The phrase "a certain branch of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific area or field of study, activity, or interest without naming it directly.
Example: "In a certain branch of science, researchers are exploring new methods for renewable energy."
Alternatives: "a specific area of" or "a particular field of".
But in the 1990s, I was part of a certain branch of fundamentalism that flourished among Christian homeschoolers.
Its aim is a more fundamental one: to eliminate a certain branch of liability altogether and thereby deny the predicate for applying any remedial rule at all.
A certain branch of independent rock got slower and heavier and louder all because of the Melvins, who have been together since 1982.
But to do so, researchers must be able to hold an independent mirror to the entire public education system, pursuing an agenda of serving public interest, not one that benefits a certain branch of government or a specific education agency.
Sometimes, as is suspected in the case of Georgia, the moves were a deliberate political ploy to weaken one region of the country, a certain branch of government or the political opposition.
"Display is a certain branch of show business and theater and storytelling," Mr. Hoey said as he and Ms. Fargo flipped through a copy of "Windows" in a conference room deep inside Bergdorf on a recent afternoon.
Choice of a certain branch depends upon the outcome of the test.
For reasons of clarity, exterior walls are not included in the tree in Figure 4b, since they always lead to the termination of a certain branch.
To list a few, certain branches of computer sciences, engineering and economics are well-known examples in which fixed point theory is used.
The algorithm generates a search tree, certain branches of which may not terminate.
To identify categories with bimodal properties (such as a categories with a loss or a large expansion on only certain branches of the phylogenetic tree), we clustered each profile into two groups and looked for the pathways with the greatest separation between the two clusters.
