"We're driven to put a better team out there".
When central banks in countries like Japan and the United States pump more money into their financial systems, investors are driven to put their money into emerging markets where interest rates are higher.
They are driven to put the ball into the net despite all the opponents who would bully them out of the firing line if they sensed any weakness of any kind.
And always, through danger, penury and privation, the compulsion to continue with writing that doesn't seem to be getting anywhere, that he is driven to produce, as a writer friend puts it, like snails make slime.
If she is not as fast as she once was, she is still driven to put on a racing bib and find a finish line to cross, running toward age-group greatness.
The asylum seekers washing up, sometimes all too literally, on Europe's shores, are not driven to put their lives, and their families' lives, on the line because they've heard that the UK has a generous benefits system.
Not long after the official opening, I paddled out onto Middle Saranac Lake on a breezy summer afternoon, having been driven to the put-in by the folks from St . Regis CanoeOutfitters in the town of Saranac Lake, where I had traded my rental car for a rental kayak.
After getting checked in, assigned to a group (of about 12), and fitted for helmets and headlamps, you'll be driven to the put-in site.
"Denial" is Ms. Stern's plainspoken and very raw account of why, long before 9/11, she was driven to study terrorism and to put herself repeatedly into danger as she flew around the world, like some scholarly twin of the former CNN war correspondent Christiane Amanpour, interviewing committed terrorists.
