Many would argue that the problems of the world are in some cases made more acute by the single minded pursuit of profits.
For example, giving people the single minded goal of taking 10,000 steps over 100 consecutive days is vital because it helps focus them on one data point.
Richard, the younger brother by two and a half years, was the more single-minded of the two, devoted to songwriting and little else; he was also known to have a blustery temper.
SIM2, the human orthologue of single minded, is expressed in the developing human brain (Rachidi et al., 2005).
This receptor belongs to the basic helix- loop-helix (bHLH /PAS (Period -Aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator-Single minded) family of heterodimeric transcriptional regulators.
7 His decades of single-minded pursuit of a distant goal of major importance, by paths not at all clear, not even sure to be possible, struck me as a tremendous model for a career in scientific discovery.
That was because of the single-minded determination of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who helped marshal an assortment of seven sheikhdoms into a federation in December 1971.
Formenti threw himself into Lachenmann's world of musical extremes, relishing the single-minded strangeness of the seven movements of Ein Kinderspiel (Child's Play).
Price is considered to signal the nadir of the reality ethic, because of her utterly single-minded pursuit of hard cash.
They compare Mr. Bush's mission to Ronald Reagan's single-minded goal of ridding the world of Communism.
Mr. Richardson has dominated state government by force of personality and a single-minded pursuit of economic development and raising the state's profile — along with his own.
