His point was to emphasize the need for single-minded attention to detail at every step of the climb.
"There's no reason to believe that children need to have absolute single-minded attention being paid to them with nothing else in the background," she said.
Whether an alliance with, say, Beecham or Wellcome would have been feasible or desirable could be argued, but ICI's board, with the number and range of problems it confronted, could not devote the single-minded attention to pharmaceuticals that such a decision required.
Single-minded attention to direct labor can produce unexpected consequences.
The job requires single-minded attention to the task, and I have too many other interests and commitments.
When Fenton comes home, anticipating the single-minded attention Valerie will give him, he is thrilled to find, in addition, the smell of good cooking.
Like anything, single-minded attention may need relearning in order to enjoy reading for pleasure again, but close reading in itself can be a route to better concentration.
Given my life and my personality, like most people today I can't always be "in the moment" or pay single-minded attention to any one thing.
Mr. Magnuson, 57, pursued golf with single-minded passion.
Mrs. Nesbitt shared her politics and her work ethic, and served her with single-minded loyalty.
But the Yankees, loaded with single-minded veterans, win with machine-like consistency.
