Sentence examples for single-minded intention from inspiring English sources

Thatcher went to Dublin, in November 1979, with the single-minded intention of reducing the UK contribution to the communal budget by £1bn, an objective she pursued at the risk of wrecking the summit.

By the time Odell Waller's final appeal was denied and he died in the electric chair, she had enrolled at Howard, with "the single-minded intention of destroying Jim Crow".

Every time I glance at the family photograph these days, it hangs above the desk where I draw and write and encounter my father's serious, determined, five-year-old face, I imagine that I can see that single-minded intention to escape already decided.

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

This single-minded purpose left him open to death.

A single-minded sense of purpose.

It remains to be seen whether these intentions survive investors' demands for high returns.A single-minded pursuit of growth may not be in shareholders' best interest, of course, if it leads to lower lending standards.

Mature, single-minded and respected.

"I was totally single-minded".

"They are very single-minded.

His pursuit was single-minded.