Sentence examples for single-minded aim from inspiring English sources

He warned that a "single-minded aim" of destroying the Taliban and Al Qaeda with a "high-tech, Wild West"' operation was not enough to win the "hearts and minds" campaign across the Arab world and to dry up the conflicts that are the breeding ground of terrorism.

This passion is shared by the people around me, as we all operate with a single-minded aim of collectively delivering a better financial future for our investors and customers.

He throws himself into things with a single-minded purpose.

This single-minded purpose left him open to death.

No, the São Paulo Symphony has a more single-minded goal: it is aiming to be one of the great orchestras of the world, which is why so much is riding on its Proms debut tonight, under new chief conductor Marin Alsop.

A single-minded sense of purpose.

But what truly moved him was Nikolay Chernyshevsky's 1863 novel, What Is to Be Done?, and Berkman felt inspired by Rakhmetov, its puritanical protagonist who is willing to sacrifice personal pleasure and family ties in single-minded pursuit of his revolutionary aims.

The future bottom line challenge seeks to accelerate a move away from single-minded financial short-termism and will aim to expand corporate accountability beyond financial gains to include negative and positive contributions to the economy, environment and society.

I was so much less directed, single-minded, so much less clear in my aims, tasks and renunciations than the young fellow I picked up at his Nottingham hotel on the Friday of the last Test.

There are few if any violence prevention interventions or organisations aimed at men that show a single-minded focus on the benefits to men of non-violence and gender equality.

His sensitivity to criticism stood in stark contrast to the single-minded imperturbability with which his greater counterpart, Abraham Lincoln, pursued his own war aims.