Sentence examples for not universally understood from inspiring English sources

The button proved a problem because it was "not universally understood", according to a spokesperson.

Rowan Williams often gets a rough ride in the press and is certainly not universally understood in the parish.

For reasons not universally understood, some Columbia officials have a notion that academic freedom requires them to invite this man to their Morningside Heights campus.

Mrs. James had long been a fabric addict, an affliction most commonly seen in women and not universally understood by men.

Additionally, according to university officials across the state, it is a student population with needs and experiences that are not universally understood.

The term human rights also replaced the later phrase the rights of Man, which was not universally understood to include the rights of women.

This is a profound way to think about data, but it isn't universally understood among educators.

What happens after this stage, though, is not as universally understood.

Wouldn't a universally understood gesture be handy to express, while driving — "yikes, sorry, didn't mean to cut you off, my mistake" — to pre-empt more common gestures that fly during such encounters?

Race and class do not trump the universally understood panicked weightlessness of a fading American adolescence.

Items relating to how 'comfortable' the injection was (item 21) and to notions of 'feeling in control' (item 8) were not clearly or universally understood by patients.