Jay Inslee of Washington to focus single-mindedly on climate change.
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I'm pretty sure you were single-mindedly focused on your own.
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The Obama administration has single-mindedly pursued a nuclear deal with Iran.
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They complained that she was single-mindedly focused on criticizing the military.
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These fans are well-organized and single-mindedly devoted to the Bangtan Boys.
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Ms. Warren's responses sounded almost as single-mindedly focused on the single-payer approach.
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Before Sandberg's arrival at Facebook, Zuckerberg was almost single-mindedly focused on the user experience.
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The question dividing approaches now is how single-mindedly to focus on that one issue.
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"I got into Hindi films to make money and pursued money quite single-mindedly," he said.
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We can make rom-coms in which one love interest doesn't single-mindedly stalk the other.
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For a long time now, the Minnesota Twins have been as single-mindedly tedious as LeMay.
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It's more of a culmination of what's occupied Scorsese, almost single-mindedly, for so many decades.
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Until very recently, success in Silicon Valley required focusing almost single-mindedly on an organization's technical prowess.
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Single-mindedly they snaked toward Ms. Longshore, who stood at the rear of the room dispensing hugs.
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The report reveals the dangers for American tech companies, which have until recently single-mindedly focused on growth.
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She wasn't an abortion crusader one way or the other; she was single-mindedly focused on birth control.
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In a culture so single-mindedly focused on personal empowerment and victory over victimization, how could she not?
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Single-mindedly maximising scores for positive traits like intelligence or height may therefore increase the risk of genetic disorders.
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He spent years chasing an A1C of seven, spurred on by doctors who focused single-mindedly on that number.
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" But Warren was single-mindedly passionate about one thing: "Millions of people are now reading Coretta Scott King's letter.
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They spend their lives fighting poverty, caring for the young or the sick, or single-mindedly dedicated to some cause.
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The teenagers enrolled in Def Dance are all single-mindedly pursuing the same aim: to become a K-pop idol.
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Moreover, insisting single-mindedly that abortion should be "rare" further stigmatizes the one in three women who will make this decision.
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He also cautioned investors to not focus single-mindedly on currently high dividends but to keep in mind the long game.
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These are writerly men confident that they've nailed women's psyches, all because of how single-mindedly they want to nail women.
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She also advised the financial sector to work with a sense of purpose and not "single-mindedly" for the pursuit of profits.
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He very single-mindedly pursued her for a couple years, and he still had a key to the flat that they rented.
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Bernie Sanders, are themselves Jewish — who are not necessarily as single-mindedly focused on this issue as Republicans would like them to be.
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Too many are still shadowboxing over the by-now-general acceptance of human responsibility and remain single-mindedly fixated on greenhouse gas emissions.
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Roosevelt batted away one Churchill effort to derail the D-Day invasion after another, single-mindedly determined to seize the beaches of Normandy.
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It is somewhat different from the Western sort, being directed more single-mindedly towards academic success, and works particularly well in maths and science.
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At the nearest rest stop, I dashed into a bathroom so single-mindedly I didn't turn on the lights and collapsed onto the toilet.
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There was the hearing on the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia, guided by the committee's Democrats who single-mindedly bored in on the topic.
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If there's one thing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been single-mindedly focused on this year, it's confirming as many judges as possible.
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For example, she pierces through the narrative that Assange was single-mindedly trying to help Donald Trump and hurt Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
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He's a luckless chutney peddler who has raised his sons so single-mindedly, so utterly devoted to cricket and nothing else, that they hate him.
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And aside from childhood jobs as a paperboy and a lifeguard, he has single-mindedly devoted his life to reaching the pinnacle of his sport.
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In 2.59, after decades of single-mindedly pursuing economic growth, often to the detriment of the environment and public health, the Chinese government changed course.
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In recent weeks, the artist has been single-mindedly focused on Disenchantment, with one final promotional push before the series makes its mid-August Netflix debut.
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Amazon and Jeff Bezos are single mindedly focused on delivering value to the consumer — they too make their revenue and profits by selling directly to you.
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But, he added, "I don't think you can look at all these cases and say this is someone who is single-mindedly hostile toward environmental lawmaking."
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Justice Democrats has the potential to change the game because there's never before been a progressive organization single-mindedly focused on deliberately courting ideologically-driven primaries.
