The phrase "a general propensity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a common tendency or inclination towards a particular behavior or characteristic.
Example: "There is a general propensity among teenagers to seek independence from their parents."
Alternatives: "a common tendency" or "a general inclination".
Prevarication about sex does not by itself prove a general propensity to lie.
The state's highest court also said this difficulty need not be a sexual compulsion but could be a general propensity for violence resulting from a mental disorder.
Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that both problem gambling and general gambling involvement loaded on single factors with other measures of risk, suggesting that gambling represents one expression of a general propensity for risk-taking.
This could suggest that those participants who have a general propensity for experiencing positive affect showed a heightened negative response to more unexpected loss feedback.
The intellect was described as a general (innate) propensity made up of a series of more specific (equally innate) propensities, the number of which was a function of the number of different things the intellect is able to know: "The intellective power is a general propensity with respect to all intelligibles, that is, with respect to the actual conforming to all intelligibles.
There's a general propensity amongst people to want to improve their own lives and the lives of their own families, and if you leave people to themselves, if you don't put barriers in their lives, they are likely going to prosper.
And that s, even when statistically controlling for a more general propensity to engage in problem behavior.
This study had information on confounding factors considered relevant in a risk assessment perspective, thus enabling adjustment for different behavioural variables most likely not linked to mental retardation per se, but, instead, indicating a more general propensity towards anti-social behaviour/attitudes due to other conditions or circumstances.
Note that to account for possible differences in the availability of time or general propensity to have an active life, we also have a control for whether an individual reports having gone to a sport, social or other kind of club, and in both samples, we find a strong, positive association between voluntary work and engagement in this other type of social activity.
Entropy is a convenient term for designation of general propensity of the real systems to move to more probable state, to chaos.
Perhaps the elevated T-SCEs observed in ALT cells is symptomatic of a general heightened propensity towards recombination, but is not the cause of telomere lengthening.
