Sentence examples for universal in application from inspiring English sources

Considerably less universal in application is the latest Con Edison cast-iron manhole cover.

In particular, laws should be open and clear, general in form, universal in application, and knowable to all.

That sentence — an arresting thought, specific in detail but universal in application, meditating on the past but resolutely of the present — is a model of Michaels's novelistic aesthetic, which she shares with her contemporary and fellow Torontonian Michael Ondaatje.

Typically a pithy, easily memorized aphoristic saying based on experience and universal in application, the mashal in its simplest and oldest form was a couplet in which a definition was given in two parallel lines related to each other either antithetically or synthetically.

Related to publicity is that principles should be universal in application.

However, most digital cameras do not have that function owing to cost or imaging quality consideration, which makes the approach not universal in application.

Formally, Rousseau argues that the law must be general in application and universal in scope.

This rule was universal in its application.

Precedent established in an 1886 case (Yick Wo v Hopkins) held that the promises of equal protection "are universal in their application, to all persons within the territorial jurisdiction without regard to any differences of race, of colour, or of nationality; and the equal protection of the laws is a pledge of the protection of equal laws".

"I believe that America is an exceptional nation, founded by exceptional statesmen, who drafted an exceptional declaration, which is universal in its application, but which was exceptional in its use as the definition of nationhood and as a starting point for the formation of a government," Mr. Harmer said.

Third, seminal reasons are not, as we have just seen, universal in their application to the living things that occur within the order of natural history; human beings, at least in terms of their souls, fall outside the range of influence of seminal reasons.