The phrase "universal practice" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to something that is commonly accepted or done by everyone. Example: It is a universal practice to hold the door open for someone behind you.
It is by no means a universal practice.
This ancient and universal practice has been condemned as a worm that gnaws at the fruits of economic endeavour.
Norway's progress toward making breast-feeding a universal practice for mothers of infants should be an example for the United States (news article, Oct. 21).
The universal practice of music teachers and radio presenters pronouncing it as "Handle" or "Hahndel" was considered sacrilege by Professor Lang.
That by the end of the century virtuoso instrumentation had become universal practice is attested by any work of Richard Strauss or Gustav Mahler.
Taking yourself to the woodshed is no fun, which is probably why it is not a universal practice in public life.
Puzzle-solving is such an ancient, universal practice, scholars say, precisely because it depends on creative insight, on the primitive spark that ignited the first campfires.
One is that the dismantling of formal empires and the near-universal practice of self-determination have so far failed to produce the orderly, prosperous and equitable world for which liberals since Woodrow Wilson have hoped.
Most authors suggest that five core specimens per lesion are required for exact tumour classification (Parker et al, 1994; Philpotts et al, 2003); however, this has not been universal practice in clinical routine.
However, we feel confident that the feeding patterns were broadly representative of this rural area of Africa because of the universal practice of prolonged breast-feeding and using complementary foods of limited quality and variety.
In Turkish society this would nearly always be the mother-in-law and/or father in-law of the woman since it is near-universal practice in traditional settings for women, following marriage, to live with their spouse's family (i.e. it was not anticipated that there would be any families where the woman and her spouse were living with her own parents).
