Some of Ibn Gabirol's statements seem to support the superiority of universal matter; other passages, however, appear to imply the superiority of universal form.
The launching of the ideological campaign is most likely based on the conviction that the collapse of the Marxist/Communist Eastern camp during the Cold War proved once and for all the unquestionable superiority and universal applicability of democracy and its political and economic institutions.
Overall, results indicate the superiority of universal kriging over genomic BLUP in the presence of nonadditive effects.
In this way, the organization of the Treatise asserted the superiority of general and universal knowledge over military, mantic, and medical knowledge, deliberately framed as technical and limited in nature.
As with the country as a whole, the assumption of white racial superiority was almost universal among those on all sides of the issue, and it was common for congregations to have separate seating for black members.
So the white people "helped" the colored (or "un-color-blind") people by colonizing their land and enslaving their people, which was all justified on the basis of the superiority of the universal culture-less-ness of Western European civilization that came to be the mystery of today's "whiteness".
But conservatives feared that embracing universal values would mean acknowledging the superiority of the West's political systems.
They felt that although it was theoretically based on a belief in universal equality, it still assumed the superiority of European culture and civilization over that of Africa (or assumed that Africa had no history or culture).
On their way through a war zone, the group is joined by a pair of French anthropologists, whose fate when the bus is captured by a rebel army offers an ironic commentary on entrenched ideas of racial superiority, national pride and universal brotherhood.
Despite its apparent adaptive superiority, phenotypic plasticity is neither universal nor infinite in expression.