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He&aposs been single-mindedly focused on tearing up the Iran nuclear deal than he-- (CROSSTALK) SMITH: So I know you are saying this claim is false.
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He has been agitating single-mindedly against the nuclear deal, even at the risk of fraying Israel's close ties with the United States during the Obama administration.
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Men single-mindedly crave them while women reluctantly give, but only sometimes, the way you'd take out the trash or resign yourself to your partner's movie choice.
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They assuredly will not retain the hard-won majority if they are perceived as single-mindedly heading down the impeachment, or even the Mueller-Barr, rabbit hole.
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He announced, generously, that he finally realized his father loved him after all, but his father's way of loving was to work so hard and single-mindedly.
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Nico Rosberg, Hamilton's former team mate, has spoken of how much his family suffered as he focused single-mindedly on beating the Briton to the 2016 title.
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But rather than taking steps to address that issue, he is single-mindedly pursuing his wall agenda — possibly at a steep political risk for his own party.
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Instead of considering these critical national priorities, the proposal single-mindedly concentrates on one issue to the exclusion of all others: the raw dollars spent on network deployment.
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Beset by allegations of corruption in AK and opposed by former allies, he is single-mindedly pursuing a constitutional change that would extend the powers of his presidency.
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The atmosphere is competitive when Jupiter and Pluto clash; people become obsessive, single-mindedly clawing their way to the top, consumed by their need for power and control.
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Certainly, the Fox News crowd is very fired up right now, and Trump's presidential campaign is already cutting ads accusing Democrats of single-mindedly attacking him via impeachment.
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And while a single-mindedly slanted talk show can run the risk of feeling dogmatic and intellectually deficient, one without a perspective or clear thesis is just as hazardous.
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But during the trial, Carleton argued that investigators ignored crucial evidence and that they pursued O'Neill single-mindedly, and that ultimately, the state's evidence did not support a conviction.
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In other words, focus single-mindedly on your most challenging and important task for 90 minutes at a time, then give your brain a rest and let it recharge.
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"Any reference to bodily function, any slightly risqué word, anything, as Douglas Adams put it, 'to do with life,' was single-mindedly expunged," Mr. Palin wrote in his diary.
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Trump has positioned himself as challenging Republican Party orthodoxy, and, for months, one of the orthodoxies he has most loudly and single-mindedly challenged is the wisdom of invading Iraq.
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Single-mindedly focused on the DeMille aspects, the changes of scene that make up a tiny fraction of the run time, the Lepage "Ring" won't stop answering the wrong question.
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By pursuing them single-mindedly, wouldn't the party be falling into a 1990s pothole again, ignoring the rising numbers of nonwhite and Millennial voters who lean left of blue-collar whites?
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It's always sad when a homegrown site that single-mindedly pursues a single goal, and in this case one that is arguably a public service, legal or no, is forced to bow out.
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For me, John represented the pinnacle of who a legislator and committee chair should be — a public servant single-mindedly devoted to solving the problems and improving the lives of the American people.
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Since coming to power in 2015, Prime Minister Antonio Costa's Socialists have focused single-mindedly on restoring fiscal credibility, something that helped win the prestigious post of Eurogroup leader for their finance minister.
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Harriet Schaefer, who has worked for Planned Parenthood for 30 years and is now the practice manager of the Akron center, said opponents ignore the other services and focus single-mindedly on abortion.
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Still, with Democrats single-mindedly focused on defeating President Trump, and with the country as a whole dismayed by a growing pandemic, both candidates offered assurances of mutual support for the general election.
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As we began our conversation, Mr. Gates readily acknowledged that the person he is today is not one he would have recognized when he was in his 21s and single-mindedly building Microsoft.
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"For decades, many corporations have single-mindedly pursued profits at the expense of everything else — employees, communities and the air, land and water we all share," Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario wrote on LinkedIn.
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Though the Raiders appeared to single-mindedly pursue Gruden as Del Rio's replacement, the N.F.L. spokesman Joe Lockhart said the team had satisfied the "Rooney rule" by interviewing minority candidates for the job.
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The brand wants to shed its bro image — reflected in a string of infamous commercials showing women single-mindedly lusting after men's deodorants — and replace it with a more modern, nuanced take on masculinity.
