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n. (plural of universal value English)
Usage examples of "universal values".
Against this backdrop, events play out in Hiaasen's novels and columns, the moral landscape making almost tangible certain basic and universal values: we should be loyal to our friends, behave with civility and decency, earn our paychecks honestly, experience shame if we steal, preserve the world for our children, and never surrendereither our belief in these values, or to anyone who would violate them for personal gain.
Against this backdrop, events play out in Hiaasen's novels and columns, the moral landscape making almost tangible certain basic and universal values: we should be loyal to our friends, behave with civility and decency, earn our paychecks honestly, experience shame if we steal, preserve the world for our children, and never surrender&mdash.
He is unwilling to set up himself and his cruder feelings as a measure of universal values, or to allow shallow ethical notions to warp his judgment.
The debate between the Yielders and the Preservationists contains echoes of issues that divide our world--tensions between development and conservation, and between intercultural respect and universal values.