So far, the American women seem single-minded in their purpose.
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NEW YORK — Matthew Lee is a man of single-minded focus.
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I've been single-minded for the last 12 years or so.
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Blockers made a whole movie about that single-minded horny interest.
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Arise is single-minded in its commitment to recovery through faith.
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Instead, this tongue twister is the product of single-minded marketing.
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With single-minded focus, he seeks out the most dangerous blazes.
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Larger, more single-minded plates of meat are saved for dinner.
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But my single-minded swain is willing to take those odds.
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Certainly. Utterly single-minded with scant regard to anybody else's feelings?
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Today, the Navy and its single-minded mission are long gone.
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It was very freeing to be that single-minded and selfish.
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She was stateless and single-minded about the value of education.
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Is she so single-minded that she's oblivious to those around her?
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The script is just too single-minded about the concerns it raises.
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It's a handy addition to what's essentially been a single-minded device.
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Economists often argue that society is helped by this single-minded approach.
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He also acknowledged that he approaches many things with single-minded intensity.
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This film is too single-minded to take on that vexing question.
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To dig up information, Ms. Williams is stubborn and exhaustively single-minded.
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He also had a single-minded focus that could border on obsessive.
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It's a single-minded organization run by a small group of people.
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He was an unforgiving innovator of the NBA. Single-minded. Precise. Gifted.
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But when you are the controlling party, single-minded obstruction is insufficient.
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Michelangelo, more than 20 years Leonardo's junior, is disheveled, obscure and single-minded.
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Google's single-minded quest right now is to make Google Assistant absolutely unavoidable.
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Somehow, she doesn't interpret his single-minded revenge as a massive red flag.
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Why is a woman pursuing her dreams with single-minded precision considered villainous?
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CHINA'S leaders no longer pay single-minded homage to the cult of GDP.
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The president's advisers, staff, and Cabinet must be single-minded about this shift.
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It's hard to argue that they've had a single-minded focus on it.
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The story of how Amazon got there is one of single-minded focus.
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Both of them pursue these physical activities with fierce and single-minded passion.
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UnREAL The first season of "UnREAL" was a shark: single-minded and unstoppable.
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"He was highly motivated, very single-minded in pursuing his goal," he said.
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His words betray a single-minded dedication to the use of military might.
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He moved people because he was so authentic, dedicated, single-minded and pure.
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Focused, but not as single-minded as some of my tutu-wearing peers.
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He courted her with the same single-minded focus he brings to bull riding.
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Inside, it's the team and their single-minded ambition to take home the cup.
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For decades, Bayer and Monsanto have pursued a single-minded research and development program.
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That effort is so single-minded I can't decide if it's timid or bold.
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"[Pyongyang] has proved a very unreliable, single-minded country even for China," Lemahieu said.
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That single-minded focus is something the most successful people all have in common.
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His single-minded pursuit of justice brings him into conflict with Daredevil (Charlie Cox).
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But the Dosh Khaleen seem to be a pretty single-minded bunch of gals.
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"There is the tendency to see a plurality as single minded," Professor Marsh said.
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The fragments of their character have become integrated around one single-minded moral cause.
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Their bravery, single-minded determination, and commitment to African conservation is deeply deeply humbling.
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But single-minded pursuit of a nuclear accord with Iran predates the Syrian conflict.
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Ron Kim, an assemblyman from Queens, said he is similarly focused and single-minded.
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Instead, Batman is so single-minded that he comes off like a complete idiot.
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Problem is, the unaffected single minded twit in this instance, doesn't care much for others.
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Sometimes a simple data visualization captures just how single-minded our collective conscious has become.
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This is a person who is single-minded in his pursuit of what he wants.
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Single-minded profit-seeking is definitely good for investors, but not necessarily for the world.
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This character isn't content with channeling her fury into a single-minded purpose or quest.
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In La La Land, this is the sound of perseverance, determination, and single-minded focus.
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The idea is to make machines more flexible and less single-minded about a task.
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"I've never been single-minded in my pursuit of acting as a career," he said.
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"If You're Reading This," by contrast, is uncharacteristically and unceasingly paranoid, aggressive, and single-minded.
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Farah is so single-minded in her pursuits that she can learn only from experience.
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Problem is, the unaffected single-minded twit in this instance doesn't care much for others.
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Indeed, the single-minded Kim was not even aware of the final round in Rio.
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Perhaps some single-minded listeners can set all those distractions aside, but they're a minority.
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For 22 years, Ms. Fernández toiled with a single-minded focus on her own independence.
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Given her reputation, I expected to meet a fearless warrior with a single-minded focus.
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"I even disconnected from social media," he said, underscoring his single-minded focus on winning.
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But we soon see the toll that Forrest's single-minded work ethic takes on him.
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Political ideologues, by contrast, ignore facts and science in their single-minded quest to win.
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Yet no African leader has pursued with single-minded determination the improvement of household incomes.
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Instead, she was reimagined as a control freak, ruthlessly single-minded in her pursuit of perfection.
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While most competitors (including Apple) operate on the consumer side, he said Ezetap is single-minded.
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And in Massachusetts, there is nothing less controversial than single-minded devotion to the home team.
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Saudi Arabia and Turkey have had the single-minded goal of removing Mr. Assad from power.
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But only he feels as if he is single-minded, rather than exploring the chasm within.
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The Christian right did not always have such a single-minded focus on the Supreme Court.
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Soylent, a liquefied meal replacement, is already popular among single-minded coders too busy to eat.
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It's very hard to be single-minded in this world—to just stick to your guns.
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The puppy was like a furry larva, persistent, single-minded, with an absolute intensity of purpose.
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Her single-minded focus on work is presented as admirable but also something of a curse.
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He set about this with a single-minded zeal that would have made James Madison blanch.
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Likewise, gadgets built with a single-minded focus on efficiency can often backfire, subverting their purpose.
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Sanders was as determined and single-minded as ever, a fiery voice for unwavering progressive views.
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A single-minded focus on counterterrorism, with C.I.A. drones and Special Operations units hunting down terrorists.
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His single-minded focus on China and the neglect of other tariffs now imposed almost globally?
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I had come to the Savoy on a mission: a single-minded quest, with many paths.
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If there's a thematic core to this hour, it's a proud affirmation of single-minded professionalism.
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"Right now, our single minded focus is on revenue and these four cities we service," Gupta said.
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But in this moment, City Girls' unrepentant, unyielding, single-minded articulation of this idea feels exceptionally urgent.
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Why it matters: Trump has told plenty of associates about his single-minded fixation on the visual.
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Their single-minded focus on a decades- or centuries-long struggle against Western power informed their choices.
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But BARF members are so single-minded about housing that they can be hard to label politically.
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Indeed, Donald Trump is illiberal in every respect save for his single-minded commitment to private pleasures.
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Mr. Selz acknowledged that a single-minded dedication to his career had made his family life secondary.
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Now, it's fair to say that during this period, Republican presidents were not single-minded about Roe.
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It is single-minded and precise, a coming-of-age story complete with castle, magician and king.
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He was as single-minded in his mission as in the way he wanted to pursue it.
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Has horror lost some of its disreputable pleasures, not to mention its single-minded determination to terrify?
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It takes two weeks of near-perfect tennis, fitness and single-minded focus to win a major.
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We don't necessarily want a single-minded fixation on a particular idea of what A.I. will become.
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A lifelong liberal, he was hardly an admirer of Trump's ruthless and single-minded pursuit of profit.
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Other places in town serve chaat, but perhaps none with the same range and single-minded devotion.
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Like Ford, Mr. Bianchi was single-minded to the point of obsession about efficiency and streamlined production.
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They were too young at the time and too single-minded, with their focus on their sport.
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With single-minded, often secretive methods, he has led a charge to breakdown the agency's mores and mission.
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All this effort, all this labor, all this single-minded focus on landing a man, and for what?
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If he must account for any foible, it's his single-minded determination and pure love of the sport.
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The single-minded obsession of "Making the Most of Night" had an even more theatrically rising chorus melody.
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Like their al Qaeda partners, their goals were similarly clear, and their targets and leadership similarly single-minded.
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Now, analysts and spectators are debating if China has moved beyond its single-minded determination in winning gold.
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Camosy neglects to mention that those "stereotypes" of the single-minded pro-life activist are based on facts.
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The narrator's single-minded Jamaican mother is an autodidact Marxist feminist intellectual in espadrilles and a tasteful Afro.
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His leadership style, he said, stresses 'single-minded focus' like that displayed by his idol, General George Patton.
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Under its single-minded president, Paul Kagame, it is also determined to become a technology hub for Africa.
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He's single-minded and at times borders on cruel—I'm thinking of his treatment of his brother, Edward.
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Such single-minded dressing is generally a strategic choice that creates a shorthand, rendering a person immediately identifiable.
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"What they're trying to build is what we shouldn't be — conservative, obvious and single-minded," Mr. Friedberg said.
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And they have a single-minded focus on feeding: Once they're on your tail, they don't give up.
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Daenerys's messianic qualities and single-minded throne lust have always made her a dicey candidate for realm-ruling.
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"She's very single-minded, shall we say, which is generally thought of as a male trait," Thompson said.
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On "After Laughter," Paramore is single-minded again, but not of the same mind as it once was.
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For in the end the Bauhaus was a school, never a static style or a single-minded movement.
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Like the general, he is single-minded in pursuing his chosen course once he has made up his mind.
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It's not because it's my favorite game, though I do love its single-minded focus on tricks and speed.
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The Bachelor has a similar effect, just a bit more immediate, given the single-minded nature of the show.
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The mullahs have a single-minded interest in Syria, which is to engage it as their own client state.
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He could spend hours moving dirt, with a focus and single-minded purpose that I found hard to fathom.
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Meanwhile, giant insurers and hospital conglomerates with a single-minded focus on their bottom line increasingly dominate health care.
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At other times, it's clear that the restaurant can't maintain a single-minded focus on doing absolutely everything right.
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If there's one thing that Marco Pierre White is known for, it's a single-minded pursuit of high standards.
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The show wholeheartedly believes in Lou and his single-minded "vision," as expressed via his many, many sweeping monologues.
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The Obama administration's single-minded devotion to the environmental left has meant a blunt clubbing of blue collar jobs.
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If cheesecake is your obsession, Brubaker's single-minded preoccupation with that rich custard will leap right out at you.
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The result is an unapologetically feminist and furiously single-minded movie that might have benefited from more nuanced characterizations.
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Woods's rise to greatness exemplifies early and fiercely single-minded specialization: golf, golf, golf, from the age of 2.
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SINGLE MINDED After I shower I like going to movies by myself or going to a museum by myself.
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He was so much better than everyone else and so single-minded that spectators couldn't really relate to him.
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If any one quality could be ascribed to A.I. neural networks, it would be relentless "single-minded" self-interest.
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Although he may work with a single-minded determination today, his path in life was not always so clear.
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Indeed, many Democrats this year say they are driven by an almost single-minded desire to unseat Mr. Trump.
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Rich people, by definition, have gotten to where they are because of their single-minded ability to accrue wealth.