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The TIP single-mindedly made the case that Texas needed to keep out the immigrants and regain its sovereign status, and that the only way to do that was to leave the United States.
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But she ultimately becomes almost single-mindedly obsessed with caring for the animal, neglecting her friends and letting her life slowly unravel as she becomes more and more isolated from the rest of the world.
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The book is single-mindedly literary and, for the most part, backward-looking: Only a few of the authors Ozick discusses are living, and almost all of them are figures she has written about before.
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Church became a professor at Harvard, set up his own lab and sought other scientists in his own mold: People who didn't necessarily look perfect on paper, but were single-mindedly focused on ambitious research.
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In a country where U.S. policy has been confused and contradictory, Russia has been single-mindedly focused on keeping Assad in power, analysts said, making any U.S. attack either unnecessarily risky or not strong enough.
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A role like Azucena, often bludgeoned to death with sheer volume, became in her performance a kaleidoscope of colors and textures, revealing a more varied and affecting character than the single-mindedly grim standard portrayal.
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Robert's Rules — still in use in volunteer firehouses, City Councils, school boards and elsewhere — win strong partisans for the way participants fall in line, don't filibuster and work single-mindedly and democratically toward a common goal.
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By focusing single-mindedly on the ungraceful attitudes of some Trump supporters, rather than proposing ways to ameliorate the decades of discontent that caused them to reject ordinary political norms, Hillary is taking quite a gamble.
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Whereas women are expected to drop everything and single-mindedly focus all their free time — however little they may have — on their family, men are rarely held to the same bar, in popular culture as in real life.
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Many American cities still rely on "level of service" (LOS) design models developed in the 1960s that focus single-mindedly on keeping vehicle traffic moving, according to Elizabeth Macdonald, an urban design specialist at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Few pianists have been so single-mindedly dedicated to building the repertoire of new music for their instrument as Ursula Oppens, a longtime champion of avant-garde works by composers from Elliott Carter to Meredith Monk to Frederic Rzewski.
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In the reckoning over sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, and the #metoo solidarity that's followed, I've thought back on what I observed as far as predatory behavior while I was single-mindedly trying to be one of the guys.
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And the second is that the system would be so brilliant that it could cure cancer but also so idiotic that it would single-mindedly pursue one goal, ignoring all the other goals as it tries to achieve this one feat.
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No matter how viewers feel about Weiner's infidelities, or his repeated lies about them, it's still discomfiting to see how ruthlessly and single-mindedly the journalists around him chase any whiff of humiliation, generally with a tone of smug, patronizing superiority.
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Foxes function well as entrepreneurs, even though they might be single-mindedly devoted to their companies and their missions; Ford started two failed enterprises before the Ford Motor Company — and maybe even three, depending on how you assess his fortunes.
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And legislators who are single-mindedly focused on taking away the Affordable Care Act must acknowledge the potential consequences of restricting, rather than expanding, access to contraceptive services, and ask themselves whether that is really what they, or their constituents, want.
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As several representatives who actually worked on the 1996 Telecommunications Act (under the authority of which all this is playing out) wrote: The proposal single-mindedly concentrates on one issue to the exclusion of all others: the raw dollars spent on network deployment.
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"Trump's great genius is to try and reduce everyone to his level and approach, and he wants to be able to paint Democrats as single-mindedly bent on his destruction," said David Axelrod, a Democratic strategist and former top adviser to Barack Obama.
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"This includes the possibility that we will be annihilated by artificial intelligence, whether as direct targets of their will to power or as collateral damage of their single-mindedly pursuing some goal we give them," writes Pinker in The Globe and Mail.
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The rabidly anti-Trump reporters covering the summit were single-mindedly obsessed by the collusion myth – determined to prove that the Trump presidential campaign colluded with Russia to help Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential race, despite no real evidence to support this cockamamie theory.
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The party's leadership wants to avoid impeachment proceedings at all costs, and they succeeded in the midterm elections in part because they focused so single-mindedly on issues like health care, rather than the daily barrage of tweets and scandals emanating from the White House.
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She has spent the last six years as president of the National Front single-mindedly focused on one objective: erasing the stain of her party's association with the ex-collaborationists, right-wing extremists, immigrant-hating racists and anti-Semites who founded it 45 years ago.
