However, variations in manifest behavior can result from universal mechanisms interacting with different local environments.

Schimmel's laboratory discovered a universal mechanism for correcting errors in the translation (mistranslation) of the genetic material.

I need a simple, practical, universal mechanism to make procreation responsible.

Later universal mechanisms, first used on the Apple II to accommodate proprietary signals, required special cables to isolate the speed signal from the Mac, to prevent damage to the drive.

Von Neumann, who worked on both the hydrogen bomb and on early computers, and Einstein must have provided some universal fail-safe mechanism, he reasoned.

Thus was born the United Nations, which has served as a universal mechanism ensuring world peace and security.

But just as everything seemed to be hanging together for establishing a universal mechanism of aging, two of the elements fell apart.

The primary universal mechanism is photothermal, based on the heating effect of the light and the consequent expansion of the light-absorbing material.

Homologous recombination is conserved across all three domains of life as well as viruses, suggesting that it is a nearly universal biological mechanism.

Individually, each Proemial God became a caretaker of a specific universal mechanism, with Aegis of All Sorrows being tasked with "culling the living universe of divergences and aberrations."