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The Mennonites navigate this complex landscape of rubble and rivalries with a single-minded focus on their stated mission.
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Basketball consumes his time and energy, and he tries to coax the same single-minded focus from his players.
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What they share is a single-minded focus on a niche, not an overarching vision to change the world.
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I feel like Micro's journey was... he's very single-minded, he just wants Frank to get him what he wants.
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When biologist Rahul Sinha started his first independent research project at Stanford last January, he had a single-minded goal.
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And here you are with the single-minded goal of killing them all — just because a voice told you to.
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But it's just as possible that the single-minded pursuit of SEO is making romance less thoughtful — even socially harmful.
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Our most sacred and special task as human beings is to document our own existence with a single-minded dedication.
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Rick Snyder (R)—had effective authority over every policy in the city, and a single-minded focus on fiscal austerity.
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Advocacy for gun-control laws may never provide the same single-minded identity that politicized gun ownership seems to exert.
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Clear Objectives: Presidents who succeed also have to be incredibly persistent and single-minded in pursuit of their ultimate objective.
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We need every country to set clear targets for ending malnutrition and then have a single-minded focus on delivering.
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Of late, however, the Postal Service has seemingly been caught in the crossfire of his single-minded attack on Amazon.
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But he has — with the help of a ruthlessly single-minded Mitch McConnell — branded the federal judiciary with his influence.
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But China's single-minded obsession with stability through repression is counterproductive in a well-functioning region that cherishes political freedom.
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Figures such as the suspected El Paso shooter are part of a network of single-minded individuals driven by hatred.
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In the credits, a Payton-shaped wooden figurine animated by the powers of sheer single-minded ambition (and magical goo).
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Koji Kojima, a Japanese surgeon who ran Vacanti's lab, urged Obokata to get more sleep, but she was single-minded.
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The Kim dynasty has been able to dictate a strategy and pursue it for decades with a single-minded determination.
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The New York Times Magazine _____ In postwar Japan, a single-minded focus on rapid economic growth helped erode family ties.
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For nearly the entire track, her lead vocal stays on just two low notes; it couldn't be more single-minded.
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Sony's e-paper tablets are single-minded little gadgets: all they do is let you read and lightly mark up PDFs.
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Bryant was nicknamed "Black Mamba" after the venomous African snake because the animal summed up his persona: aggressive and single-minded.
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In this movie, he's still single-minded and still wants to eat the boy, but he's also, on some level, right.
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The raiders seem like a single-minded bunch: as I loot the empty camp, all I find are bullets and beers.
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Seen from Asia, America is an unhappy, distracted democracy locked in competition with a confident, single-minded autocratic regime in China.
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Wu, known for his hard-driving, hands-on approach and single-minded ambition, has been detained since June, sources have said.
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"But even if I were in a relationship, I'm a single-minded individual, and I really like my freedom," Lizzo said.
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Imagine a Little Clapper that's just a few inches tall, sitting on your desktop, cheering you on with single-minded intensity.
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Norway has just 5 million people, which means the music scenes in the different cities are small, but never single-minded.
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In the end, it made for an unusually single-minded, topical approach to what is usually a thematically sprawling awards show.
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Lil Wayne's single-minded focus on being the best rapper seemed to shift as he reached this period in his life.
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This single-minded, ideological agenda could undermine young people's understanding of sex and relationships and lead to unintended pregnancies among teens.
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His focus on his own misery, and his single-minded determination to carry out his plan, struck her as self-absorbed.
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But the system also had its critics, who warned that a single-minded focus on reported crime data was not enough.
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Even animals, for whom sexual urges are inexorably linked to olfactory sense, don't carry this single-minded pursuit through waking hours.
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Office complexes, highways, airports, shopping malls, steel mills — some barely used — stand as monuments to a single-minded devotion to growth.
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The happiness and high spirits of his early teens vanished, leaving behind a determined, withdrawn, highly disciplined, single-minded young man.
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The art world hardly ever embraces single-minded women in the middle of their careers, whereas with men it is different.
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The single-minded mission among Democrats partially explains why Joe Biden stayed on top of the Democratic field for so long.
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His advocates explain that Asperger's can result in a single-minded devotion to a particular thing — in Mr. McCollum's case, transit.
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If there was a unifying theme through Douglas's life and career, it was an almost single-minded determination to press forward.
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He is 22004-1-2 in singles, the format where his superior ability and single-minded focus come to the fore.
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They attended college and developed their own businesses, rejecting the advice of experts to adopt a single-minded approach to athletics.
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The organization, composed of doctors and other public health professionals, surely is single-minded about its mission to reduce pulmonary disease.
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In Ava DuVernay's When They See Us, Fairstein is depicted as single-minded and racist in her pursuit of these boys.
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The difference, as documented by Spruill, was in its single-minded pursuit of those power brokers Dornan had commended to it.
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Cage turns up the dial on his natural intensity to 11...thousand as he goes from doting dad to single-minded psychopath.
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Last year Bain reported that in 2007-16 a sample of 102 conglomerates underperformed a group of 287 more single-minded firms.
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To be sure, business-facing startups are less prone than an Uber to burn cash in a single-minded quest for scale.
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In science, winning a Nobel Prize is less about being a single-minded genius and more about being interested in many things.
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He is also single-minded, driven by an inkling that "there's still more to discover, there's something I'm missing" in the part.
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Perry lauds Reagan for his being "single-minded" and focusing on campaign promises like tax and budget cuts during his first year.
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"Yeah, I did think we were OK (after the pit stop)," said Keselowski, who has a single-minded purpose after his elimination.
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Letissier's single-minded, auteurist gaze is something she shares with a lot of pop's great visionaries, among them Kate Bush and Rihanna.
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Though single-minded about returning to his home country for good, Ray's a pragmatist first: "I need some international experience," he admitted.
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Her single-minded determination have won her fans of all ages and she has also earned respect for living by her ideals.
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"Congress should establish an independent commission that has the staff, resources and single-minded focus necessary to investigate this matter," Schiff said.
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It was that single-minded focus that brought him to Evolve, the wrestling organization long considered the on-ramp to the WWE.
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" On the inside, however, they are closed off and single-minded, their private thoughts more along the lines of, "Let's start already.
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Damian Lewis, as a single-minded British agent, proves better ballast to Mr. Skarsgard and together they suggest what might have been.
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He has a cold, single-minded fanaticism for the Führer, and you could spot him as a bad guy a mile away.
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It's not hard to see the work as a symbolic exercise in which single-minded focus on cultural tradition leads to obliteration.
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The spinning car required constant and single-minded focus, which reminded Kanepi of the aspects of tennis that she loved the most.
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Zeitlin's grand experiment of keeping Hollywood at arm's length has also meant he could maintain his single-minded approach to making movies.
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Hungry City 8 Photos View Slide Show ' It's almost impossible to walk with single-minded purpose down Main Street in Flushing, Queens.
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But the beauty of being Trump is that he is single-minded enough to know what he wants out of each leader.
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FBI agents and analysts are dogged single-minded seekers of truth who do not let outside factors influence their hunt for facts.
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Privately, the current managers of United and City are far more similar than either would like to admit: intense, driven, single-minded.
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Japan was the first to take off as its people swapped military uniforms for sarariman suits in pursuit of single-minded economic reconstruction.
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In a mess of befuddling plots and flashback shenanigans, her performance as the single-minded, fierce Maeve was the highlight of the show.
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But goodness, when he tried to leave Emily behind in the dust, it felt like the show's single-minded storytelling at its worst.
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Over a trundling beat by Cashmoneyap, SYPH and Smoke make a case for single-minded Mississauga traphouse rap; anti-partying and pro-hustling.
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He'll have a single-minded focus on a clear mission, a quality of a man who often defines himself by his Marine background.
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By the next Bauma, scheduled for April 2022, I suspect that my son's single-minded devotion to earth moving will have slipped away.
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Jon Pack, a 42-year-old photographer in Brooklyn, was happy to hear that his single-minded manner might be undergoing a rebrand.
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He starts to obsessively question his humanity, becoming single-minded in his desire to reunite with his alien mother and leave this world.
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THE POISON SQUAD One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century By Deborah Blum 24 pp.
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Or is this just how Big Pharma always operates, dodging the law and relevant moral principles in single-minded pursuit of Big Profit?
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On his second day in Buenos Aires, Mr. Trump said little about global security or diplomacy, keeping a single-minded focus on trade.
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To follow that with this sort of single-minded exploration of sausage is a little bit nerve-racking, to be honest with you.
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In the interrogation room, everything Payton says to exonerate himself just emphasizes his single-minded narcissism and puts him further in the hole.
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Mr. Breaux riffs on the work he did as a single-minded swimmer in "Red Speedo," portraying another young man ungifted in introspection.
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It takes a lot to force soccer to allow events in the real world to interfere with its single-minded, self-regarding focus.
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By most accounts, Kalanick was maniacally single-minded about Uber, and doesn't seem to have the diversity of interests that Paul Allen enjoyed.
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President Rodrigo Duterte's single-minded campaign against drugs has had serious side-effects beyond the widely reported killings and gross human rights violations.
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St. Thomas's single-minded focus on music, combined with its ornate rituals and the ceremonial red robes worn for performances, make it unique.
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"ShETHER" is by turns hilarious and worrisome, as much an indictment of Ms. Minaj's weaknesses as Remy Ma's single-minded obsession with them.
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Straight-talking Thunberg has won fans of all ages for her single-minded determination and her straight-talking when speaking to the powerful.
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Meanwhile, it paid its executives exceedingly well, and tied their compensation to shareholder returns, thus encouraging a single-minded focus on stock price.
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It will benefit from the perception that the SNP's single-minded pursuit of independence has distracted it from the business of running Scotland.
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Behind the scenes: In single-minded pursuit of a border wall, Mr. Trump has virtually pressed pause on the rest of his agenda.
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That said, knowing Peyton's single-minded obsession with the sport, him playing until he's dragged away kicking and screaming shouldn't be ruled out.
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But Apple's single-minded devotion to USB-C shines through here as well, with the UltraFine 5K only offering three extra USB-C ports.
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"It is a purposeful sport, single-minded," Hoppe said, adding that Germans received high-level training from a very young age given the competition.
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For artists that means either accepting business wholesale as received wisdom — which often turns people into single-minded self-promoters — or rejecting business outright.
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As they drift closer to her destination, he's drawn to her single-minded resolve to see Earth, even as he prepares her for disappointment.
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" Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "AG Barr has thrown out his credibility & the DOJ's independence with his single-minded effort to protect @realDonaldTrump above all else.
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Rami Malek takes on Queen's iconic frontman Freddie Mercury in the highly-anticipated film Bohemian Rhapsody — and he prepared with a single-minded focus.
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Since graduating from Harvard in 2007, she has had a single-minded focus: giving women and girls around the world access to maxi pads.
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Not caring about making everyone happy, or wanting everyone to like you, but being single-minded in getting what you want at any price?
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Guy, ever the opportunist and single-minded in his focus to score those sweet Endgame premiere tix, immediately offered Reynolds gift up in trade.
