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Yidir is a universal artist.
It has no absolute and universal significance.
Music is a universal language.
Music is the universal language.
Do we need a universal language?
The sun is the universal medicine of the pharmacy of the heavens.
No taboo is known to be universal.
The egg is a universal symbol of life and rebirth.
For a language to be universal, it is not enough to call it that.
Always act in such a way that you can also will that the maxim of your action should become a universal law.
A group of American architects, product designers, engineers and scientists have developed the seven principles of universal design.
I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.
English is a kind of universal language.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
She became an object of universal admiration.
A ball-pen became a universal handwriting tool, replacing fountain pen.
The rights of children are universal.
Nelson Mandela was one of those rare people who manage to win universal acclaim throughout the world.
Movie subtitles
They participated in the universal law which is. to please oneself. to seek oneself. and to find oneself.
These inventions cry out for the goodness in man, for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.
Look, Osip, you're saying this verse is for universal happiness?
We can confirm without doubt that universal freemasonry has achieved its goal.
Well, you're now a member of a great universal fraternity.
This scene will have a universal certificate.
Like a universal coupling joint.
Or did he say there was nothing but a world of stars, moons, galaxies, and universal dust?
How's that for universal appeal?
The universal panacea of the dreamless 20th-century idiot.
But out there universal things happen.
James Bond, Universal Exports.
It turns lying into a universal principle.
The universal machine.
No, the music you are hearing is not Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, which was used under the main title for four Universal horror films, beginning with Dracula in 1931, but this is an original score by Heinz Roemheld.
After his success in Frankenstein, and to a lesser extent, The Mask of Fu Manchu, on loan to MGM, and The Mummy, back at his home studio, Universal regarded him as a full-fledged star, and all along had planned for him to do The Invisible Man.
But the Great Depression had taken its toll on Universal, as well as most of the other studios, and they were in dire straits.
Then, in June, he encountered contract problems with Universal.
But Universal, by late 1931, was seriously considering the title as one of the follow-ups to their Dracula and Frankenstein.
Before coming to work at Universal, Fulton worked for the Frank Williams Laboratory in Hollywood. Where the travelling-matte system had evolved.
Most of the exteriors made were shot on the back lot at Universal.
Until Universal's The Invisible Man Returns in 1940, there was no attempt to deal with such spectacular invisibility effects in films.
Gloria Stuart was playing in The Seagull at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1932 when Phil Friedman, then Universal's casting director, saw her and asked her to make a test.
One day Universal's production chief, Carl Laemmle Junior, asked to see her.
John I Balderston, who had worked on the play versions of Dracula and Frankenstein, as well as the screenplay of Universal's The Mummy, wrote several drafts of the script based on Garrett Fort's adaptation of The Murderer Invisible.
Through the long gestation period, various directors were announced by Universal to do The Invisible Man.
Since HG Wells supposedly had script approval, it seems unlikely that Universal would send versions based on another novel but still titled The Invisible Man, not The Murderer Invisible.
The train setting is a miniature on a three-quarter-inch scale, created for this film by Charlie Baker and his miniature unit at Universal.
These inventions cry out for the goodness in man, cry out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.
Universal, this or that.
That vigilance means universal suspiciousness?
Of all melancholy topics, what, according to the universal understanding of mankind, is the most melancholy?
I just can't accept the idea of universal disease.
The Moroks reputation is universal.
The only reason that you as Guardian of the Solar System were admitted to the Universal Council were because of our superior knowledge of mineralogy.
A lust for more power than he already has universal power!
Universal suffrage.
The universal school.
We must therefore pay attention to that which we have in common, in other words, the universal.
Since language is universal, common to all. Whereas, although language is common to all.
By hell's universal harmony, we will be a civilisation!
News and current affairs
Preaching nationalism, its managers will believe in their universal competence, as opposed to KGB-style professionalism and corporatism.
Germany urgently needs this kind of optimism, because, unfortunately, two universal principles will continue to apply in the future: first, the winter will return, and, second, the ball is round and the next game is always the most difficult.
In societies that have been preparing themselves by opening their markets and embracing universal education, the disruptions of this revolution can probably be absorbed and handled.
These officers dismiss and mistrust the requirements of universal justice, as embodied in the Nuremberg rulings.
But if one thinks in terms of universal norms of human rights, what right has Turkey to dictate internal development in another country?
Are Human Rights Universal?
The fact is that a number of serious objections exist to the concept of universal human rights, which its defenders need to acknowledge - honestly - if only to refute them.
The first objection argues that all rights and values are defined and limited by cultural perceptions; there is no universal culture, therefore there are no universal human rights.
A number of developing countries - notably India, China, Chile, Cuba, Lebanon, and Panama - played an active and influential part in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Pinker argues that enhanced powers of reasoning give us the ability to detach ourselves from our immediate experience and from our personal or parochial perspective, and frame our ideas in more abstract, universal terms.
If football and its culminating moment, the World Cup, has become the universal religion of the global age, this is above all because it fulfills, in a non-spiritual way, contradictory instincts in human nature.
At the same time, during the World Cup, fans are not only universal; they are also unique, and they can express their difference with impunity, sometimes in the most assertive, aggressive, and, unfortunately, occasionally racist manner.
MELBOURNE - Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.
Our global future depends on bringing these individual talents and universal rights together in common cause.
We have a great revolutionary past that still conveys universal values - liberty, equality, fraternity - and an army that, as in Mali, continues to make a difference in the world.
A major reason for the accelerating growth in government debt is America's rapidly aging population and the resulting increase in the cost of the universal pension and health-care programs - Social Security and Medicare.
Indeed, opinion polls show that, despite near-universal awareness of the situation in Syria, there is very little public support for intervention.
We need people on both sides of the Vistula River to do their part to build a fair and ambitious universal climate agreement by 2015.
We have approached the point when the constitutional requirement of universal, free education may become a fiction.
Anyone who holds freedom of the press and freedom of expression to be universal human rights will agree with Friedman's position.
We are convinced that the concepts that Liu and his colleagues put down on paper in December 2008 are both universal and timeless.
It would also help to amplify within China the universal and humanistic values for which Liu has spent so much of his life fighting.
If Asian states are to play this role, they must do far more to address their own regional challenges and to promote a positive, universal set of norms.
NEW YORK - The most important contribution of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly 60 years ago, on December 10, 1948, was to assert a powerful idea: rights are universal.