We reassert the universal values of tolerance, mutual respect and human dignity.
Traditional marriage has evolved from a near-universal rite to a luxury for the educated and affluent.
Francis Fukuyama took the optimists' garland by declaring, in 1992, "the end of history" and the universal triumph of Western liberalism.
I don't know if that was a local term or if it is universal; "on the latch" meant the door was closed but not locked.
In 1910, a young man by the name of Lu Shi 'e wrote a fictional novel a New China, envisaging how a universal exposition was held in Shanghai's Pudong area 100 years later.
A pigeon (the universal city dweller) marks the minutes.
The AIDS epidemic demonstrated the relevance of equity and universal access in an especially vivid way.
Chester Finn of the Thomas Fordham Institute, an education think-tank, is no fan of universal preschool.
But Barack Obama resorted to empty waffle, endorsing the idea of universal coverage but confessing that he had not yet produced a health-care plan.
Mitt romney-a Republican who recently ended a stint as Massachusetts's governor and now wants to be president-received mostly praise for his plan to make health insurance universal in his state.
The law of action and reaction is universal.
In practice, many countries promise universal coverage but ration care or have extremely long waiting lists for treatment.
Culture is important, but underneath cultural differences there are these universal aspirations for dignity, for political systems that listen to, respond to and respect the will of the people.
Do they deserve universal derision?
These diseases are now everywhere, driven as they are by universal forces, like urbanization and the globalization of unhealthy lifestyles.
Scientific optimism after the second world war led a leading American oncologist, Sidney Farber, to talk in 1962 of the underlying “singularity” of cancer, and to postulate a “universal cure”.
To force the test situation toward manageable proportions it is universal practice to calibrate.
Spotlight effect is a universal experience that distorts our egocentric notion about the degree to which people in groups, like parties and work gatherings, pay attention to us.
The notions of stress and strain developed quantitatively in Chapter I are universal notions.
The malady is universal.
This was a point made by Unesco last week in its annual report on the progress being made towards universal primary education for all - one of the core millennium goals.
Einstein's theory of relativity won for him universal esteem.
Much of this is speculative, but I do believe in a "natural morality" which is experienced as "conscience," and which is universal in "normal" humans.
The NPT is one of the most successful international accords in history, currently enjoying almost universal membership.
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