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Born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1924, Wood had a single-minded desire to enter the motion picture business since childhood, regardless of skill.
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It was hardly lost on Wall Street that the famously single-minded investor might leverage his new role to advocate for his own investments.
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"If you've ever seen a tiger lock eyes on its prey, it's really intense and they are single-minded at that point," he said.
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As Leonora's brother, Mr. Tézier shows both Don Carlo's implacability and the utter exhaustion of a life spent in single-minded pursuit of vengeance.
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Throughout his career, Sanders has had a single-minded focus on economic inequality and the power of the rich — and so has his campaign.
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Other than his single-minded pursuit of a border wall, Mr. Trump has all but put on hold advancing the rest of his agenda.
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It lays bare how much leverage the United States has lost in Syria, where its single-minded focus has been on vanquishing Islamist militants.
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If the progress does peter out, though, it could mean that years of single-minded effort will have crowded out the next crucial breakthrough.
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Change never comes easily in South Carolina, a state populated by stubborn iconoclasts who can be single-minded in the pursuit of hopeless causes.
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In Knausgaard, artlessness is inseparable from relentlessness, and the relentlessness takes the form of a single-minded inquiry into one person and his world.
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But many Chinese have embraced a different character instead, a local party chief named Li Dakang with a single-minded focus on economic growth.
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The business can be single-minded in its strategy, going from being a portfolio of companies with different models, to one with a sole focus.
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" The inauguration address by the Democratic first-time government office holder promised a new direction for Illinois, "with leadership that abandons single-minded, arrogant notions.
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Shere Khan is a single-minded villain in the animated film, someone who wants to gobble up Mowgli because man doesn't belong in the jungle.
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Henry's world of options infuriates Daniel, who feels penned in by life; Daniel's cynicism breaks gentle Brit's heart; and Jana's single-minded drive annoys everyone.
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But they share a single-minded belief that being competitive in as many precincts as possible will yield significant gains at the caucuses on Monday.
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Once the sun enters single-minded Aries on the 20th, it pays to pare down your schedule to only the activities that are most important.
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The "all new" iPad takes more than a few design cues from the iPhone line, continuing Apple's single-minded focus of eliminating the world's bezels.
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In fact, with the exception of the single-minded Roomba line, you'd be hard-pressed to name a product that has truly hit mainstream acceptance.
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Devoid of humanity and single-minded in her thirst for destruction, Akasha serves as a fatal warning that vampires are abominations, regardless of their allure.
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There are those that rob the light from your eyes with their single-minded obstinacy: Kobe, Michael, Cliff Paul's twin brother on a good day.
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The lessons are so treacly, and their delivery method so single-minded, that the Valley Girl phrase "gag me with a spoon" springs to mind.
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Clearly, Mr. Miller's controversial and single-minded dedication to his mission virtually guarantees that Mr. Trump's prejudicial immigration policy will be both sustained and strengthened.
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Clearly, Mr. Miller's controversial and single-minded dedication to his mission virtually guarantees that Mr. Trump's prejudicial immigration policy will be both sustained and strengthened.
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Thanks to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's single-minded obsession with symbolism and big PR victories, the subway finally opened to the public on January 1st.
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Just because you're a creative doesn't mean that you can't be single-minded – even when your passion issomething as obscure and incredible as, say, technicolor pasta.
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They see athletes as uninformed on the issues, unappreciative of their own financial good fortune, and uncommitted to the single-minded focus demanded within professional sports.
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And blessed by falling oil prices, his single-minded approach succeeded in halving the inflation rate from the double digit levels prevailing when he came in.
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Through some magical form of cinematic alchemy, Linklater's single-minded focus on characters translates into engaging moviegoing experiences that feel both incredibly personal yet undeniably universal.
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This isn't a single company sharing its vision for the next few years through the single-minded alignment of projects from internal studios and external partners.
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In a recent New York Times profile, his single-minded push for attention was just on the verge of coming off as desperate rather than endearing.
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"This sport tends to reward a single-minded focus, and some of that advocacy to a certain extent probably detracted from her athletic accomplishments," Thomas said.
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They're worried that the near single-minded focus on breastfeeding often causes hospital staff to overlook risky behavior, unintentionally putting babies and mothers in harm's way.
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Initially, the LCAV was "single-minded" in its pursuit of an assault weapons ban, Robyn Thomas, the current executive director of the Giffords Center, told me.
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"There's a kind of monomaniacal gene that you have to have, a sense of single-minded pursuit, that Sy at his best exemplified," Mr. Remnick said.
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The Interpreter Within a foreign policy otherwise characterized by its haphazardness, the Trump administration has pursued one issue with single-minded intentionality: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Debauchery was pursued with a single minded passion, but the lack of any significant trouble is perhaps proof that an egalitarian approach can work perfectly well.
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But in more affluent areas, it is driven by several factors, primarily a single-minded emphasis on college as the sole marker of success, he said.
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"The Meritocracy Trap" is an exhausting book—bombastic, repetitive, and single-minded to the point of obsession, a mixture of Cotton Mather, Karl Marx, and MAGA .
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The better way is to be Isaiah Berlin's versatile fox, not a single-minded obsessed hedgehog, or to embrace Machiavelli's virtues of imitation, adaptation and approximation.
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The video then fades to black and the word "Really?" appears — an attempt to paint Sanders as a hypocrite given his ostensibly single-minded, uncivil supporters.
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They outlasted the accomplished cohort they started out with, players like Martina Hingis and Jennifer Capriati who took a more traditional, single-minded approach to tennis.
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Now this single-minded insurgent is the most powerful individual in the British government, vaulted into Downing Street as Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief strategic adviser.
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This is how things can work in Albany, when a single-minded executive controls an opaque budget process, when wheeling and dealing occur behind closed doors.
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Those millions, as well as Dubai's single-minded determination to always be ahead, likely inspired authorities to announce the World Future Sports Games, tentatively scheduled for Dec.
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Pope Francis has strived to end the church's single-minded focus on the issues of personal morality, mainly abortion and gay marriage, with which they are preoccupied.
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The trailer describes it as the following, "Three stalwart heroes and their single-minded mission for the sweet elixir of life: beer," so it could go anywhere.
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He represents the world order that Trump has kicked against: Consensus based on the idea of shared values rather than the single-minded pursuit of individual interests.
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Even amid a growing backlash to Big Tech, evoking a no-nonsense startup retains some appeal, with its suggestion of scrappy agility, innovation, and single-minded focus.
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It would be a grave mistake for the party to believe that the only way to defeat the Republicans is to become equally single-minded and extremist.
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At Pasquale Jones (as at the French-Italian L'Amico and the California-Italian Upland, among others), pizza is not a single-minded pursuit but a menu category.
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Mr. Benioff has often treated his company a bit like a start-up, both in his generous stock grants to employees and his single-minded decision-making.
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Taking the negative comments with a pinch of curry powder, I picked up my camera, loosened my belt, and headed to Rusholme for single-minded curry consumption.
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But if you want your Frank Castle to be a single-minded avenger, heed the words of one of his fellow construction workers: "He ain't all there."
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The Borg, a single-minded robot entity, then turned him into Locutus, who went on to lead the drones in the killing of thousands of Starfleet personnel.
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The show is nuanced and strange and in its third season promises to get even more twisted as Rebecca embarks on a single-minded quest for revenge.
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Pousette-Dart's career is proof that the art world hardly ever embraces single-minded women in the middle of their careers, whereas with men it is different.
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Mr. Xi has also been single-minded with what he sees as China's territorial integrity, whether it concerns Tibet, Taiwan, the South China Sea or Hong Kong.
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Last weekend, tens of thousands gathered in London to protest what they decried as Mr. Johnson's disregard for democratic norms in his single-minded pursuit of Brexit.
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During his campaign, Mr. Trump predicted 4.133 percent annual growth, and his actions since Election Day point to a single-minded goal of short-term job creation.
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Wind whipping and clouds swirling, she clings to the side with teeth gritted, in single-minded pursuit of a lever to prevent the balloon from ascending further.
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The address in January, critics said, reflected the president's nearly single-minded priority for the Department of Homeland Security, which employs nearly 250,000 people in seven agencies.
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And with the accession of Kim Jong-un after the death of his father in 2011, North Korea has been much more single-minded in its atomic ambitions.
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"He was single minded at restoring the EPA to its proper statutory authority and ending the burdensome regulations that have stifled economic growth across the country," he said.
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Though he stops at one point to lean against a window and talk to a passerby, he typically evinces a single-minded purpose: walk, stop, stand, air out.
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But in Sir Roger's view, these critics' single-minded focus on Wagner's anti-Semitism means that they fail to understand the many other ideas explored in the operas.
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Some Greeks treated Paul's ministry with "amused tolerance"—they were aristocrats of the spirit, wealthy in their own philosophers and gods, looking down on oddly single-minded parvenus.
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The result is a relative paucity of memorable stories, and an absolute surfeit of memorable songs—more, surely, than would exist if Strait had been less single-minded.
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The single-minded artist fending off compromise in order to realize a vision is a powerfully romantic narrative, but great art is just as often about effective collaboration.
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Warmbier entered the country "for the purpose of bringing down the foundation of its single-minded unity at the tacit connivance of the U.S. government," the report said.
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But there's also a tension in examining without celebrating the idea of what happens when you have a single-minded creative person who won't collaborate on some level.
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Sounds to me like this is a job for small, focused, innovative startups with a single-minded devotion to solving one facet of this problem for the industry.
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The South African painter Cinga Samson's first U.S. solo show, "Amadoda Akafani, Afana Ngeentshebe Zodwa (men are different, though they look alike)" at Perrotin, is triumphantly single-minded.
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Gauri Lankesh Patrike mostly jettisoned the literary entertainments and ideological unclassifiability that characterized her father's paper and evolved into a single-minded political broadside against the right wing.
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The single-minded focus on staying alive for a year begins at the time of a transplant program's initial certification by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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She began with a single-minded goal, but when she went to Space Camp and learned about the process for becoming an astronaut, she made a key decision.
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But it also resonated with fans, thanks to its almost single-minded focus on telling a story about love, which was a rarity in games at the time.
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It's easy to dismiss these parents as single-minded helicopter parents who want to, and can afford to, remove each and every barrier between their children and success.
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David Cage is a single-minded creative, a man who still wants to connect video games to motion pictures, even though his own form argues that he shouldn't.
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In an essay on Gandhi, George Orwell argued that the essence of being human is in the imperfect flux of life, not in the single-minded purity of sainthood.
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But some members of the German delegation did privately wonder what level of cooperation could exist between the two leaders given Trump's single-minded focus on the NATO matter.
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And that notion of something so powerful and single-minded that it eats you without killing you was so chilling that it became an important moment in the world.
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Sanders's single-minded focus on income inequality won him fans, but it also allowed Clinton to cast her opponent as a single-issue candidate and a foreign policy newb.
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The editor said that Ngo didn't seem interested in objectivity or the norms of journalism, and was baffled by his single-minded focus on the dangers posed by Islam.
