Tunisians' grievances were as specific as universal: rising food prices, corruption, unemployment and the repression of a state that viewed almost all dissent as subversion.
Likewise, American success in the mid-term in bringing democratic change to Islam may in fact be the catalyst for renewed resistance -- and resistance not confined simply to radical groups, but a universal rising against us.
Shares of Universal rose 50 cents, to $30.1875, on the New York Stock exchange.
Vivendi Universal rose $2.17, to $11.93, helped by a letter to shareholders by the chief executive, Jean-René Fourtou, announcing $1.97 billion in financing from creditor banks and expressing confidence that the company would overcome its financial crisis.
Rather than an instance of the universal sun rising, such an event would be a universal in its own right, albeit a universal of such a restricted sort and of such a degree of singularity as to be instantiated only once.
All eight sectors posted a larger number of temp vacancies in October - the first universal rise since June 2012.
Owl City's album, "Ocean Eyes" (Universal Republic), rose 12 spots to No. 8, with 28,000 sales, possibly helped by the inclusion of one of its songs on the soundtrack to the CW show "90210".
One of the most compelling chapters is Piketty's discussion of the near-universal rise of what he calls the "social state".
Moreover, American research suggests that the decline in disability among older people has accelerated: it was faster in the first half of the 1990s than in the 1980s.So why the near-universal rise in the number of people of working age who claim to be disabled?
It may well be ousted from its position by a rising universal bank, HSBC, which has quietly doubled the size of its investment bank in recent years.Banks such as Morgan Stanley and Europe's contenders, UBS, Credit Suisse and France's BNP Paribas and Société Générale, will not disappear, nor will they retreat entirely to their home turf.
Yet, there are many cases of languages that contradict the putatively universal pattern of rising questions (van Heuven and van Zanten 2005).
