("What makes soda fizz? What are the basic ingredients of soda pop?") But for a much more single-minded group of single-digit New Yorkers, there is an obsession far weightier and a list of questions vastly more difficult.
A single-minded group might be confined to work on a specific task that in a changed environment may no longer be productive.
But think of these internecine battles not as tugs of war among single-minded groups; instead, think of them as often-conflicting ideas held within the brain of an individual Republican.
The Drosophila single minded transcription factor is a master developmental regulator (Nambu et al., 1991).
"The crisis in the Labor Party is caused by small, single-minded (and narrow-minded) groups which are operating inside it," he wrote in The Daily Mirror in 1981.
Al Qaeda is a literal-minded group.
But what if no trustworthy authority can control the big picture and politically single-minded individuals and small groups can easily produce unpredictable, large-scale havoc?
Led by single-minded Scotsman John Grierson, the disparate group of socially engaged chaps made hundreds of films lionising the work of ordinary people on which Britain depended.
Mr. O'Neill is describing the takeover of the Republican Party -- and consequently of the executive branch -- by what is portrayed as a group of single-minded right-wing ideologues with loyalty only to their narrow and rapacious political self-interest.
While some extreme metal bands pride themselves on sounding ruthless, Cryptopsy isn't nearly single-minded enough for that: the group's precise tantrums switch directions every few seconds.
With little fanfare, this group — a single-minded, self-renewing collection of volunteers who live in Westchester County — has, for nearly six decades, presented established and emerging artists in a concert series that arguably rivals some of the best.