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This single-minded urgency of warning heathens about the demons around them, while attempting to comment on controversial issues, often leads to narrow-minded portrayals of a complex world.
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Similarly, Trump's single-minded pursuit of unilateral trade restrictions on steel and aluminum threatens American jobs in downstream industries and in export sectors that would face eventual foreign retaliation.
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Even before sessions formally began, the band met up at George Harrison's house to record demos of each new song they had — and unprecedented show of single-minded teamwork.
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Both women harbor an increasing sense of dread, but Jane is the practical one, single and single-minded until she meets Willie, the son of her father's new fiancée.
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According to Taylor, Gordon Sondland , the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, spoke with Trump by cell phone from a restaurant in Kiev; the President's emphasis was single-minded.
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Following a brief respite from obsessing about tariffs and potential trade wars, market participants are back to a virtually single-minded focus on Federal Reserve policy and interest rates.
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"He always talks about being a better person and creating relationships that are going to last, about not being single-minded about hockey," said Chris Brown, Greg Brown's nephew.
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She jokes around with her bandmates, laughs a lot, but—as in the rest of her life—attends to the important business at hand with a single-minded intensity.
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Why it matters: In the late 1950s, the U.S., facing a similar momentous challenge in Sputnik, threw all its resources into a single-minded effort to dominate the future.
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"He was single-minded at restoring the E.P.A. to its proper statutory authority and ending the burdensome regulations that have stifled economic growth across the country," Mr. Inhofe said.
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Every day without fail, he continues to put pencil to paper with such single-minded focus that he doesn't see his own career arc, or plan for the future.
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In official speeches, President Xi Jinping speaks of a country that has moved beyond the single-minded pursuit of economic greatness, to one prioritizing the happiness of the people.
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Becoming the oldest No. 1 in ATP history could turn that debate into a filibuster, and here he is, tantalizingly close without having been single-minded about the chase.
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America intervened and killed a lot of civilians in its single-minded pursuit of the Islamic State terror group, a symptom of the region's ailments, rather than its cause.
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That single-minded focus isolates students from educational opportunities outside China, said Andrew Chen, the chief learning officer of the WholeRen Group, an education consulting firm based in Pittsburgh.
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Single-minded and predatory, he sets his sights on the naïve heiress Susan Brown (Heather Sears), while recklessly pursuing the worldly wise but unhappily married Alice Aisgill (Simone Signoret).
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And like many talented student athletes with a single-minded determination to excel, Aaron and his fellow gamers at the University of Washington are dedicated to making eSports their career.
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Compared to his very human opponents, who struggle with their very human hangups (like love!), the Night King demonstrates a single-minded purpose that Daenerys could only dream of achieving.
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All of the moves point toward the perceived way forward for the industry: 3D printing for production, moving past a single-minded focus on prototype to an end use product.
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The main plot itself also offers a lot of variety, making it feel more like you're waging a war on multiple fronts than being driven by a single-minded mission.
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"I've never seen voters more single-minded than on the issue of beating Donald Trump," Rendell said, adding he would work to win Pennsylvania for whoever emerges as the nominee.
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Her scenes with Chris Pine crackle with chemistry, and her determination and single-minded pursuit of a cause give the illusion that she's a lot older than she actually is.
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His frantic energy persists, but it is turned to the single-minded pursuit of new, ever weirder sounds to use in his music, sampled from his compendious collection of records.
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He is a single-minded man, and when he makes his weekly predictions for ESPN Insider and gets something wrong, he spends hours examining how that could have possibly happened.
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I was going to mention this line in my intro post to this blog and make some point about blogging and single-minded focus, but of course I got distracted.
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But Ms. Allinder, 57, an architect, said that did not translate to an automatic vote in the primary election for Mr. Kobach, whose single-minded focus can leave her unsettled.
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In a huge Democratic field for president, Inslee's single-minded mission gave him serious clout among climate groups, but it ultimately didn't help him break through to a larger audience.
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It also risks making him at times appear out of touch with the realities of the race: Mr. Sanders has steamrollered through successes and setbacks alike in single-minded pursuit.
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On one side is Ms. Bogart's ability to explore the emotion behind words and movement; on the other is Ms. Streb's courage and single-minded conviction to create human daredevils.
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Although he wore a T-shirt with the image of a pinball flipper and the words "Keep Calm and Flip On," Mr. Grant paced with single-minded intensity between turns.
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Like Driver, Charlie is obsessed with craft, and frequently single-minded in his dedication to it; also like Driver, he's from Indiana and has a distant relationship with his parents.
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"After I went there, my husband and I ended up teaching at Brown for 15 years, and I can see they want people who are very single-minded," she said.
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The 78-year-old grandmother of 9, often criticized for not being "likable" enough, has pushed through legislation, including the Affordable Care Act, with single-minded focus and unparalleled political acumen.
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The anti-choice movement's willingness to lay down the lives of Americans in pursuit of their single-minded mission to destroy Planned Parenthood lays bare the true motivations driving their cause.
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But Trump's nonchalant language about how easy it is win a trade war and his single-minded fixation on trade deficits suggests he might be underestimating the costs of his strategy.
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LONDON (Reuters) - On court Novak Djokovic is taking tennis to extraordinary new levels with his single-minded obsession with winning; off it the Serbian is more than happy to share power.
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TO ME, THAT RANG A LITTLE BIT HOLLOW BECAUSE IF ANYBODY HAS BEEN SINGLE MINDED ABOUT PUTTING THEIR COUNTRY'S INTERESTS FIRST OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS, I THINK IT'S BEEN CHINA.
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Given their autonomous nature and single-minded commitment to their own clans, though, tribes in this area have historically troubled not just invaders, but Kurdish nationalists determined to unify their people.
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The single-minded pursuit of one intense pleasure at the expense of other aspects of life that bring meaning and pleasure is also counterproductive to living a rich and enjoyable life.
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They had help from others, but it was their fierce determination, hard work and single-minded devotion to clients and CAA that turned a fledgling talent agency into an entertainment colossus.
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Saving the legacy of ''Maestro Capucci'' is a quixotic pursuit, perhaps, but one that fits with her single-minded mission: preserving the history and art of Rome, no matter the cost.
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With no Steph Curry, Cleveland ramped up its already-aggressive pick-and-roll defense with a single-minded focus to squeeze the ball from Kevin Durant's hands every chance they could.
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Finally, this is not about pathological examples such as hyperintelligent paper-clip factories that destroy all of humanity in single-minded efforts to optimize production at the expense of all other goals.
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It's a sharp metaphor, one that conveys Newton's defining characteristic - he's single-minded in his pursuit of duty, refusing to be distracted or deterred by anything that might stand in the way.
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While Saitama is pretty laid back, the other characters he encounters, whether they're friends or enemies, tend to be extreme caricatures of anime characters with driven, single-minded purposes and deep backstories.
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After catching Drake in concert some weeks ago, Tyler Morrison did some online digging with the single-minded purpose of confirming a wild idea: Drake has hooked up with Kim Kardashian West.
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It acknowledges that single-minded devotion is what lets characters like Hunt do what they do, while also admitting it would make them incapable of adapting to any kind of normal life.
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Tickled is what happens when you put power, wealth, and privilege into the hands of an internet troll with a single-minded goal: to crush his enemies and film people being tickled.
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Its inspired and single-minded purpose is to chronicle any grasping attempts by music writers to characterize Mr. Casey, the talky, confrontational lead vocalist and lyricist of the Detroit postpunk band Protomartyr.
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" And maybe there were fans of the left-leaning satire of "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" who were made uncomfortable by the more single-minded focus of "The Nightly Show.
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It teaches us about how we know, how we organize and discipline our knowledge, by the specimen of this strange, cruel, and single-minded gentleman doctor of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Democrats need to show voters they will not be distracted into a Javert-like, single-minded pursuit of a president who, Mueller and Barr aside, should be removed next year by voters.
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But in all these years, I have yet to see a child stung by Sphecius speciosus, though I have witnessed a lot of alarmed parents and single-minded cicada killers ignoring them.
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Barber posited that classical liberalism's single-minded emphasis on maximizing individual freedom was an extreme reaction to the oppressive restrictions on individual liberty under feudalism, a system the Swiss never directly experienced.
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The Warriors, with the sort of single-minded focus that drove them to the N.B.A. championship last season, committed themselves to a no-frills dribbling drill, working their way around those cones.
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The House passed an anti-bigotry resolution that was a sideways rebuke of Omar (and a missed opportunity "to confront anti-Semitism with the single-minded focus it requires," observed Frida Ghitis).
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The glittering skylines in once-sleepy suburban neighborhoods around Washington are the artifacts of nearly two decades of a single-minded focus on national security to the exclusion of many other priorities.
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Many Vermonters who take satisfaction in Mr. Sanders's progressive message may also wonder whether his single-minded focus on economic inequality and his relative narrowness of experience would make him a good president.
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The single-minded goal of maximizing test scores has been a blessing for the textbook market, which forces schools to buy expensive "evidence-based curricula" which has been "proven" to maximize test scores.
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Brady, a fast-talking chemist in his late 210s who sports a graying buzz cut and rimless glasses, has a wry, self-deprecating humor that belies the single-minded determination of his quest.
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They may achieve a lot of their substantive policy agenda — Paul Ryan has a single-minded focus on taking income and in-kind support from poor people, and he'll achieve some of that.
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Julia's single-minded focus on sex would feel off-putting, and the book shallow, if Rathbone weren't so clear-eyed about where that focus comes from: namely, a sense of emptiness and stuntedness.
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HARD-DRIVING, HANDS-ON Known for his hard-driving, hands-on approach and single-minded ambition, Wu is not the first high-profile executive reported to be targeted or questioned by Chinese authorities.
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Clark participated in the crime with other activists, and described herself as a "single-minded fanatic ... at war with America" and "a blinded revolutionary," according to New York State Department of Corrections records.
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I stand with my fellow intersex people, and I stand with my fellow trans people whose entire identity of who they are is being targeted by the single minded bigots of our government.
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"What I'm interested in doing is not just the obvious, single-minded point of view but rather express all sides of that equation," Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter of the new AHS season.
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Its single-minded focus on "radical Islam" ignores evidence about the diversity of those who turn to violence, as well as the role of religious communities in identifying and thwarting potential terrorist threats.
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But in their single-minded focus on IS, they have turned a blind eye to Kurdish infighting, sent copious arms and provided the air cover to expand Kurdish control in Syria and Iraq.
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IN 22015 our readers were less single-minded than last year, when Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump dominated not only the news agenda but also our list of most-read articles.
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At the recent National Education Association forum in Houston, 10 Democratic presidential hopefuls discussed their big-spending education plans and many assured the union of their single-minded devotion to traditional public schools.
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The movie, though, isn't yet another plea to restart the lunar program; instead it's an examination of what Captain Cernan and others lost in their single-minded quest to get to the moon.
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They rank right up there with the alien from Alien and Sadako from The Ring in terms of habitually recurring evil forces with a single-minded purpose: to destroy everything in their path.
