Sentence examples for universally believed from inspiring English sources

In ancient Greece, China, Babylon, and indeed all pre-modern civilizations, it was almost universally believed that Earth was the center of the Universe and that all the "planets" circled Earth.

The CIA's claims are no longer universally believed.

This was important, Brooks explained, because Americans almost universally believed that "fairness matters".

At least initially African slaves universally believed that posthumously they would return to their lands and rejoin their friends.

Equally, the climate for foreign investment in Russia was universally believed to have turned for the worst.

The transformation was slow, and not universally believed: Mr Arafat appeared at the United Nations talking of peace, but with a gun in his holster.

Palestinians, Khader included, universally believe that Camp David offered nothing more than a half-baked, hurried ultimatum of a deal.

This finding is both surprising and innovative, since tort scholars universally believe that the operation of the doctrines that determine individuals' liability for accidents negligence, causation, and damage is driven by harms, not benefits.

For years, Bosnians have fumed about their politicians - whom they almost universally believe to be corrupt.

But economists – in a poll commissioned by the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business – almost universally believe public employee pension shortfalls are understated due to pensions' use of non-standard accounting methods in which guaranteed benefit liabilities are "discounted" using the assumed return on an investment portfolio holding about three-quarters risky assets.

Have we really become a culture who now universally believes that every child on the team deserves a trophy regardless of effort and outcome?