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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
universalize .
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These principles date back to Greco-Roman times, were developed by English common law beginning in 1215 with the Magna Carta, and were universalized by the Enlightenment in the century before the American Constitution and Bill of Rights were fought for and adopted as the supreme law of the land.
Jim Garrison: Obama's Most Fateful Decision Jim Garrison 2011
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Liberty is most certainly a good, but when it is universalized it destroys itself.
Tim Suttle: The Irony Of The Tea Party Tim Suttle 2011
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Jesus, too, challenged the religious authorities of his time, insisted on deemphasizing dogmatic practices and redirecting faith towards a moral core of compassion, love, and forgiveness "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone", and universalized that message so it is no longer tribal, earning even the respect of hardline atheists like Richard Dawkins.
Omar Baddar: God's Progressive Prophets Omar Baddar 2011
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Rather in the relationship of the Scriptures of the Mosaic covenant and of the New Testament there is revealed a common salvation history, within which 'the Jewish people remains God's chosen people', a people whose covenant is confirmed, surpassed and universalized by Jesus Christ (Walter Kasper, Where the Heart of Faith Beats: the Experience of My Life, Freiburg 2008, pp294f).
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The religion of Modernity, they say, must be universalized to encompass all corners of humanity.
Nathan Gardels: Eric X. Li: A New China Looks at the West Nathan Gardels 2011
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They universalized that concept to allow people to understand that personal suffering was transient.
Yursil Kidwai: Time Square Bomber: Theological Confusion & Hypocrisy in Action Yursil Kidwai 2010
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With her Oscar-nominated film Europa Europa, Holland universalized the Holocaust by presenting it through the eyes of Jewish teenager named Salomon Perel Marco Hofschneider, who survived the war by passing for an ethnic German.
Dan Lybarger: The Ruins Were My Playground: Agneiszka Holland on In Darkness Dan Lybarger 2012
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With her Oscar-nominated film Europa Europa, Holland universalized the Holocaust by presenting it through the eyes of Jewish teenager named Salomon Perel Marco Hofschneider, who survived the war by passing for an ethnic German.
Dan Lybarger: The Ruins Were My Playground: Agneiszka Holland on In Darkness Dan Lybarger 2012
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They universalized that concept to allow people to understand that personal suffering was transient.
Yursil Kidwai: Time Square Bomber: Theological Confusion & Hypocrisy in Action Yursil Kidwai 2010
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The religion of Modernity, they say, must be universalized to encompass all corners of humanity.
Nathan Gardels: Eric X. Li: A New China Looks at the West Nathan Gardels 2011
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