adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a universal theme (= subjects that affect people of all races and cultures )
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Readers everywhere can relate to the universal themes in his work.
universal approval (= from everyone )
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His appointment has been met with almost universal approval.
universal joint
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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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Colour-printing will soon become almost universal .
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There are, however, images that are almost universal , such as the cross or the spiral.
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The perception of women's inability to take on managerial positions are almost universal .
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Most important for our day is the almost universal support among economists for free trade and opposition to tariffs and import quotas.
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A large brain relative to body size is an almost universal foetal characteristic of vertebrates, and certainly of mammals.
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This is mostly due to the almost universal lowering of expectations among diehard fans and casual observers.
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This provoked an almost universal howl of outrage in Britain.
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One obvious example is the almost universal ban against committing adultery with another man s wife.
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But if women learn their social orientation, it may not be as universal or as unchanging as these female-associated methods suggest.
more
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Those seeking more universal generalizations may use different methods from those that seek more contextually specific levels of explanation.
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Real love is calmer and less intense and more universal .
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Everywhere one notices attempts to introduce greater purity, greater justice, greater perfection and a more universal explanation of things.
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Any grubby social thoughts the film might have evoked can be swiftly rejected in favour of a more universal muse.
■ NOUN
access
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The heads of government also promised to foster equality for women, and universal access to education.
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Comprehensive health insurance and universal access to health care has the potential to facilitate this process and improve surveillance.
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The deregulatory approach under Gats also threatens universal access to public services, workers' rights, environmental regulations and public health.
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In the debate about the I-way architecture, one issue dominates all others: universal access .
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In particular, it may be considered desirable to have universal access to basic utilities and essential services.
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Others insist that highway operators must provide universal access at reasonable cost.
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Almost universal access has become possible, even when the person being contacted does not want it to occur.
adult
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All elections are by universal adult suffrage.
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There is a unicameral Legislative Assembly of 70 seats, 62 of which are elected by universal adult suffrage for five years.
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The unicameral legislature, the National Assembly, is also elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage.
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There is a Federal Assembly of 42 members, elected by universal adult suffrage for a five-year term.
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Legislative authority is now vested in a unicameral National Congress, with 100 members elected for five years by universal adult suffrage.
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Executive authority: the President; legislative authority: the National Assembly; both elected by universal adult suffrage.
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Both houses are elected by universal adult suffrage and for terms of no longer than four years.
agreement
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Many old principles no longer command universal agreement and there are well-supported demands for new principles.
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Of course there is no universal agreement on these issues.
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The phrase is a familiar one but this does not necessarily imply that there is universal agreement over its meaning.
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We note in passing that initially there was no universal agreement about what exactly constituted a group.
appeal
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Within the field of electronic media, the film medium has the most universal appeal and impact.
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Its archetypal shape and colour have universal appeal , evoking a sense of fun and childhood.
application
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These days a credit card has universal application .
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While this rule depends upon the provisions of the federal and state constitutions, the reasoning has universal application .
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In this respect the sections purport to be of universal application .
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In consequence some authors suggest that the conventionally applied log-normal probability law is not suitable for universal applications in grain size analysis.
church
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Franciscan legend thus presented the faithful a generation later with Francis as the allegorical saviour of the universal Church .
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Secondly the universal church remains the visible presence of our Lord in action.
education
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Gurder was right, universal education was not a good idea.
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It believed in universal education and attempted to implement that ideal.
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Some limited degree of universal education was another obvious step towards the strengthening of the State and the fostering of general well-being.
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Especially in this great age of universal education .
feature
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It is these types of health problems which are perceived as being an integral, inevitable and universal feature of old age.
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None the less, some universal features stand out.
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Some instruments do now have built-in reverberation effects, but this is a far from universal feature .
health
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This is not as horrifying a prospect as critics of universal health care suggest.
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Even a relatively modest addition to the liberal framework, universal health coverage, remains elusive.
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I believe that progressive legislation like universal health care is essential and would be good for individuals and good for the country.
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When he first came into office, Clinton did have a few grander purposes in mind, particularly universal health care.
joint
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Notes A gimbal is a kind of universal joint that allows free rotation within a range of angles.
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In mechanical terms, the head is an elliptical spheroid with a single universal joint , the neck.
language
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It was an encyclopedic work, setting out the concept of a universal language as a comprehensive taxonomic structure.
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Computer literacy is becoming the universal language of business.
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This augurs well for the future and underlines the truth that music as a universal language is an important resource for ecumenism.
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His other interests included alchemy, medical remedies, and universal language schemes.
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Music in fact is a universal language of a non-verbal nature which is rich in expression.
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Firstly, such systems will need to talk to each other in a flexible, universal language .
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However, there is one big problem here, and that is that there is not a universal language for horses.
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Film, especially Hollywood film, is the world's universal language .
law
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There was now a universal law of gravitation.
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This kind of theft was a universal law , like the pull of gravity.
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Fine, for instance, declares that there can be no universal laws for feminist psychology.
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This is a universal law of vivisystems: higher level complexities can not be inferred by lower-level existences.
principle
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Can we expect to find the fundamental and universal principles in development?
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Beyond that, everything else is essentially a context-specific attempt to put those few universal principles into practice.
service
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They were private individuals or partnerships, paid by the state to provide a universal service free at the point of use.
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Earlier this month, the Federal Communications Commission finally adopted the so-called universal service guidelines.
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This reserved area, however, should be strictly limited to what is necessary to provide a universal service .
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The universal service fund also should provide a lift to libraries that are trying to launch themselves into cyberspace.
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The definition of a universal service and hence of reserved services has yet to be drawn up.
statement
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The inductivist account requires the derivation of universal statements from singular statements by induction.
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The reformulated principle is still a universal statement .
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The falsity of universal statements can be deduced from suitable singular statements.
suffrage
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Monarchy was as widely taken for granted at the end of the nineteenth century as is universal suffrage today.
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The propertied class which called itself liberal was immediately opposed to universal suffrage and to the masses in general.
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However, the government continued to resist demands for universal suffrage , preferring a power-sharing system.
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It was also the year of the first presidential election held under universal suffrage .
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Executive power is vested in the President, who is elected by universal suffrage for a five-year term.
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The constitutional commission had also agreed that the country's President should be elected by direct universal suffrage .
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Legislative authority is vested in a 50-member unicameral parliament, which is similarly elected by universal suffrage for a five-year term.
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In the referendum the population of Western Samoa voted narrowly in favour of the introduction of universal suffrage .
truth
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What Turing showed is that this is not a universal truth .
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Awareness becomes heightened, and everyday domestic dramas unfold into staggering universal truths .
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Yet we find it difficult to take these definitive events and state categorically that they are universal truths for women engineers.
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A universal truth has to be digested and made part of our thinking and understanding.
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He was about to learn a universal truth of professional journalism.
value
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For we are all, whatever our social position, essentially judged by the same universal values .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a universal language
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a universal truth
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It is not easy to write a song that has universal appeal.
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Popular culture seems to have universal appeal.
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Support for the government is by no means universal .
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There does not appear to be universal agreement on the future of the British monarchy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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How can there be a universal , species-specific human nature when every human being is unique?
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Most important for our day is the almost universal support among economists for free trade and opposition to tariffs and import quotas.
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Now there is to be the universal democracy of the microwave.
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Of necessity this will be specific to a company in terms of its markets and capabilities and a comprehensive universal list is not practical.
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Pizza also serves as a universal and very elastic unit of measure.
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The President is elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage.
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Will the West cling to the idea of universal worth while selfishly consuming Arab oil wealth and closing its borders to Arabs?