Examples of universalism in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Yet race or colonial studies research departments don't exist in French universities, because they are seen as contrary to French universalism. — Arno Pedram, ajc, 21 Apr. 2022 What was distinctive about the BBC was its universalism and its intention to improve people’s lives. — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022 Publicly, this involved a rhetoric of universalism, the exaggerated spectre of vacant museums, and diversionary offers of developmental assistance. — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2022 But French universalism has become its own very specific particularism. — Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2021 That remains a valuable warning against the naive universalism in the idea that history is inexorably marching toward the triumph of U.S.-style democracy. — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 20 Oct. 2021 The occasion was political, of course, coming in an election season and at a moment when French people of color are questioning the disjuncture between the national creed of universalism and their experiences of racial discrimination. — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2021 The French establishment sees laïcité as a core proposition of universalism and of the république—a way of preventing social fracture. — Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2021 The watchword is universalism, referring to an abstract notion of citizenship to which all must subscribe. — Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2021 See More

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