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It's a sign of how single-minded Elliot has become in his pursuit of vengeance that he no longer has the time or the inclination to talk to his "friend" in the audience.
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In recent years, Waters has brought a single-minded discipline to advocating the things she values: organics, local farms, methods of buying and cooking food that a 19th-century French housewife would recognize.
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But over the past three decades a single-minded focus on profit and other narrow metrics of success has led not only to outrageous prices but also to great suffering, addiction and death.
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During his conversation with Chalamet, Cudi "described his own lows and the single-minded determination that forced him to double down on his efforts to perform his way out of trouble," writes Riley.
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This originally referred to the obsessive focus on particular areas of popular culture such as animation, video games or comics but is now more generally applied to a tendency to single-minded connoisseurship.
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Now think about the cities we have or the world we will likely have because of a single-minded pursuit of profit and ask if the absurdly low tax rates are worth it.
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We were never sure what the pig was after or whether it was, in fact, not a pig but some single-minded soul despair turned into a pig, some devil worthy of mercy.
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I have no great insight into the deep psychology of Republican Party leaders, other than the overly simplistic but still predictive political science chestnut of treating them as single-minded seekers of reelection.
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Clinton, for example, has taken pains to emphasize her endorsement by Planned Parenthood and suggested that Sanders's single-minded focus on economic inequality reflects a lack of commitment to the pro-choice cause.
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We said, at the time we were like, the one key to our success as a company is going to be single-minded focus and we're gonna focus completely on building the podcast company.
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AGI will be able to complete discrete tasks, such as recognising photos or translating languages, which are the single-minded focus of the multitude of artificial intelligences (AIs) that inhabit our phones and computers.
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The most famously Tracy Flick-ish woman in America is Hillary, who like Melania has shown a single-minded discipline and superhuman levels of delayed gratification—every action in service of an ultimate ambition.
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While some coaches run their programs with single-minded intensity, Calhoun says he looks forward to engaging the communities in Hartford and West Hartford to generate awareness of and enthusiasm for his new school.
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Abella did not elaborate on how the approach might be recalibrated and said the war on drugs had "always adhered to police action carried out with caution and regularity, but with single minded determination".
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The dispute, similar to one they had in the first half of the season on how to handle Rick, comes back to Negan's worldview versus that of a more single-minded thug like Simon.
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It eventually made him a conspicuous target as America headed into World War II and the single-minded promotion of a nativist art was a little too close to the aesthetic dictates of Fascism.
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Now 10 years after teetering on the brink of financial catastrophe, Sir Edward, a retired financier, still complains of empty rhetoric and worries about the inevitable casualties of a single-minded focus on profits.
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A single-minded focus on economic growth, followed by painful economic stagnation over the past generation, had frayed families and communities, leaving them trapped in a demographic crucible of increasing age and declining births.
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Instead, the administration's single-minded focus has been to help Syrian fighters oust the Islamic State from the northern city of Raqqa, which the extremists have declared the capital of their self-styled caliphate.
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Faced with Putin's single-minded fixation on the apparently existential need to preserve power, the United States -- and the rest of the world -- will have to learn to deal with such an autocratic imperative.
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Now he fulfilled the industry's long-standing vision of the single-minded male hero-auteur, and answered the growing demand that black artists be empowered to tell the often neglected stories of their people.
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The single-minded focus that your toddler brings to balancing a square stick on a round log can be applied to scrolling through thousands of lines of code, looking for a single syntax error.
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Paying attention to them — and to the differences between them and Odysseus — might help us draw more from the poem about contemporary politics and power relationships than a single-minded focus on the hero.
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There is Oren Cass of the Manhattan Institute, whose book "The Once and Future Worker" criticizes the single-minded focus on expanding the economic pie regardless of other considerations as "economic piety" (get it?).
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But no matter how macro the social commentary, they always come down to a handful of people massively outnumbered by a seething horde of single-minded monsters, and (usually) trying to help each other survive.
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What has come to be known as the "foreign policy elite" in America today — composed of those single-minded "experts" from both parties — has thus far been unwilling, or unable, to follow the rational path.
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West Ham's defence was so abject, so disorganised, that they managed to concede four times to a side which has been set up by a man whose life is a single-minded crusade against goals.
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An analysis of more than 900 emails from Miller to editors at Breitbart News, the report shows Miller's single-minded focus on nonwhite immigration and his immersion in an online ecosystem of virulent, unapologetic racism.
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Now, five years after unveiling that first tablet, Amazon is coming out with a new model of the device that takes the company's single-minded obsession with offering the lowest practical price to new extremes.
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She was hilariously single-minded: Dispatched in 1938 as her dying anti-interventionist husband's surrogate, Smith simply began giving speeches in opposition to him, advocating increased military spending in the lead-up to the war.
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Our single-minded goal as a nation must be to have the strongest, healthiest, and most fit children prepared to lead our nation into the future, realizing our national security is safe in their hands.
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Fears over the fast-spreading Wuhan coronavirus broke into the Senate's single-minded focus on impeachment Friday morning as top public health officials warned lawmakers that more cases are likely to hit the United States.
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As a woman songwriter who also got into the music world at a young age, I know the kind of determination, struggle and single-minded perseverance it has taken for her to reach such heights.
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Russia and China "are single-minded in their identification of democracy as a threat to their oppressive regimes, and they work relentlessly, with increasing sophistication," to step up repression at home and undermine democracy abroad.
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Nancy Lewis, whose single-minded belief that Americans would find a quirky British comedy troupe amusing was instrumental in getting that troupe's breakthrough show, "Monty Python's Flying Circus," broadcast on American television, died on Dec.
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Johnson couched his decision as a bid for unity, claiming that his single-minded pursuit of peace in Vietnam led him to put aside the personal political self-interest required in seeking another presidential term.
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Other measures (too lengthy to cite here) by all U.S. administrations failed to curb the DPRK's single-minded determination to possess nuclear armaments and intercontinental-range missiles capable of striking all of the United States.
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That would be in keeping with the single-minded style of central bank Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, people who know him well or have worked with him say, but could risk entrenching divisions between BOJ policymakers.
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In his single-minded focus on economic gain, sometimes poorly defined, critics say Mr. Trump risks undermining an international order built by the United States to bolster American security and values as well as prosperity.
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When one stage of history begins to run down, Hegel says, a "World-historical individual" often arises, a willful, single-minded strong man who disrupts the status quo and embodies everyone's profoundest hopes and fears.
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The 27 media coverage of the Waco massacre — which depicted Koresh as a single-minded genius exerting power over his fellow Branch Davidians via mind control — has by now become the defining story of the siege.
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A single-minded focus on initiatives to boost engagement and revenue, at the expense of focusing on systemic rot within the platform, is precisely what landed Facebook in its state of perma-crisis to begin with.
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Earth observation is a booming industry, expected to reach $3.5 billion globally by 2024, so Planet's single-minded effort to get that daily Earth selfie makes sense—those pictures will be worth a lot of moolah.
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Killing Escobar has done nothing to affect the supply and demand of the cocaine business; if anything, the single-minded obsession with Escobar has allowed his chief rivals to flourish as they never would have otherwise.
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All these actions, potentially fatal to Tesla over the long term, are by-products of a single-minded, irresponsible CEO who views the law and product quality as a trifling interference on the road to profitability.
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But the discussion in China has reflected an ambivalent public that takes great pride in international sporting achievement, yet is no longer sure that medals are worth so much single-minded sacrifice from athletes and taxpayers.
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For most conservative evangelical voters, pragmatism has trumped theological purity, and the comprehensive vision of national moral renewal that once animated the Christian right has given way to a single-minded focus on the Supreme Court.
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But it was also a glimpse of what lay ahead, the opening salvo in one artist's single-minded campaign to free prehistoric animals from polite society and esoteric texts and unleash them on the public imagination.
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The single-minded adoption of such profane identities may even be more theological than Muslim conversions to Christianity and other faiths, suggesting that they have now replaced churches and temples in representing religious forms of belief.
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Thanks to the efforts of a single-minded prosecutor, Romania's anti-corruption efforts have gained significant headway in the past few years, a welcome change in one of the most corrupt countries of the European Union.
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Boldly working against Canadiana, Mr. Funk has made a seeming hockey movie that pivots into a skewering of the masculinity at the core of the country's favorite pastime — and any institution that breeds single-minded competition.
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If Trump ever steps down as president it's hard not to think that he'd be salivating to have his own show—given his single-minded obsession with comparing himself to the 44th president of the United States.
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The company's Snapdragon 820 is already one of the most popular smartphone SoC's on the market, but Qualcomm believes that mobile VR's full potential isn't being reached on the 820 because the headsets aren't single-minded enough.
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"The way that Trump has approached this, his single-minded approach to drug policy ... is building a wall," Michael Collins, the director of National Affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit aimed reducing drug harms, said.
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Andrew Donohue, a senior editor at the Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit organization that partners with other media on reporting projects, said the single-minded, muckraking focus of some journalism has made the public more cynical.
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A big part of what has made Amazon's story as a company so captivating to investors is the single-minded focus of Jeffrey P. Bezos, the company's founder and chief executive, on making big long-term investments.
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Ms. Jahren writes about her single-minded dedication to her work — her determination to "make my life into something" — and then suddenly falling in love, at 32, with another scientist named Clint Conrad, whom she will marry.
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It throws us right into the disastrous aftermath, hundreds of bodies later, as human guests scramble to escape the hosts who have turned on them with the single-minded focus of eliminating them from their own game.
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He did it all with the single-minded goal of breaking through to the people of North Sentinel Island, a remote outpost of hunters and gatherers in the Andaman Sea who had shown tremendous hostility to outsiders.
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In 1915, after the first effort to amend the state constitution was soundly defeated, the Columbia historian Charles A. Beard urged the women's rights advocates to shift their tactics from moral persuasion to single-minded political organizing.
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In the end, a repentant Victor will blame the ruin of Greece and Rome, as well as the destruction of the empires of Mexico and Peru, on the single-minded obsession of unencumbered men such as himself.
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Even Mr. Gantz's single-minded focus on Mr. Netanyahu's trial carried some risk, Mr. Wolfsfeld said: It meant that he was constantly repeating himself about something on which most voters had long since made up their minds.
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Yet even if those targets are reached, the social impediments in China are formidable: the legacy of the one-child policy, the single-minded focus on education, the lack of a soccer or even a sports culture.
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"But I can assure you that our primary and single-minded focus is always what is in the best interests of Canadians and in particular what is in the best interests of Canadians being held," he said.
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And yet as that philosophy seeps into Silicon Valley workplaces and popular culture, the single-minded focus on outcomes runs headlong into an uncomfortable reality: For many people, exposure to fasting may do more damage than good.
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But to those who were already skeptical of Michigan's emergency manager law, the Flint crisis seems like an encapsulation of everything that can go wrong when a single person with a single-minded focus controls a city.
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One does not have to agree with Kierkegaard's single-minded, hostile rejection of objective thought and objectivity to still consider what he has to say about the cultivation of subjectivity, because that is where his major insights lie.
