They are still a driven lot, whose numbers include Milo, a prodigy who last year, at age 10, was already mastering pre-calculus, and Mariya, a Ukrainian immigrant who strives to attain her — and her mother's — American Dream of academic excellence, one in which a grade-point average of 94.86 simply isn't good enough.
I was a driven first-generation college student who had lots to learn.
But Meehan is a driven man.
People were tormenting one another with various forms of the verb "to drive," as in "market-driven" and "customer-driven" and "A lot of people are calling this paper market-driven but it's not, what drives this paper is editorial" and "This paper has different forces driving it than something like The Nation".
If you're driving for several hours at a stretch, as I often do on weekends, what you want is a book that's long and plot-driven, with a lot of texture — a 19th-century novel, in other words.
"It's a relationship-driven city in a lot of ways, and a relationship-driven industry, and if you're perceived as someone who's always happy, then you won't get treated as carefully as someone who might go ballistic every now and then".
I'm an insecure chap, like a lot of driven people.
The rise of QuizUp and the fall of Turntable is just the latest proof that the consumer app market is trend-driven in a lot of ways — so just like in fashion, an app that is in one day can be out the next.
This single accreditation system was very student-driven, and a lot of effort has gone into helping students to understand how the new system will work.
The odds, which set the line on which so much money from sports betting rides, are carefully crafted, computer-driven models; a lot of time, effort and money goes into the setting of those lines.
"There's market-driven demand, a lot of developers who are eager to get in there". But executing on projects — which often requires cleaning up polluted sites and sometimes rezoning them — can be tricky.
