Sentence examples for single-minded goals from inspiring English sources

It was also carefully calculated, like a sleek, stripped-down hot rod built with the single-minded goals of efficiency and speed.

"It's the single-minded goal and the physical contact.

They compare Mr. Bush's mission to Ronald Reagan's single-minded goal of ridding the world of Communism.

The single-minded goal of too many high school students — pushed by parents, guidance counselors and society itself — is to get into a "good" school.

Energized by their idea to create a new epinephrine device, the twins split up to attend college but geared their studies to their single-minded goal.

Conversely, the diminishment of the parties means that the institutions with the single-minded goal of winning a majority will be weakened.

Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, called it "an entirely avoidable high-stakes game of chicken with the single-minded goal of taking more money from those who earn it".

They refuse to veer from their single-minded goal of cutting spending, blind to any plan that might improve the economy, because that might improve President Obama's re-election chances.

For now, Republicans are showing little public sign of relenting in what Mr. McConnell called "a high-stakes game of chicken with the single-minded goal of taking more money from the people who earn it for the government to waste".

None of that has in the slightest deterred House Republicans — the fire-breathing freshmen and the older members who are afraid of them — from pursuing their single-minded goal of disemboweling the government.

They hold the U.S. responsible for the division of the Korean peninsula and seem to believe that U.S. foreign policy since the mid-twentieth century has revolved around the single-minded goal of screwing them over.