Sentence examples for distinctive universal from inspiring English sources

And this music teacher did a wonderful unit on John Philip Sousa, and how the marching band was the distinctive, universal, American sound.

Christians believe God is concerned with every aspect of our lives – all of life is religious – and that marriage as traditionally defined is a distinctive, universal, created good.

A further refinement of autosegmental phonology is feature geometry, the idea that distinctive features form universal functional groupings.

Plato's distinctive 'separation of the universal' might then be viewed as his rejection of Socrates' assumption that the universal (and/or its essence) is in the sensibles, (and accordingly a rejection of Socrates' assumption that the definition is predicable, or predicable in the same way, of the sensible instances as well as the universal).

One distinctive benefit to the Universal, which is available online only: you can link to your Web portfolios, social media page and online newspaper or musical compositions.

This constructive tension between "distinctive [eigentümlich]" and "universal" sides of ethics survives to constitute the central principle of Schleiermacher's mature ethics lectures.

It outlines the steps we will take to ensure the BBC continues to be distinctive, high quality and universal in the future.

Government officials, missionaries, and parents alike accepted the notion that mission schools had a distinctive mandate to impart universal moral values missing from a purely secular education.

Thus far, haecceity has been considered entirely in the context of a very distinctive moderately realist theory of universals, one according to which universals fail to be (numerically) identical in all their particulars.

Still, the best stories here are so textured and moving, so universal but utterly distinctive, that it's easy to imagine readers savoring them many years from now.

So far, it is not at all clear how that vision is distinctive, beyond the laudable but universal aims of alleviating poverty, improving schools and hospitals and reinforcing meritocracy.