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That's because while the first Razer phone put a neat spin on what people could get from a handset, it often felt like a single-minded device rather than something you'd want to carry around all the time.
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In short, global markets and news reports miss the real story with their single-minded focus on whether or not President Trump and President Xi can reduce tensions and close a trade deal over the next 90 days.
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It was that single minded focus which, despite being in excruciating pain, allowed the American to take a leap of faith at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and ended with her landing a vault on an already damaged ankle.
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In the 22018 Halloween, Laurie is cold, single-minded, and driven almost entirely by her certainty that Michael Myers, the man who murdered her friends and tried to kill her, will eventually come back to finish the job.
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But BoJack has taken the myopic focus of the entertainment industry and the single-minded people within it — ground well trodden by the likes of 30 Rock and Curb Your Enthusiasm — to a whole new level of insight.
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Such single-minded focus might be a luxury, but it can also be a lesson to the rest of us to find our own goals and go after them, with the help of your teammates cheering you on.
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The persistence with which Pnini has pursued variations, including films of trains and train tracks, on one of the foundational scenes in cinematic history recalls the prolonged phases of single-minded aesthetic inquiry in Robert Irwin's artistic career.
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The album, which also contains Mr. Johnston's sixth and eighth quartets and a short piece for voice and strings called "Quietness," marks the completion of one of the most ambitious and single-minded recording projects in American music.
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Barr has become known for defending Trump with single-minded zeal since joining the administration earlier this year, prompting legal experts to liken him to a defense attorney for Trump rather than the nation's top law enforcement official.
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Her caring devotion, compassion and single-minded focus on working tirelessly toward promoting research on Alzheimer's so that others don't have to go through what her husband went through are exemplary in the annals of womanhood and humanity!
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Federal health officials have repeatedly pointed out that his timetable is off — that it will take at least a year — but his single-minded focus on warp-speed production of a new vaccine represents a striking philosophical shift.
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Combining the lack of influence over Trump with his single-minded, personal pursuit of State Department "reform" — which really amounted to gutting the department and forcing out longtime employees — you have a truly disastrous tenure in Foggy Bottom.
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I got her the one she's been wearing soon after she was presented to my 90-year-old mother, who seized on her with a single-minded adoration neither my brothers nor I recall her showering on us.
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Robert Silvers, the editor synonymous with The New York Review of Books, ran the left-leaning intellectual magazine with single-minded fervor from the time he co-founded it in 1963 until he died at 87 in March.
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But to those of us representing the poor and marginalized in New York City, Mr. Giuliani is simply revealing what he has always been: a bully, a liar and a single-minded seeker of fame, fortune and power.
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More so, he wants the production of those songs to contribute to his single-minded quest for the biggest rap or R&B single, an approach which can lead to bloat but has recently paid dividends for Khaled.
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Throughout the past few years, we have seen examples of this in numerous nations, with a series of tough-talking, single-minded politicians making inroads across rapidly growing but dysfunctional democracies such as Indonesia, India, Peru, and the Philippines.
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But all found themselves slapped rudely with an immovable and irreconcilable Trump wielding the single-minded fixation of continuing to undo anything negotiated by his predecessor, Barack Obama, with whom all three European politicians had maintained quite cordial relations.
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Like thousands of children around the world, the young Ledecka was advised at an early age to concentrate on one sport but one thing the two Esters have in common is a single-minded determination to follow their heart.
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This is a man resigned to his rage, a put-upon, artless, gray-flannelized man whose single-minded fixation on domestic income inequality and financial reform is every bit as enervating and drudgey as it is practical and admirable.
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In his new book Turtles All the Way Down, out this Tuesday, Green turns his single-minded intensity to the question of what it is like to be a teenager struggling with an anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Mr. Irvin's Macbeth underwent a reversed process: from a conflicted, eminently human character at the start of the opera, one whose voice contained subtle inflections of doubt and hope, to a steely, single-minded tyrant hellbent on self-annihilation.
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He took the sex literally, too, with peekaboo dresses and tops revealing all underneath, and prints by the photorealist painter John Kacere — featuring a very single-minded slice of ladies' anatomy, as if on advertisement — to underscore the point.
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Fans of the emblematic submarine adventure "Das Boot," an international hit in 1981 and a favorite of those who like their war movies claustrophobic and single-minded, may be alarmed by descriptions of the new "Das Boot" television series.
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To make it work, prelapsarian Undine must be as awful and single-minded in her pursuit of success as possible; Ms. Nottage has said that she got a bead on the character after reading a profile of Condoleezza Rice.
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Dr. Fajgenbaum's single-minded mission to take on his own disease is also typical of the rare-disease world, said Max Bronstein, the chief advocacy and science policy officer at the EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases in Novato, Calif.
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I imagine there are people out there who are put off by artists like Lil Wayne, who lack the single-minded and high-minded focus of their peers when it comes to discussing matters of political importance or whatever.
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Michael Flynn, the choice for national security advisor, shares Trump's thin skin and inventiveness with facts, as well as a single-minded focus on Islamic extremism that will quickly produce policy errors as the administration confronts complex challenges and policy tradeoffs.
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But with political tensions at an all-time high and the YA category seemingly shrinking, many authors say that the single-minded focus on "authenticity" as a standard for publication has begun to act as a hindrance, not a help.
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"The news today is disturbing to us but will in no way impede our single-minded dedication to our mission as the guardian of the legacy of our founder Stan Lee," the company said in a statement emailed to CNN Business.
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Sanders's single-minded focus on the need to crush the political power of the hyper-wealthy makes it hard for him to give credence to the idea that anything else in political life is worth taking seriously on its own terms.
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The surreal nature of the character's ridiculous disguises — which only the Baudelaire children (and by extension, the audience) seem to be able to penetrate — and Olaf's single-minded drive to possess their fortune give Harris an outlet for his own humor.
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Mr Anaya's biggest difficulty may be that in his single-minded pursuit of the candidacy he has alienated important figures in his own party, starting with Margarita Zavala, the wife of a former president, who is running as an independent.
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So single-minded was Moscow in the pursuit of the Aleppo campaign that it defied U.S. calls for an easing of the stranglehold on the city, despite the risk of jeopardizing a deal with Washington to cooperate in strikes against militants.
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The swing suggests a single-minded hacker, but his true gift may be for pitch recognition; he lets sliders a couple inches off the plate pass by, works his way ahead in counts, and then unloads on the eventual fastball.
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It's the sports teams that dominate massive amounts of money and attention in high schools across the US. Europeans take part in PE, but their schools don't have the single-minded focus on athletic achievement that is common in America.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - After Emmanuel Macron's victory in France's presidential election, Germany must decide whether it wants to continue its single-minded focus on budget rigour or work with him to ensure the future of the European project, a German diplomat said.
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A separate report charges that Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, is a greater threat to the United States in the long term than is ISIS, making the United States' current single-minded focus on the latter group misguided.
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Although Cruz, a former lawyer, is a more skilled debater, he more than met his match in the single-minded Sanders, who was able to parlay nearly all of Cruz's attacks by arguing for the necessity of a single-payer system.
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Detroit hasn't allowed itself much self-reflection in recent decades, and Ilitch's single-minded focus on a title—both admirable and rare in sports ownership—meant his team has avoided rebuilds of the type that have recently been en vogue.
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They're identifying a few different metrics for success to avoid the single-minded aim of increasing time spent on the platform, which can lead to things like "filter bubbles," where people only see content that conforms or supports their own viewpoints.
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"It confirms that the Framers' single-minded focus in crafting the constitutional guarantee 'to keep and bear arms' was on military uses of firearms, which they viewed in the context of service in state militias," he wrote in his Heller dissent.
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Touring in tandem, aligned with but not always tethered to Mr. Bieber's performances, is his Purpose merchandise, a boutique's worth of clothes and accessories edging ever further from mere memorabilia and closer to a fully fledged, if single-minded, fashion collection.
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America turned out en masse, in an unprecedented and spontaneous show of democratic strength, a tour de force, and the living embodiment of Aaron Copeland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," equal measures restraint and emotion, conviction and single-minded motion.
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In the end, neither carrots nor sticks have diverted North Korea so far from its single-minded pursuit of a nuclear deterrent, and a rift among the United States, South Korea and China would only encourage the North to barrel ahead.
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The most telling critique of the claims of social conservatives is that their single-minded focus on the destructive forces of liberalism offers a facile (and erroneous) answer to developments that do not fit simple categories of good and evil.
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That simple identity in national accounts is reflecting Washington's unforgivable negligence of balanced growth, and Beijing's single-minded pursuit of rapid economic development, with the help of American investments, free technology transfers and open U.S. markets for China's goods and services.
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This single-minded enterprise is devoted to cheong fun, broad floppy rice noodles, translucent and almost gooey, rolled around nubs of pork, beef or shrimp (plump or dried into briny knots), scallions and cilantro, crunchy bean sprouts and glimmers of corn.
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And his single-minded focus on the border wall -- which has almost never attracted support from more than 45% of the country in any major poll during his presidency -- illuminates how limited is his commitment to even pursuing such unity.
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On another part of the spectrum are producers who are subversive but not single-minded, who reject being called natural winemakers, either because they dislike the term's connotations or they do not live up to their personal definition of the genre.
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Pope Francis has released a new papal document in which he criticizes everything from the toxicity of social media to Catholics' single-minded focus on abortion, and encourages Catholics to better value the contributions of women to the spiritual life of the church.
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When Victor Frankenstein meets her at a ball, he cannot help but be taken with her artless intellectualism and single-minded drive; Mary, in turn, cannot help but thrill at receiving attention from someone outside of her family, and positive attention at that.
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But as much as the media and other observers have focused their attention on whether or not the president obstructed justice, it would be shortsighted and legally unproductive for any prosecutor to be that single-minded if this were any other case.
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Washington (CNN)Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, is a greater threat to the United States in the long term than is ISIS, making the United States' current single-minded focus on the latter group misguided, a new report is charging.
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Is the single-minded plan that Parker describes still the operational principal of Facebook — hack people's psychology to hook them — or is there, as Zuckerberg says, a greater purpose, to bring people not just to Facebook, but closer to each other, as well?
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The single-minded purpose of their mission will allow Escobar's rivals in the business to take over without the slightest hiccup in cocaine traffic between Colombia and distribution networks in Miami and New York — and perhaps no abatement of the violence, either.
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Admittedly, none of these songs are "melodic" in the traditional sense, but they all boast some mixture of reasonable pacing, relatively simple structuring, and bountiful clean vocals or choruses that prove that Anaal Nathrakh is capable of more than just single-minded brutality.
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In any case, when Mr. Wachner, early in his investigations, learned of the availability of the Noack organ in Chestnut Hill, an instrument he knew and loved from his student days at Boston University, he set off on a single-minded pursuit.
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And it is this existential question of "to be, or not to be" — that single-minded drive to avert the fate that befell Romanian strongman Nicolae Ceausescu and Libya's Moammar Gaddafi — that propels the Kim dynasty's decades-old stratagem of nuclear duplicity.
