Despite his years, or perhaps because of them, old Blade still commanded universal respect from the guardsmen.

The successes, often, have been the work of the one government institution in India that has almost universal respect for its efficiency, the army.

Richard has the universal respect of everyone in the film community.

Not that the donations or Dell's status as the area's largest private employer, with a work force of about 15,000, buy universal respect.

Various selections have been made by press and supporters but none has achieved universal respect.

Yet he has never won universal respect as an accurate outside shooter.

He was remembered as a judge whose decisions commanded universal respect.

He has never enjoyed the universal respect of the religious establishment or public adulation.

The same applies to universal respect for human rights.

He was, as everyone here will know, someone regarded with universal respect and affection that crossed the political divide.