The phrase "a general declaration" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a broad statement or announcement that applies to a wide range of situations or subjects.
Example: "The committee issued a general declaration regarding the new policies that would affect all employees."
Alternatives: "a broad statement" or "a universal announcement".
But he and many participants said there was a decent chance that a general declaration of success was within reach by Saturday morning.
"No doubt the thing was popular in some quarters, and would have been more so if it had been a general declaration of emancipation," he wrote when defending his approach to Illinois Senator Orville Browning, his friend and political supporter.
In an effort to gather the assets of the defunct Mission companies, the Commissioner filed the instant action against respondent Allstate Insurance Company in state court, seeking contract and tort damages for Allstate's alleged breach of certain reinsurance agreements, as well as a general declaration of Allstate's obligations under those agreements.
In construing the Fifth Amendment and its privilege against self-incrimination, one must keep in mind its essential quality as a restraint upon compulsion of testimony by the newly organized Federal Government at which the Bill of Rights was directed, and not as a general declaration of policy against compelling testimony.
Walker comments that the "essential character of the Cyrus Cylinder [is not] a general declaration of human rights or religious toleration but simply a building inscription, in the Babylonian and Assyrian tradition, commemorating Cyrus's restoration of the city of Babylon and the worship of Marduk previously neglected by Nabonidus".
And if duties of any kind may be laid without a violation of that liberty, it is evident that the extent must depend on legislative discretion, regulated by public opinion; so that after all, general declarations respecting the liberty of the press will give it no greater security than it will have without them.
The two powers would be asked to invoke the fourth item of the general declaration of the Geneva agreement in which the 14 parties pledged to con sult each other if the neutrality of Laos was violated.
And the general declaration that women hold unique "skills and talents" and are "gifted with a purpose" is exactly the kind of logic that regulated women to second-class status for thousands of years.
(Key Informant 6) Despite the lack of designated POEs for implementation of IHR (2005), health workers at JNIA reported that JNIA had provisions for the application of IHR (2005) documents, for example, the International Certificate of Vaccination or prophylaxis and Aircraft General Declaration.
Following ECA and City of Pontiac, the Court found that Cigna's statements in its Code of Ethics were "a textbook example of 'puffery.'" According to the court, they amounted to "general declarations about the importance of acting lawfully and with integrity" on which no reasonable stockholder would rely.
"We want something that goes beyond general declarations".
