its share price, or simply its inclusion in a market index.
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They have a fixed purpose in life, and go for it with single-minded determination.
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It's also because only single-minded determination drives change in a resistant system.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those who know him say he is professional, single-minded, and extremely determined.
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Signs are building that China's government is retreating from the single-minded focus on high growth that pulled it through the global financial crisis, and is instead emphasizing structural changes that could contribute more to expansion and jobs in the struggling West.
World Watch
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He has single-mindedly focused on running the party into the ground since he beat the silvertail Liberal leader.
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The general impression was of a scrappy and superficial campaign, facing a coherent and single-minded Government.
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No other country in Europe immolates cars with the gusto and single-minded efficiency of France.
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An accomplished pianist, he was described as a "single-minded" young man who had been shaken by the disappearance of his father, a doctor, during his childhood.
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I'm committed, single-minded and self-opinionated.
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But if they are single-minded in pursuit of victory, Edinburgh will be crushed.
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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Gates' single-mindedness has led him down some risky paths.
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Serious Saturn gives you a single-minded determination to focus on a project until it works out as you want it to.
The Sun
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He claims that he has never been so focused, single-minded and dedicated.
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Libby introduced Grace as Dr. Breen, and drove on, and Maynard gave her the title whenever he addressed her, with a perfect effect of single-mindedness in his gravity, as if it were an every-day thing with him to meet young ladies who were physicians.
Dr. Breen's Practice
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His single-minded pursuit of European union helped chase Mrs Thatcher from power.
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It was a single-minded dedication taking every opportunity to win.
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Their single-minded determination makes me realise I'll never make a movie myself.
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It is not the money per se that makes them unhappy, but the single-minded pursuit of that money.
MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE
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This single-minded, indeed simple-minded, artistic manifesto seems crude and dated, but the fiction it led him to produce is still fresh.
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The male sharks enter the cove with considerably more speed, driven by their single-minded drive to mate.
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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Charities always have great plans and members who pursue the cause with single-minded zeal.
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After 15 years in the fastest lane, he downshifted to a slower one, surfing with single-minded devotion and opening his shop.
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Each side accused the other of stubborn, single-minded, almost childish behavior.
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Beria was more treacherous, more practiced in perfidy and cunning, more insolent and single-minded, than my father.
Twenty Letters to a Father
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She will have to focus on basketball, become single-minded about the season if she hopes to accomplish anything.
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He invests his character's single-minded quest for meaning with a mixture of childlike earnestness and unpredictable aggression.
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Their single-minded devotion to the care of the dying was admirable.
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If it comes to it, probably, yes. Though manager Fabio Capello has instilled a new fairly un-English, single-minded mentality into the squad, so you never know...
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With single-minded purpose, he hitch-hikes slowly down the African continent.
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And the correspondence is evidence that he was not alone in thinking along those lines, even if he did pursue the idea more single-mindedly than others did.
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His single-minded pursuit of European union helped chase Mrs Thatcher from power.
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After the speech, Churchill Club members boogied away the night in single-minded pursuit of the groove.
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One of the book's recurrent subplots involves the industry's focus on Pulitzer Prizes, with cost-conscious executives who prefer shorter and more local stories puzzled by editors' single-minded focus on the sort of expensive, multipart reporting projects that win prizes from their peers.
Newspaper Daze
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But this single-mindedness was honed by a team of white trainers and handlers.
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The apparently mild exterior and the guileless blue eyes mask a single-minded determination to carve out a successful career.
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A group of single-minded athletes are being imbued with a sense of teamwork.
Times, Sunday Times
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I suspect that the various principles texts being cooked up by various George Masonites will not be so perfervid in their single-minded, ideological tub-thumping along pro-laissez faire lines.
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Non-attendance can so injure a child's life chances that it deserves to be tackled by a more single-minded attack than this.
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single-minded in his determination to stop smoking
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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I planned to maintain a single-minded focus on my studies, to get through and excel-with blinders on.
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Maria's single-minded rise through the company's ranks mirrors the renaissance of the German postwar economy.
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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A born again Christian with a single-minded opposition to gay marriage, Bachmann was invited by Pastor Hammond to “share her testimony” at three services held just two weeks before election day, and her appearance was advertised at Living Word for weeks in advance.
American Grace
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This fits in with that single-minded focus on the father that is necessary if he is to remain at all central.
