Examples include BlackBerry's support for a physical keyboard as embodied in the more classically BlackBerry (and more universally pronounced) Q10, strong enterprise management and the ability to turn the phone off at a given time.

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As money managers and individual investors become more universally skilled, the distance between the best investor and the average investor shrinks.

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And we are thanking them with our dollars every day for making wine more accessible and universally palatable.

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But sport tends to be more universally practiced and, consequently, is more commonly encountered in admissions situations so that is why I will reflect upon its importance here more than the others.

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Raymie and I collaborated on a presentation within Yahoo which was universally well received, and I believe that presentation became more than the sum of its parts due primarily to his participation and perspective.

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Unlike the Bund of the late 19th and early 20th Century, which had a reputation for exclusivity, modern developments have made the historic waterfront more universally accessible, opening the area to a wider demographic and providing a natural centre to a modern city.

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To paraphrase the English wit, Samuel Johnson, who described second marriages as "the triumph of hope over experience, " it was absolutely predictable that prohibitions imposed by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and the 1989 Chemical Weapons Convention would be no more successful in creating universally binding international "norms" than was the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, which was supposed to ban all war.

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Some modern-day designers are doing the same thing, building brand identities around their names and personalities (or personas), which stand for much more than slim-cut suits or universally flattering wrap dresses (no offense to Hedi Slimane or Diane von Furstenberg).

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