"War Machine" dramatizes McMahon's own devotedly single-minded efforts to win it nonetheless and the intellectual gymnastics involved in his own deluded and self-deluding efforts to define that elusive victory (or to define it down).
Thanks to Winton's single-minded efforts, 669 refugee children arrived in England from Czechoslovakia on eight separate train transports during the eight months that preceded the outbreak of World War II.
The Zanmi Lasante hospital serves about a million people and represents years of single-minded effort by Paul Farmer.
The rebuilding was almost entirely the single-minded effort of Rafik Hariri, prime minister from 1992 to 1998; his enemies are now in power and cutting off his permits.
In the tape, Beers, dressed in a sweatshirt and shorts, seems baffled by Gross's single-minded effort to kill him.
The anti-immigrant partisans in our country are willing to throw overboard all our rights in their single-minded effort to rid the nation of those who are living among us without residence permits.
"He is caught between California's voter-approved medical marijuana system and the Bush administration's single-minded effort to smother it," said Stephen Gutwillig of the Drug Policy Alliance, an organization that favors a change in drug policy.
Despite being supported in his assessment by leading figures in the Israeli intelligence establishment, as well as the chairman of the Knesset's foreign affairs and defense committee, Dagan was nonetheless excoriated by Netanyahu for undermining his single-minded effort to pursue a military confrontation with the country.
Cheney's willingness to ram through an ill-conceived invasion of Iraq, best exemplified by an unprecedented eight or more visits to CIA headquarters to pressure agency analysts, was typical of his single-minded effort to mould the government to the White House's command.
And Dell's single-minded effort at meeting quarterly profit numbers led to quality issues and a need to restate income.
"The congressional Republicans' single-minded effort to uphold DOMA at any cost comes at great expense to the American people and rejects our nation's heritage of equality for all".
