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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a universal value" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a principle or belief that is accepted and upheld by people across different cultures and societies.
Example: "Respect for human rights is often considered a universal value that transcends cultural boundaries."
Alternatives: "a global principle" or "a common belief".
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If you're J. Rufus Fears, professor of Classics and chair in History of Liberty at the University of Oklahoma, you're pretty sure that freedom is NOT a universal value.
Precision was not a universal value.
They are the ones that have a universal value.
Freedom of religion is not "an American invention," Mr. Kerry said, but rather a "universal value".
Others, however, argued that democracy is a universal value that transcends culture.
But he also defended the right to free expression as a "universal value".
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Cultural officials also objected to what they saw as the improper use of a monument with an intrinsic universal value.
That is a process of truth because in that subjective experience there is a certain universal value.
What does that say about power as a desirable universal value?
However, when a measure of the relative entropy is used, which quantifies the impact of word patterns in the statistical structure of languages, a robust universal value emerges across linguistic families.
Some cultural sites have an outstanding universal value — they belong to all and must be protected by all.
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