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James M. McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom," since its publication in 1988 the standard history of the Civil War, compared Lee's single-minded focus on the war in Virginia unfavorably with Grant's strategic grasp of the interconnections between the eastern and western theaters.
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Ms. DeVos has spent tens of millions and many years in a single-minded effort to force her home state, Michigan, to replace public schools with privately run charters and to use vouchers to move talented students out of failing public schools.
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What some may see as Mr. Kushner's greatest liabilities as an adviser — his lack of political experience, policy expertise or familiarity with the ways of Washington — the president-elect views as his greatest strength: a single-minded devotion without a competing agenda.
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DENMARK, S.C. — Hillary Clinton forcefully attacked Senator Bernie Sanders before a heavily black audience Friday, highlighting his criticism of President Obama, the Affordable Care Act and for what she suggested was a single-minded focus on economic fairness at the expense of racial justice.
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I may not agree with him on everything these days—his single-minded devotion to a consumption tax strikes me as regressive—but his anti-tax, anti-war, anti–drug war, pro–criminal justice reform, anti-discrimination views are a potentially potent cocktail of policies.
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That said, a New Zealand-based app developer duo reckons a stronger focus on design can inject new energy to shake up what it dubs the "boring" dictionary app space — even if only for rather less single-minded language learners than I. And the result?
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It's probably smart that Thompson isn't tasked with imitating Smith — where J starts out as a reckless, dedicated cop, Thompson's Agent M is a single-minded nerd who becomes MIB's first non-recruited employee by devoting much of her young life to tracking them down.
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The student, Otto F. Warmbier of the University of Virginia, was being held for an unspecified "hostile act" against North Korea with the goal of "bringing down the foundation of its single-minded unity," North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency said on Friday.
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While the skills and discipline required to become a high-performance athlete translate nicely into the show business environment, the single-minded focus needed to peak for one moment every four years is very different from the mindset needed for a 10-show working week.
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But in season two, the show is more willing to grapple with the fact that, in their single-minded pursuit of Escobar, law enforcement officials did some terrible things — while inadvertently clearing space for the Cali cartel (Escobar's rivals) to expand its own operation.
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The phrase has now come to possess three distinct senses: a search for actual witches; what the OED calls a "single-minded and uncompromising campaign against a group of people with unacceptable views or behavior"; and a campaign that viciously targets a single individual.
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The senator has made it almost a single-minded pursuit to thwart any overhaul of the nation's immigration laws that he deems "amnesty," and he served as a one-man wrecking crew in 2006, 2007 and 2013 when Congress pursued changes to immigration laws.
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Without spoiling the ending — or the setup for a potential second season — Dory's single-minded fixation on Chantal's disappearance blows up in her face in spectacular fashion, making her confront all the vicarious living she did while Nancy Drewing her way around New York.
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As Laurie, Curtis has battled the unkillable, silent but single-minded Michael Myers across five of the 11 films in John Carpenter's Halloween franchise — including the newest entry, a sort-of sequel, sort-of remake directed by David Gordon Green that's out this weekend.
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She even deals sympathetically with the lead detective, whom the case had rendered "obsessed, single-minded, snarly, socially incapacitated and a total loser as both husband and father," according to a speech he gave in 2014 at a convention of the Texas Citizens Police Academy.
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And while he would always insist that the symbol he affixed next to his signature was a crucifix, not a dagger, he redeemed his nickname by his single-minded campaign to recast Irish Catholics as less un-American than they were perceived as being.
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While it is easy to dismiss James as a genetic freak — "And he is," said Korver, who played with James in Cleveland — few players are more regimented: all the daily stretching and weight lifting and core work, along with the single-minded focus on diet.
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From each of his sets there are tales of his single-minded insistence on certain details: on finding the perfect church on a hill; the perfect petroleum refineries; the perfect exterior for Neberdine Pharmaceutical Biotech, the drug company where the majority of "Maniac" takes place.
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This may suggest to some that it is hard to generalize about Harvard's students, though McDonald isn't stopped: He sees Gerald as one of a handful of "outliers," the exception that proves the rule that most graduates are morally detached, single-minded fortune seekers.
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No doubt the ending of this covenant of reconciliation, if that is what we are seeing, will bring back into world history those single-minded utopian forces that never accepted the finiteness of man's worldly condition nor the limits and complexity of human justice.
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Co-written with The Leftovers veteran Lila Byock, the episode wouldn't have felt out of place on that earlier series, with its relentless, single-minded focus on the character of Laurie and what she goes through as she begins investigating the weirdness in Tulsa.
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"Any distraction from the single-minded focus to draw a plan for introducing electric vehicles is going to make this a long-lasting exercise that might not attract the attention of the right kind of investors," cautions Guenter Butschek, managing director at Tata Motors.
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A single-minded drive to force Congress to finance his signature campaign promise has left Mr. Trump right back where he started, this time seeking a way to climb over the political barrier in his way after trying to charge through it did not work.
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That rush jump-started the fortunes of the Trump family and set in motion a story reminiscent of The Godfather or a great American novel: Immigrant grit and hustle begets a thriving family business run by a succession of ruthless, cunning, single-minded men.
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The Clinton America has heard about all week at the Democratic National Convention is single-minded in the pursuit of her goals — and doesn't appear to be as invested in whether the work gets done legislatively, through bipartisan negotiation, or through the executive branch.
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As noted, there has been a whole lot of mileage since then, as Terminators have changed looks, genders and capabilities, but the basic programming -- a near-unstoppable killer that won't deviate from its single-minded purpose until the job is done -- never goes out of style.
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That's the peril of the rabbit hole, which echoes both a major storyline from the show — the Man in Black's single-minded pursuit of a puzzle that turned out not to be for him — and the way the passionate fan community traded theories during the first season.
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By including works done in various mediums — particularly the collages, toys, books in which he collected images from disparate sources, making an archive, and reconfigurable constructions – the exhibition underscores that being single-minded doesn't necessarily mean following one path and paring away your options, like Mondrian.
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Frankenstein and the Creature are both single-minded in the pursuit of their own goals — to prevent the creation of more Creatures and to find love, respectively — but Mary's dogged sense of purpose seems to vanish, and she ultimately becomes an accessory to their respective stories.
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I don't think it was a coincidence that my first lucid dreams in Peru came at another time when I was able to maintain a single-minded focus on my desire to become lucid, and when I had made dream talk a regular part of my day.
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In 2015, Livingston, who's got a baby face and a quiet, single-minded presence about him, landed one of the most coveted positions in the fine-dining world: head pastry chef at Noma, the Michelin-starred Denmark eatery considered to be one of the world's elite restaurants.
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He often described a life in food service to be ascetic and maniacal—a true single-minded dedication to the culinary arts that supersedes any concerns over low pay, long hours, mental and physical health, and I think that's where his roguish vigor was most apparent.
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The story she tells is harrowing — years of confinement and rape, human trafficking, life in the fortified compound of a Mexican drug lord, then a terrifying escape and a single-minded trek home — but is it the truth, a wholesale fabrication or some hybrid of both?
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Add to that Beijing's single-minded determination to militarize the South China Sea and push its defensive perimeter to the approaches of both the Pacific and Indian oceans and you have all the elements for a regional arms race and potentially even the spread of nuclear weapons.
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After the Museum of Ice Cream launched—and cashed in all of those high-dollar admission fees—a number of single-minded copycat pop-ups followed: The Museum of Pizza, the avocado-stanning Cado, and the by-many-accounts-unenjoyable Boba Room in New York City.
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Forcing people into packed and unsanitary detention centers "increases the risk of infection, meaning ICE is now actively endangering public health in its single-minded mission to arrest undocumented immigrants," reads an open letter that Mijente is sending to companies in light of the Covid-22016 crisis.
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The more mundane obstacle for the would-be fabulist of the peloton is that sportspeople are such unpromising material: The very things that make a professional athlete successful — single-minded dedication, self-belief verging on narcissism, a requisite lack of imagination — don't necessarily make for interesting characters.
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Her hard body reflects the calcified hardness within: Now, she's just as ruthless and single-minded as her onetime tormentor, obsessed with her mission of protecting John at all costs — even if that means she doesn't have time to offer him care and affection in the process.
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But Mr. Trump is unusually single-minded in his focus on preparing for great power conflict, which the world has averted since World War II. This echoes the beliefs of Stephen K. Bannon, a senior adviser whose nationalist ideology traditionally sees great power conflict as inevitable.
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He's always been something of a nervous mess, but the 2017 version has a traumatic backstory, at least a few mental illness diagnoses, and a single-minded mission to track down the all-powerful supervillain who killed his father, fittingly named "the Terror" (a maniacal Jackie Earle Haley).
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The adult Faraday's longing for the house has sharpened into a calculated, single-minded focus: At the first opportunity, he manipulates his way into an ongoing relationship with the Ayreses and begins to chronicle the family's steadily escalating chaos — a chaos that seems to have begun with his arrival.
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In those days, every year of the revolution was named for a cause: Year of Solidarity (1966), Year of the Heroic Guerrilla (1968), the Year of the 10 Million (1970), with its single-minded effort to reach an unrealistic sugar cane harvest goal that nearly bankrupted the country.
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A set of old high school lockers that play an important puzzle-solving role evoke Josie's internal angst and struggles with self-confidence, while a hidden space discovered towards the end reveals the single-minded obsession that overtook her in the wake of a particularly tragic personal loss.
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His story involves elites (and he includes President George W. Bush in this group) who naively toppled autocrats—"foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn't be involved with," as he puts it—when they should have been hunting down terrorists with pitiless, single-minded violence.
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Adebayo describes Yejide's determination to get pregnant with both passion and desperation — after all, when her husband moves a second wife into their home, Yejide realizes pregnancy will be the only way to stay in his favor — and this single-minded goal blossoms into hope, love, and grief.
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But even if Hogan went away, Thiel would not ... investing in Gawker right now is a very unattractive proposition, since any investor knows that they will be fighting a years-long battle with a single-minded billionaire who doesn't care about how much money he spends on the fight.
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It does this all basically from recognizing the shapes on the screen or, in some cases, from accessing the game geometry and system memory directly — it doesn't care about the Princess, and it may develop strange behaviors that result from its single-minded pursuit of incrementing its score integer.
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The reality is more restrained, especially since daymeeuhn reports (in a pretty spoiler-heavy series of posts) that he made his sprint to the center after completing many of the other tasks in the game, implying that Murray's insistence on a single-minded travel strategy doesn't necessarily hold up.
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Much of its material will be familiar to readers — thanks to newspaper articles and Michael D'Antonio's 2015 biography ("Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success") — but "Trump Revealed" deftly charts his single-minded building of his gaudy brand and his often masterful manipulation of the media.
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The qualities that often define political dissidents — a single-minded focus on justice, isolation from larger society and a slightly delusional sense of their own importance — can make them unable to compromise, work with others or relate to the concerns of the ordinary people they claim to speak for.
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Given their single-minded focus on preventing school shootings, the more prominent Parkland students most often find themselves tangling with conservative politicians and commentators who support broad gun ownership rights, including Senator Marco Rubio, Ms. Ingraham, the N.R.A. spokeswoman Dana Loesch and the Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren.
