But the danger with all elimination or eradication campaigns is that the goal becomes all-consuming.
In his all-consuming pursuit of a first NBA title, James scored 29 points and grabbed 14 rebounds.
It would be hugely embarrassing, with Beckham sidelined as a massive monument to Ferguson's all-consuming desire for control.
Newton claimed that he invented it first, and given his personality, this became an all-consuming matter for him.
That way, he keeps himself stimulated by work that is all-consuming.
The all-consuming power of the game messes with brain cells.
The other part of following a sports team is the yearlong, all-consuming white noise of gossip and conjecture: hirings, firings, trades, executive machinations and maneuvers that sometimes happen but usually don't.
The existence of the OIC investigation was made public on the January 21st edition of the Washington Post, and was the all-consuming focus of media coverage for the ensuing eight months.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
Kim travelled to Buenos Aires four times before he decided to quit his high-paying but all-consuming corporate job in Los Angeles and open Casa Mun in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Palermo.
BBC: International cuisine in Buenos Aires�� puerta cerradas
She turned to intimate friends, such as Walter Berry, Henry James and Bernard Berenson, and, in her late 40s, fell into an all-consuming love affair with the dodgy and bisexual Morton Fullerton.
Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and the AUTOBOTS must fight against the darkness to defend our world from the DECEPTICONS' all-consuming evil in the smash hit from director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg.
Last year, Benjamin Curtis and twin sisters Ally and Claudia Deheza left the bands they were in, moved in together, set up a home recording studio and launched an all-consuming music project they call School of Seven Bells.
Over the next few days, in between checking to see if Fumiko had left her room, I allowed the twenty pages to become my obsession, the cynosure of my day-to-day life, as all-consuming as a new love affair.
The theater is small enough that the performers need never raise their voices: They speak of their all-consuming passions in the softest of tones, and we are drawn into their plight like a lifeboat being pulled into a whirlpool.
WSJ: Theater Review: The Subtle Joys of Small-Scale Sondheim
But he leaves little doubt that he sometimes chafed against the all-consuming nature of the Red Sox experience, saying that he looks forward to blending in in New York, the way he believes most players can (non Jeter-and-Alex Rodriguez division).
But it's still slack and amateurish, and unless you have an all-consuming interest in what the newspaper business was like at the tail end of the 20th century, it's hard to see how "Lucky Guy" comes anywhere near passing the who-cares test.
As laceratingly first-rate as Schulberg's writing and Kazan's direction were, the film would not have worked had the lead actor failed to be convincing as a person whose hungers were so self-centered and all-consuming that he would do anything and step on anyone to get what he wanted.
There is no perfect answer, but in a startup when you have to do everything all at once, learning it all is hard and time-consuming.
"The process of bidding, looking at results and strategizing with our clients to figure out their next move can be constant, consuming and all-encompassing, " says Herman, Towerstream's outside legal counsel, who is also representing several other bidders interested in different geographic areas.
He recognised that becoming too closely involved in fiddly negotiations can prove enormously time-consuming and, all too often, ultimately lead nowhere.
When the debt on which interest is paid equals the GDP level of a nation, the economy must grow faster than the interest rate to avoid debt-servicing costs consuming all the benefit of economic growth.
WSJ: Phil Gramm and Steve McMillin: The Debt Problem Hasn't Vanished
Organizing and harnessing the potential of communities to assist authorities at all levels of government is a time-consuming and costly undertaking.
Search has also replaced the time and energy we once used to find resources with the time-consuming task of evaluating all the sources that are out there.
应用推荐