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London campuses have not proved universally successful (the University of East Anglia recently closed its campus, which had 325 students), but Coventry's is doing reasonably well, in particular with international students: of its 867 students, 678 are from non-EU countries.
Universally heartfelt tributes flooded in from politicians on Twitter this morning.
"Spitting is universally recognised as perhaps the ultimate degradation and it's bound to result in rather aggressive retaliation," mused the consultant psychologist Dr Aric Sigman years later, in some nostalgia-based clip show or other.
Germany's dealing with its two difficult pasts – the East German state socialist dictatorship and, much more importantly, Nazism and the Holocaust – has almost universally been considered a success, even a model for others to emulate.
The minister's letter concedes it has never been universally loved, but points out that in 1979 and 1980, soon after it opened, it won a string of construction and design awards.
That commitment followed the party through the election and into government, although it was not universally popular.
Reaction to the news has not been universally positive among Guardian readers: Adaptating sitcoms for the big screen can of course yield decent results – see recent examples Alpha Papa, The Inbetweeners and In the Loop.
"Most of the candidates we talk to are living with parents, in many cases ageing parents, and all the ones that come across our radar, are universally keen to work".
Margaret Simpson Northern Light Charters, 01631 740595, northernlight-uk.com It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman not in possession of a boyfriend goes on holiday with her friends.
But the OSCE observer report on the election catalogued many "legal and organisational shortcomings," noting that slavish media coverage gave Karimov a "clear advantage" and that "proxy voting on behalf of several voters appeared to be universally practised".
"The importance of counting the dead and retrieving their bodies is universally acknowledged as a crucial step in acknowledging their loss and producing an account of their deaths," it says.
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The adverb "universally" functions primarily as a modifier , specifying the extent or scope to which a statement or action applies. It indicates that something is true, applicable, or accepted by everyone or everything, without exception, as seen in Ludwig's examples.
Expression frequency: Very common
