The phrase "a broad guideline" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a general principle or rule that provides direction without being overly specific.
Example: "The company has established a broad guideline for employee conduct that encourages professionalism and respect in the workplace."
Alternatives: "a general guideline" or "a wide-ranging guideline".
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a broad guideline in 2009 — distributed within the agency but never made public — to be cautious about pushing for hefty penalties from banks that had received bailout money.
This paper reviews the housing delivery system and the problems associated with the housing delivery system in Delhi and presents a broad guideline for policy makers to improve the housing delivery system in Delhi.
As a broad guideline, I recommend that you add 1% in equities for every year youre under age 57; add 1% in equities for every $200,000 in your portfolio value above $1 million; and subtract 1% from your stocks for every year over age 70; then add an additional 2% for every year over 80. Special Offer: Give more money to yourself, not to fund managers.
It's best to use these numbers as a broad guideline, to what you can expect, rather than a precise estimate.
To better ascertain the safety of such anemia, each patient deserves a comprehensive physiological assessment to chart their clinical management strategy, and not simply processed along a broad guideline strategy, as was in fact required by the tenets of this randomized trial.
This may be achieved in different ways, for instance, incorporation of the CPR as part of a broader guideline implementation and embedding the CPR into clinical software or a computerised clinical decision support system (CDSS) [ 10, 11].
By following a few broad guidelines, you can make a spring soup from just about any vegetable you choose from the farm stall or pluck from the garden.
Before we get to the specifics, a few broad guidelines about trophy-property shopping emerged from this exercise.
AMIT SARKAR Scarsdale, N.Y., Dec. 14, 2008 Does your "broad guideline" — "if it looks as if it was intended to sow terror and it shocks the conscience" — include the acts of Israelis, which often fit that definition?
While the number of specific best practices in designing surveys is lengthy and technical, one broad guideline can be particularly helpful: Surveys should resemble conversations.
But I fear we have a president who is setting the broad guidelines, above a squabbling bureaucracy and a divided alliance -- and no one is cracking heads.