Mothers who Leave
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He had never in his life been so abstemious, nor so single-minded.
THE HELLBOUND HEART
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It was not only single-minded attachment to their craft that defined these early hackers but their espousal of an ideology informally called the ‘hacker ethic’.
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You have the bold ideas and single-minded determination that get results with work ambitions and family projects.
The Sun
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He actually seemed to enjoy the misery, and this gave me a glimpse into Darwin's single-mindedness.
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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Their single-minded devotion to the care of the dying was admirable.
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Behind the high-principled arguments debated before the courts and the cameras, there is a single-minded quest to get and keep the power of office.
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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You have the single-minded determination that will make you unstoppable and job plans and personal projects look good.
The Sun
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The single-minded mission of commercial television today is to produce audiences for sale to advertisers of consumer goods and services.
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. Individuals like myself are often called "workaholics". I question this term because that implies a pathological condition or an illness. If I do what I desire more than anything else in the world and which makes me happy, such work can never be an aberration. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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A combination of canniness and single-minded determination is, he believes, a key to the Hawick psyche.
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I like to remain single-minded and focused on my team.
Times, Sunday Times
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This tiny falcon's single-minded ferocity in pursuit of its prey is a sight to make you catch your breath.
Times, Sunday Times
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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I planned to maintain a single-minded focus on my studies, to get through and excel-with blinders on.
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The success of the brands in Singapore and Malaysia is attributed to its single-minded focus on giving the target group of consumers what they want in the way of wearable fashion.
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Eventually Tocqueville's single-minded absorption in French affairs will lead him away from America altogether.
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His interest in rocketry and space travel became a single-minded passion.
Exploring 'Von Braun'
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They did it by their own supreme efforts and their own single-minded determination to win.
The Sun
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Oh, one place they might cut is their annual gifts to PACs and single-minded business lobbies.
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That's certainly true of Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), a socially maladroit Harvard sophomore computer nerd who, in the opening scene of the film, buzzily delineates his single-minded quest to be recruited by one of Harvard's elite social clubs, over beers with his girlfriend (the protean Rooney Mara).
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Like most successful politicians, she is pertinacious and single-minded in the pursuit of her goals.
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To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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He was introspective yet endearing, single-minded yet unassertive.
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The choreography keeps this single-mindedness through the four sections of Lou Harrison's score: often, the dancers seem to work at staying insensible of those nearby, yet their movements coordinate perfectly with others.
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The National Energy Act of 1978, which Carter pushed through Congress with single-minded intensity, tripled federal funding for solar energy research, created loans and tax credits for homeowners to insulate their homes and install renewable-energy heating and cooling systems, set national efficiency standards for electrical appliances, provided $100 million for schools, hospitals, and local governments to install energy-conservation technology, and imposed a gas-guzzler tax on inefficient vehicles to encourage gasoline conservation.
The Good Fight
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I suspect that the various principles texts being cooked up by various George Masonites will not be so perfervid in their single-minded, ideological tub-thumping along pro-laissez faire lines.
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He was an individual who was single-minded, a very demanding person, but also a very loving individual.
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He devoted his waking hours to the single-minded pursuit of his goal.
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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Like most successful politicians, she is pertinacious and single-minded in the pursuit of her goals.
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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Totally focused, he has a single-minded approach to his trade and showed tremendous character to come back in double quick time from the cruciate knee injury he sustained in January last year.
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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The single-minded mission of commercial television today is to produce audiences for sale to advertisers of consumer goods and services.
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To his grandfather he owed his own gentle spirit, to his father shamefastness and courage; he learnt of his mother to be religious and bountiful and single-minded.
Meditations
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Their single-minded pursuit of this controversial strategy led to their fall from power.
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
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Only Sir William Wallace demonstrated a single-minded resistance to English rule, for which he paid the supreme penalty in 1305.
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Either way it expressed so well his single-minded devotion to the matter in hand.
Times, Sunday Times
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A single-minded approach from which there is rarely any swaying.
The Sun
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He is one of the most single-minded and obsessive sportsmen in the world, utterly intent upon relentless success.
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The man is single-minded, stubborn even, and it seems odd that after repeatedly resisting the heartfelt pleas of his countrymen, Larsson might renege on his solemn vow.
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Its single-minded approach has paid off.
Times, Sunday Times
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This single-minded, indeed simple-minded, artistic manifesto seems crude and dated, but the fiction it led him to produce is still fresh.
