Lawyers from O'Melveny & Myers, representing United Health told the S.E.C., "The proposal provides that 'health care should be universal,' dictating to whom the company should provide coverage".
The emphasis of the appeal is in other words more personal and pragmatic and urgent when the prophet addresses the needs of the poor than it is when one addresses a universal dictate of how things ought to be, or a natural law that in its distracted abstraction presumes an absolute standard from which one ought not deviate.
With 40percentt of the market, Universal could dictate the terms of any licensing agreement with new digital music providers, making it an effective gatekeeper for new music platforms, according to music industry experts.
With such a large market position, the critics say, Universal could effectively dictate terms to technology companies — even big ones like Apple — and stunt development.
A long-standing idea that human languages share universal features that are dictated by human brain structure has been cast into doubt.
Wilson advanced a notion that is as significant for moral theory as the notion of norms dictated by universal, evolutionarily acquired preferences and indeed ultimately more useful, namely ambivalence.
These reflect fundamental performance limits dictated by universal conservation-type laws, and are independent of parameter choice.
Restriction to female sterilization based on parity was nearly universal amongst doctors, as dictated by the GoI guidelines, though of those who restrict, 83% required a client to have at least two children, which is in contradiction to the one child requirement stipulated in the GoI guidelines [ 25].
In Novum Organum (1620), Bacon was critical of the Aristotelian method for proceeding too quickly and leaping from particulars to universals, largely as dictated by the syllogistic form of reasoning which regularly mixed those two types of propositions.
Again, this experience does not dictate whether a universal proxy card is appropriate in other circumstances, but does caution that a universal proxy is not a "silver bullet" for companies facing majority- or full-board proxy contests, and that using a universal proxy can result in unpredictable outcomes.