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Back in his UFC and WSOF heyday, Palhares was a true individual: in a field of American wrestle-boxers, he was a Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt who tried to wrap up his opponents' legs with the single-minded purpose you rarely saw outside of a sambo match.
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The film mostly involves Ray pursuing single-minded vengeance, first against the man (Toby Kebbell) who he believes killed him and tortured his wife (Talulah Riley) in the film's opening scene, and then against — well, to tell you that would be to ruin the film's only plot twist.
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His first marriage dissolved, apparently because his wife didn't appreciate his single-minded focus on the mountain, and in 1950 he married Ruth Ross, a volunteer at the site who was eighteen years his junior, on Thanksgiving Day—supposedly so that the wedding wouldn't require a day off work.
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Still it gave me an idea: If you suspect foul play in your business or personal life, hire a woman whose partner is doing her dirt to get to the bottom of it because no one will bring to it the intensity and single-minded focus she will.
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Two themes that permeate the reports are a disinterest in informed and transparent decision-making and the replacement of policies that attempt to balance competing needs with a single-minded focus on putting public resources to work for extractive industries, including several of the world's most profitable corporations.
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It is a time that is fucking perfect for Bill Belichick, a man who is, by pretty much every measurement, a tactical and spatial thinking genius, a manager of men and a single-minded obsessive who has dedicated his entire adult life to wringing victories out of football teams.
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I came away from the movie thinking it was maybe about the sanctity of art, or how a single-minded focus on creating it can get in the way of human connections, or maybe just, like, how Hollywood is a hard place to achieve a dream, or something?
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Abraham Lincoln brought about Emancipation not only by bringing his single-minded vision of an America without the abomination of slavery, but by leading an incredibly difficult and complex struggle, both military and political--always concentrating on what was doable at the moment while keeping his eyes on the ultimate prize.
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But the man Dr. Everett knew — everyone seemed to refer to him as "Bishop," whereas my real-world friends and family simply call me Bryan — had also been too single-minded for his own good, experimenting on himself in the early days of OpenMind when he couldn't get proper regulatory approval.
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My passion for horses has never been germane to my work as a Times journalist, but I tacked on those three words because any story about me that omits that fact isn't the whole story: Horses have been a single-minded addiction of mine since I was 2 years old.
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But the fact that Puzder is in the Cabinet at all (and in charge of a department that could have been mustered in service of an immigration crackdown) is an indication that Trump's administration is not going to be as single-minded on his signature issue as his supporters hoped and opponents feared.
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The more you play of these games, the more you realized that RTS skirmish AI is usually some version of that single-minded Red Alert AI: It knows a couple tricks, it has a couple things it will prioritize at all costs, but it doesn't really have any way to interpret context.
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Jesse's dismay that the voice of God has gone silent; the arrival of forces hunting the creature that's taken root inside the preacher; and Jesse's single-minded drive to manipulate more people into hearing his words all point to an open-armed embrace of what really made Preacher the classic it's become.
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ICE's single-minded dedication to new music stands out while many established orchestras are unsure how to best present new work: Just last week a New York Philharmonic contemporary music series was saved from being scrapped only after an extraordinary last-minute donation by a small group that included several prominent conductors.
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Mostly they are crude imitations of regular, if single-minded, people that, by virtue of existing and posting — a lot — are able to manipulate platforms' shared spaces: They increase visible follower counts and sharing metrics; they create Twitter trends and hijack or pollute hashtags into uselessness; they flood searches around breaking news.
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Twitter is making inroads in the battle to prevent the Islamic State militant group and its supporters from using the platform as a mouthpiece, but its single-minded focus on the jihadi group is allowing competing radical Islamists to surpass ISIS and maintain a strong online presence, according to a new report.
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SUSE buys HPE's OpenStack and Cloud Foundry assets "Our genuinely open, open source solutions, flexible business practices, lack of enforced vendor lock-in and exceptional service are more critical to customer and partner organizations, and our independence coincides with our single-minded focus on delivering what is best for them," said Brauckmann in today's announcement.
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But Washington, along with other major Western governments, has allowed the Ethiopian government to flout the ruling: Since at least the mid-1990s, U.S. policy toward the region has been driven by an almost single-minded preoccupation with counterterrorism, and Washington considers Ethiopia to be its main security partner in the Horn of Africa.
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The single most important thing that business leaders can do to help restore the public's faith in capitalism is to move away from a single-minded focus on shareholder returns and "wealth creation" to focus on "value creation," building businesses that add value to and improve the lives of all stakeholders: shareholders, employees and customers.
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In this way, Danny McBride and Jody Hill's timing with Vice Principals couldn't have been any better: You can find Gamby's resentment of otherness, intense fear of change, single-minded devotion to law and order, and pointless brow-beating in Donald Trump and the type of white guys who will vote for him come November.
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I stopped riding as a preteen, but by the time I was 38, I was as overworked and overburdened as any modern professional, and the thought of cellphone-free barns and the single-minded focus of being on horseback made me eager to return to the sport that used to bring me so much joy.
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As the Trump administration continues to roll back regulations on everything from worker safety to environmental destruction, a new book from Deborah Blum—The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century—takes us back to a time when the very idea of government-enforced regulations was laughable.
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Rickman was so complete a villain when he had to be—he gave the impression of being single-minded and opaque at the same time; we knew who he held in contempt, but never quite why—it's tempting to think of him as a classic character actor, someone who spent a career perfecting one particular kind of role.
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Pence's political career is marked by a disturbing, single-minded devotion to eroding women's bodily autonomy—he introduced the first-ever bill to defund Planned Parenthood, he cosponsored legislation that would demand full constitutional rights for every fertilized human egg, and he recently signed into law a bill that would require abortion providers to arrange funerals for fetuses.
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If both opponents and supporters have been telling the truth, it ought to be clear that moving forward, the U.S. and its allies need to pivot from the kid-glove requirements of diplomacy to a single-minded effort to prevent Iran from turning this moment into an opportunity to wreak more havoc in the Middle East.
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Given all those things — plus the way the producers talked about sexual misconduct on Bachelor in Paradise, which was also a disappointing way to approach the issue — it was satisfying to see Hannah take down this single-minded guy, who represents a lot of things that are wrong with the show and its portrayal of female sexual independence.
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Similarly After Hours, with its single-minded dedication to making hedonism seem as both dramatic and fun as humanly possible, became one of my few respites during an otherwise miserable spring when I was living in a cramped, windowless room in Brooklyn, floundering at an internship and questioning exactly what the fuck I was doing with my life.
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These topics are set against the backdrop of the stunning magnitude of the many problems we face: the economies of scale that emphasize quantity over quality, a single-minded focus on the bottom line, the use of technology to obscure and de-humanize (rather than to connect and share) and an ignorance-is-bliss approach to our environmental impact.
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A three-and-a-half-hour testament to twerking and oral intercourse, "Intermezzo" plays like the world's artiest "Girls Gone Wild" video, and as his actresses doff their clothes to cavort on a beach and in a nightclub, Kechiche's single-minded focus on their fannies proves so obsessive that even Sir Mix-A-Lot might blanch.
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Because of how depleted the Cavs were by the time the Finals began, and because the Warriors were still in the first supernova flare, last season's NBA Finals felt like a watershed—for all the heroics of LeBron's single-minded and effectively single-handed labors, the series felt explicitly like the end of one era and the beginning of another.
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As I crane my neck for the facilities, I see a half dozen other guys, sprung-shot from their motor coaches, faces locked in that same grim, single-minded focus that makes the fact that you're about to enter the site of one of the worst crimes against humanity ever secondary to hoping you don't wet yourself before you get in.
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From weakening a rule preventing any one broadcaster from reaching more than 39 percent of the nation, to the dismantling of a 77-year-old rule that required broadcasters keep a local studio in the towns they service (in a long-standing bid to encourage community participation), Ajit Pai's FCC has been unapologetically single-minded in its quest to help Sinclair grow larger.
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It takes generations to hammer ethical considerations out of a person's mind and to replace them entirely with the ruthless logic of winning and losing; to take the normal human yearning to be good and replace it with a single-minded desire for material conquest; to take the normal human instinct for kindness and replace it with a law-of-the-jungle mentality.
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Natalie Foster, a co-chair and co-founder of the Economic Security Project—"a network that supports the exploration and experimentation of a guaranteed income"—says that capitalism's single-minded emphasis on profit and profitability has so warped our ideas about purpose and usefulness in work, that some of the most valuable roles in our social contract sometimes go unpaid and undervalued.
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Though not everyone is interested in identifying ticks — most people would prefer to spend as little time in their presence as possible — you can readily distinguish the adults of each species, if you have the stomach for it; their arachnid lives are inscrutable, and for many, just watching one creep along in its single-minded, zombielike drive for blood makes the skin crawl.
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For all the elements of the typical last-hurrah-of-high-school comedies that Booksmart expertly borrows from — its two main characters realize that in their single-minded quest to get into Ivy League schools, they've sacrificed a social life and decide that they have to go to at least one party before graduation — it also plays against some of these same stereotypes.
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I believe there are three ways we can deal with these challenges: We can retreat in fear,we can barrel ahead with a single-minded belief in our technology or we can fight like hell to do all the good we can do with the understanding that what we build will be used by people and people are capable of great beauty and great cruelty.
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And rather than keeping a single-minded focus on nuclear weapons, Mr. Trump suggested that the most tangible outcome of his meeting in Singapore might be some kind of peace agreement to formally end the Korean War — a lofty idea that featured in a 2005 joint statement that inaugurated George W. Bush's failed effort with Kim Jong-il, the current leader's father, to halt the North's nuclear progress.
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Some officials inside and out of the VA are concerned that a single-minded push to have interoperable computers in the two systems could come at the cost of good care at the VA. Clinical informatics leaders say any major EHR project should first and foremost be aimed at transforming a health care system to better deliver on its mission rather than forcing clinicians to adjust to a particular technology.
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Andreas Hronopoulos of Naughty America explains that the company believes there is a huge potential market for AR and VR strip club experiences because, while most people only go onto porn sites at one or two specific times of the day for as long as it takes them to get off, historically patrons have frequented strip clubs at varied hours, for longer amounts of time, using them as an erotic but not exclusively, single-minded masturbatory leisure space.
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After a day and a half of Democratic disarray, the vibes of the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection descended upon the Wells Fargo Arena, and Democrats ended their first night on a high of excitement, unity, togetherness, and a single-minded goal of blocking Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE from the White House.
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"The Name and the Number" shows us a single-minded, humorless young man who rebelled against his strict, civil-servant father, by vowing never to become a civil servant himself and never to pursue any career common to the petit bourgeoisie; who saw a higher destiny for himself as an artist, as a great painter or a great architect or even a great musician, but who had no patience for the effort and discipline such fields require; and who ultimately could not bear the vast gulf between his grandiose self-image and a world that continually rejected and humiliated him, to the point that he was living homeless on the streets of Vienna, selling shoddy paintings to bars and inns, too proud to return to his hometown in failure.
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