The phrase "a universal ban" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a prohibition that applies to everyone or everything without exception.
Example: "The organization has implemented a universal ban on plastic straws to promote environmental sustainability."
Alternatives: "an all-encompassing ban" or "a total ban".
Has it made a difference?It is too early to tell whether a universal ban can be made to stick.
The probable explanation of this kind of reference is a universal ban on circumcision that Hadrian issued in, it seems, the early 130s.
Indeed, 184 nations have already made a legal undertaking never to obtain nuclear weapons, and three in four support a universal ban.
In 2005, the United Nations adopted a 'Declaration on Human Cloning', which calls for a universal ban on human cloning.
Ascot says overseas trainers are quizzed about their use of medication, and Danny O'Brien, trainer of Shamexpress, backs a universal ban on anabolic steroids.
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At the release of the statement, Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi of the Islamic Society of North America noted, "we must say to ourselves first and then to the world that we want a total and universal ban on the possession and production of nuclear weapons" and argued for Islamic support of this view.
Remember the last full council meeting back in February and the lord mayor's decision to make a universal Twitter ban by asking all mobile phones and electronic equipment to be switched off?
Beyond restricting access to information, a universal VPN ban would make it difficult for some companies and employees based in China to do business.
One of those members, Representative Travis Childers of Mississippi, last year was able to win House approval of his plan to let residents of the District of Columbia buy and keep guns in their homes for self-protection, a further retreat from the district's virtually universal ban on legal handgun ownership that had already been relaxed by the Supreme Court.
This unwelcome campaign to give war a chance persists in spite of the fact that the very abuses that inspired the universal ban on war in 1945 have indeed been committed by the Americans and their allies in their assault on the old postwar sovereignty-based system of the UN charter.
