Assertion: metric system | /r/ObjectUse | used in the united states
Facets:
value: universally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Several prominent Americans such as Thomas Jefferson and Graham Bell were particularly vocal in their desire to have the metric system universally used in the United States, stating that the American system involved complex arithmetic.
text: It is used in the United States, but it is not the standard system of measurement there.