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With such a decentralized organizational structure, al Qaeda may never be truly eradicated, even though it has sometimes had to compromise on its ideological purity and concern itself with local issues and enemies rather than single-mindedly focus on attacking the "far enemy," the West.
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What if you could will your way to get "in the zone," and become so single-mindedly focused on the task at hand (like schooling those friends who think you couldn't hit the broad side of a Costco warehouse) that the action becomes natural, smooth, almost automatic?
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The page described the game as a survival-horror adventure with a sophisticated branching narrative, allowing players to create their own storyline for protagonist Benjamin Willard — whether that meant single-mindedly pursuing the rogue special forces agent Colonel Kurtz or sitting on a boat dropping acid.
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Maybe we're drawn to the idea that in order to be truly successful, we'd have to give up on kindness and put generosity on hold, shave off all our human concerns and cut out our close relationships, to focus single-mindedly on the target of wild success.
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Whereas Briggs offers lyrical, insightful and contrapuntally crafted meditations on the art of translation — intercut with responses to an impressive range of writers, thinkers and theorists, most notably Roland Barthes — Moser reduces her book to a facile "argument" that he then attacks narrowly and single-mindedly.
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Narrated by interviews with curators who rediscover Kusama at inflection points in her career — with a few appearances by peers like Carolee Schneemann — we see Kusama single-mindedly pushing her way into the male-dominated art world of the late 1950s and early '60s, sometimes to comedic effect.
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In that sense, she was a precursor to right-wing women who claim the mantle of tradition and oppose virtually any measure to make life better for women who are not themselves, while single-mindedly pursuing their own careers and political futures: Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham.
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It also turned into a headache for Democrats on Capitol Hill, who are trying to propose what they often describe as "reasonable" gun legislation and are single-mindedly focused on forcing Republicans to take up the background checks bill, having decided to drop a push for an assault weapons ban.
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To the Editor: Re "North Korea Crosses a Line, but U.S. Has Few Options" (news analysis, front page, July 5): To date, no expert in geostrategic policy has devised a surefire way to thwart North Korea from single-mindedly developing its nuclear program, all the way to an intercontinental capability.
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"Def Comedy Jam," which is returning for the second time with a new title, "All Def Comedy," for one episode on Saturday, also faced the same issues that black comics of the era did: being pigeonholed by critics who single-mindedly focused on the profanity and applied moral standards never used for their white counterparts.
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Alex Swerdloff (Staff Writer, New York): How a Pot-Dealing Suburban Boy Became Miami's Best Baker Miami's food scene has changed pretty drastically since I was a kid and Zak undoubtedly represents a new type of food professional who is less concerned about wowing tourists with spectacle and more concerned about single-mindedly creating the best product possible.
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Being the nerd is better achieved if you are directing your time to single-mindedly learning a set of skills, rather than being suckered into grazing within walled garden content farms like Facebook where mass market entertainment, co-mingled with advertising, is the ceaselessly refreshed algorithmic dish of the day, all the better to keep a passively engaged user-base clicking.
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An airline pilot who became prime minister largely because his mother and grandfather had held the same post, and who allegedly received kickbacks from a Swedish arms manufacturer into Swiss bank accounts, Mr. Gandhi appeared to perfectly embody a pseudo-socialist elite that claimed to supervise post-colonial India's attempt to catch up with the modern West but that in reality single-mindedly pursued its own interests.
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Just as the U.S. and its allies failed to anticipate and prevent the rise of ISIS, we are now on the brink of single-mindedly focusing on states' short-term security needs and failing to address the clear short- and long-term needs of the children of ISIS — which down the road could lead to countless other personal and societal tragedies, but which are preventable.
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Still, it would be foolish to think other teams won't decide based on this case to include in future draft evaluations the possibility that a player will have a mother, father, or some other family member who develops a public voice that can be used to complicate the organization's desire to remove distractions and to focus single-mindedly on the challenge of winning football games.
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On the other hand, it's worth asking why the full brunt of the most extreme TERFs' ire is so often directed at individual trans women who are just trying to get by like the rest of us, rather than on the fact that the media insists on focusing so single-mindedly on trans performances of gender that endorse a regressive, man-pleasing version of femininity to the exclusion of the many diverse others.
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If they single-mindedly back President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE as House Republicans did in 85033, they will end up in the same position, which is where Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE (R-Ky.) appears to be leading them today.
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