Sentence examples for a single-minded quest from inspiring English sources

The problems start when the noble aim of getting people to watch an informative political debate degenerates into a single-minded quest for eyeballs at any cost.

THERE was nothing unspoiled about the woods that Robert Spiegel trudged through recently on a single-minded quest for wrongs against nature.

Mr. Khoury is allied with a Christian rival of the governing coalition, Michel Aoun, a former general who has, in turn, made common cause with the opposition Shiite Muslim Hezbollah Party and led a single-minded quest to become president.

To have been at these places, to have been at the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, is to have known a moment when all the calculations of power and politics are overwhelmed by a single-minded quest.

This week, the brothers' invention — a slimmer device shaped like a smartphone — hit pharmacy shelves nationwide, the culmination of a single-minded quest that began 15 years ago and ended in a $230 million licensing deal with the French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi.

This is a mass event like no other, where locals and tourists join forces in a sacred mission: to down torrents of beer in a single-minded quest for the ultimate rush.

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Horton Foote's enchanting tale of an old woman's single-minded quest to return to her childhood home gets a memorable production under the deft direction of Michael Wilson and featuring thrilling performances by Cicely Tyson, Vanessa Williams and Blair Underwood.

The boy grows up to be a case-hardened criminal (Cliff Robertson, vainly affecting a tough-guy accent) whose single-minded quest for revenge anticipates the action movies of the '70s (and seems to have exerted a direct influence on Quentin Tarantino).

Likewise, he leaves the new leadership with a host of domestic problems, from unemployment to social security, that his single-minded quest for stability failed to address.