During the 2014-2015 school year we asked students to create and enter videos on one of these three global challenges: universal education, diminishing farmland, and the sixth mass extinction.
In reaction to the McCarthyite red-baiting of scientists, he expressed disdain that Science, that was going to save the world in H. G. Wells' time is regimented, straight-jacked, [and] scared shitless, its universal language diminished to one word: security.
Misuse of such a universal term risks diminishing a collective understanding of our world.
He and Kafka's editor, Max Brod, sought to cast the writer in a Jewish context, without diminishing the universal meaning of his work.
Writing in the 1930s, he felt that even tentative moves towards greater equality, such as universal education, had diminished the purifying force of social selection.
The paper promised a "universal" scheme enabling pensioners with diminishing funds to defer care costs until their death.
San Diego's movement toward neotraditional urbanism coupled with an increasing reliance on mass transit mirrors a trend that is on the rise in cities everywhere, and Ford shows how this movement has the potential to revitalize transit nodes based on small-town place identity, while diminishing the once universal trend toward homogeneous strip malls.
Sheer heroism will not solve the problems that will be encountered during a pandemic, because high-risk behaviours (for example, failure to use universal precautions) might further aggravate problems by rapidly diminishing the numbers of available physicians.
The government must withdraw this shameful and unprecedented request, which risks diminishing both Tasmania's wilderness and the universal significance of world heritage protection.
"With animation in particular, you can clearly control costs while not diminishing the audience's pleasure," said Nikki Rocco, Universal's president for distribution.
That may well be true, but at the same time, this has not diminished the universal craving for stories.
