These are the important and difficult questions that would need to be addressed instead of making comparisons on a universal set of variables, which may not universally apply.
World leaders have this year agreed on a universal set of sustainable development goals; continuing forest destruction puts such rhetoric to an immediate test.
Third, we need to work towards a universal set of goals, with commitments to action in the north and the south.
When I argued for a universal set of goals in 2010, it was a new idea; it is now conventional wisdom.
Teletext never took off in the United States because the marketplace was never able to agree to a universal set of standards.
But several decades after sexual abuse by priests became a problem, Benedict has not yet instituted a universal set of rules.
Drawing on conversations happening throughout the international networking community, they sketched a design for "a simple but very flexible protocol": a universal set of rules for how computers should communicate.
Cultural anthropologists too are unhappy with the idea of a universal set of six basic emotions, listing amongst others distress, shame, contempt, "mutual interdependence", melancholy, and even Hwyl, a Welsh term for inspiration – amongst them.
What all the lay world, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, is waiting for is a clear and universal set of guidelines that would help the church -- particularly seminaries and local parishes -- detect potential abusers before ordination.
The concept of "rights-based development", for example, holds that there is a universal set of standards, located in international human rights law, that are applicable in all countries throughout the world.
There is no single, universal set of organisational arrangements for managing scientific collaborations and assuaging conflicts.
