| It means they're not distracted, and they can single-mindedly focus on the other team. |
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| To date, official donor strategies for aid effectiveness have single-mindedly focused on donor-government relationships. |
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| And Mark and Charles are single-mindedly pursuing their goal of overtaking the boats ahead of them before they hit the finishing line! |
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| With most of Haiti paralyzed by the disaster, Mr. Villard rushed single-mindedly forward. |
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| Japan single-mindedly pursued nuclear power even as Western nations distanced themselves from it. |
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| He has single-mindedly focused on running the party into the ground since he beat the silvertail Liberal leader. |
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| Although he supports his mother financially, he presents him as stingy and ungrateful, single-mindedly devoted to his own success. |
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| We have worked single-mindedly to create equal opportunities for girls and boys. |
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| Even so, we must work more single-mindedly than before to build an EU that can speak with one voice and act with one agenda in the world. |
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| We must therefore resist opportunism and single-mindedly go the way we in this Parliament have decided on the basis of the law. |
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| We must single-mindedly pursue the process that started in May and July as far as an Association Agreement. |
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| We must continue the reform of national social protection systems single-mindedly. |
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| But halfway up a steep rock face, he spies a butterfly he doesn't recognize and swings his net single-mindedly. |
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| Alt.country fans saw him as an apostate, in contrast to Farrar, whose post-Uncle Tupelo work was single-mindedly countrified. |
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| Their decision to focus single-mindedly on enlargement paid off handsomely: Europe can now reunite. |
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| Champions must focus ruthlessly and single-mindedly on the pursuit of victory—hardly the cuddliest of qualities. |
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| Croatia is on the right road and is determined to pursue that road single-mindedly. |
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| By means of a far-sighted policy, Parliament has for a long time been working single-mindedly to make the forthcoming enlargement possible. |
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| All other sports associations must also make an effort and single-mindedly work for an environment of equality in sport. |
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| Everyone single-mindedly pursues his or her own route. |
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| He is portrayed as single-mindedly obsessed by Iraq. |
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| Mr. Khodorkovsky pursued his oil interests single-mindedly. |
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| While most of the guests single-mindedly followed the arrow to make their way downstairs, two participants in wheelchairs were left sitting at the top of the steps, casting irritated looks to their left and right. |
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| Each day, the Group's 1,500 staff share its ambition to practice the business of generalist distance selling, single-mindedly concentrating on efficiency, added value, and responsibility towards the Group's partners. |
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| This is not a radical idea, but only seems so in a country single-mindedly dedicated to replicating the economically convenient tropes of suburban sprawl. |
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| Even if all the nations of the earth were to band together and single-mindedly build the biggest atom smasher in all history, it would still not be enough to test the theory. |
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| He is impressed by how the Chelsea boss single-mindedly focuses on results when other managers say their coaching philosophy is more important. |
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| And the correspondence is evidence that he was not alone in thinking along those lines, even if he did pursue the idea more single-mindedly than others did. |
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| In summer 2003 they founded Spectraseis as a limited company, and single-mindedly set about implementing the idea in the market. |
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| Nobody works a subway more single-mindedly. |
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| He worked single-mindedly during many years to achieve this objective. |
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| We believe Canadians want politicians, all of us in this chamber, to focus single-mindedly on the economic crisis that, unfortunately, has engulfed the world, and the world includes Canada. |
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| It is in our shared interest to ensure that the United States is engaged and connected, and does not single-mindedly embark on a road determined by isolated self-interest alone. |
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| The Bradford boss is impressed by how Chelsea's manager single-mindedly focuses on results when other managers say their coaching philosophy is more important. |
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| Businesses that are already caught up in litigation, or who have been in the past, can often only put business integrity management into practice if they pursue the consequences single-mindedly. |
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| The essay is governed by a kind of primitive historicism that single-mindedly and even simple-mindedly strives to identify Hamlet with James. |
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| However, this means that pressure must be brought to bear on those who single-mindedly continue to cultivate their economic links with the military regime with utter disregard for the need for democratisation. |
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| The European Union calls on all Burundians to turn away from violence and move single-mindedly along the road to a peaceful and negotiated solution of their problems. |
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| The predominant opinion amongst my colleagues from the Caribbean States was that the time has come to look to the future, to stop crying over spilt milk and to single-mindedly implement the Economic Partnership Agreements. |
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