Fascinated by the blind man, I became the first journalist to write about his single-minded quest for justice.
Toward the end of the fight with Dr. Schally, Dr. Vale became disenchanted with his mentor's single-minded quest for scientific renown.
The scientific odyssey is interesting enough, but more revealing are the outrageous obstacles that he faced in his single-minded quest to sound the alarm bells about HIV.
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.
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.
His single-minded quest to unify his life and his work has had the extraordinary side effect of rendering him out of place in both: hyperreal and disarmingly present in his films; oracular and almost incorporeal in person.
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.
Sensing an opportunity to make a movie that presents the country as it is now, not simply as a historical site of atrocity, he arrived with a nine-page outline — the story of two teenage boys and the single-minded quest that comes between them — which he had written with the help of Samuel Anderson, an old friend.
