Both Spain and Belgium amended their universal jurisdiction laws for this reason.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Standing down the hanging jury

Conflicts of sentiment and convention are universal, of course, which is one reason why Wharton's novels still appeal.

ECONOMIST: All that glitters

To see the universal arguments about the individual and society, God and reason, good and bad and so on, and thus escape from the binding imperatives of the now - by which I mean the dictatorship of whatever ideas are most pressingly forced on us in the day-to-day by government, media, fashion, political correctness and so on.

BBC: Why does France insist school pupils master philosophy?

The staggering cost to the state was a big reason that Arnold Schwarzenegger's ambitious plan to extend universal health coverage with help from a mandate recently collapsed.

ECONOMIST: Health care

For some reason people associate the word 'basic' with 'universal' and assume that everyone is entitled to the full-rate basic state pension when they achieve whatever retirement age is relevant for them to be entitled to payment.

BBC: Fergus Muirhead

One reason: We're just about the first generation to learn universal hedonism in our youth.

FORBES: Opinion

It is for that reason so many questions are being asked about the practicalities and implications of Universal Credit.

BBC: Welfare reform: A chance to curb fraudulent payments?

Constantly seeing powerful locomotives and precise signalling mechanisms, listening to the roar from the engines of heavy freight trains, the switchman felt that his reason had triumphed, as if he, too, were to blame for all this universal technological power and its charm.

NEWYORKER: Among Animals and Plants