Mr. Reich's career has been one of single-minded commitment without the aggrandizement.

But these were not men who could afford such single-minded commitment.

A single-minded commitment to economic recovery and growth has produced a dramatic rise in material standards of living and the world's second largest capitalist economy.

This single-minded commitment to the practical in turn made plausible that stock 20th-century rationale for committing high crimes: "We were just doing our job."

But they are directed at a single-minded commitment to integration.

In some ways this is a heart-rending book, for there is no doubting Benn's single-minded commitment to his adopted class.

And he has a single-minded (and often disconcerting) commitment to earnestness: after many songs he told his fans how grateful he was to have them.

It was its single-minded, blind, ideological commitment to deregulation that led to a catalogue of disastrous decisions on which BSE evolved.

He expressed convictions developed over a lifetime of single-minded commitment to justice.

He had a totally single-minded commitment to finding out what had to be done.