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14 examples of Universalist in a sentence

In recent years, such an approach ran counter to America’s foreign-policy predisposition of favouring universalist doctrines over a careful balancing of national interests.
Never meant to be confined to the European continent, it was, like Christianity itself, a universalist aspiration.
We are thus faced with a dramatic contradiction between universalist aspirations and an unwillingness to pay the price these aspirations demand.
Western peoples have not always lived up to their universalist ideals, but they have in modern times built institutions designed to implement them, in Europe and beyond.
The notion of “Asian values,” promoted mostly by Singaporean official scribes, was partly a critique of universalist Western claims.
As the economists Amartya Sen and Sudhir Anand argued more than a decade ago, “It would be a gross violation of the universalist principle if we were to be obsessed about intergenerational equity without at the same time seizing the problem of intragenerational equity.”
After ignoring the universalist principle for too long, world leaders finally seem to be acknowledging the magnitude of the problem – as well as their responsibilities to people far beyond their immediate electoral constituencies.
That denomination’s elasticity and inclusiveness – known in-house as “audacious hospitality” – made its adherents natural allies of a president with a universalist worldview.
And it was driven by universalist ideas that motivated people to support and defend democracy.
Suddenly faced with the need to invent a new, equally inclusive, equally universalist ideology, the left proved unequal to the task.
But, it is worth remembering that even as they established a Jewish nation-state, David Ben-Gurion and most of Israel’s founders were similarly committed to a cosmopolitan and universalist vision based on “complete equality of social and political rights … irrespective of religion, race, or sex.”
For example, in the 2017 French presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon of La France Insoumise abandoned his typically universalist, class-centered rhetoric and adopted the language of “the people.”
This universalist approach underpinned the West’s condescending, patronizing, and contemptuous view of China.
For him, the real story was not just the economic aftereffects of a pandemic, but the mysticism, irrationalism, and xenophobia that eventually brought an end to a universalist culture.