Sentence examples for is virtually universal from inspiring English sources
Cynicism about condoms is virtually universal.
In Japan, land shortage and the high cost of property mean cremation is virtually universal.
In the language of the survey, "The practice of female circumcision is virtually universal among women of reproductive age in Egypt".
Mr. Jin adds that there is virtually universal agreement that Chinese brands will not pose serious competition to Western brands until well in the future.
The role of breast-feeding in the regulation of human fertility can be illustrated by the following calculation: in Pakistan breast-feeding is virtually universal, and many women breast-feed for two years or more.
Candy also happens to be a facet of human culture that is virtually universal -- "the one aspect of a cuisine that can almost always be enjoyed and understood by foreigners".
Early exposure to the poliomyelitis virus, which was virtually universal before the age of modern plumbing, guaranteed the development of antibodies.
According to Durkheim, totemism was fundamentally significant (he wrongly supposed it to be virtually universal), and in this he shared the view of some other 19th-century savants, notably Salomon Reinach (1858 1932) and Robertson Smith (1846 94), not to mention Sigmund Freud (1856 1939).
More than half of all schemes use trackers exclusively.In Britain DC pensions are virtually universal for new private-sector employees, and the total size of DC schemes is slowly overtaking the old DB funds (see chart 3).
Although it had been undertaken spottily in France as early as 1512, such numbering was not widespread until the 18th century, by the end of which it was virtually universal in France and England, and within a few years it was required in France.
Infidelity is a complex behaviour and while Brendan Zietsch, the lead author of this paper, is confident that genetic effects on behaviour are "virtually universal and highly replicable", he says he is cautious about the findings on AVPR1A, as further studies often fail to replicate the effects of single genes.
