The phrase "a general recognition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a widespread acknowledgment or acceptance of something within a particular context or community.
Example: "There is a general recognition among experts that climate change is a pressing issue that requires immediate action."
Alternatives: "a widespread acknowledgment" or "a common understanding".
There is a general recognition that the ethics environment is changing and international generated guidelines [ 7] and standards, such as those developed by the European Union, are one of several influences on this process of change.
In spite of a general recognition of the quality of their instruction, Brazilian diplomats are still generally critical of the idea that freer trade is intrinsically good for the country.
"There's a general recognition of the transcendent role that writers have had in forging our society".
"There is a general recognition we should be getting on with the exploration phase," he said.
He claimed that the ruling was an indication of a general recognition that the Procuracy had "gone too far".
This has been a cracking game and there's a general recognition that neither side deserves to lose.
For its first couple of months, the Poetry Society went by the name of the Poetry Recital Society, with aims "to promote a more general recognition and appreciation of poetry by encouraging the public and private reading of it and developing the art of speaking verse".
"In many markets around the region, change must begin with a better understanding, on the part of governments, of the specific challenges facing Internet businesses, and a more general recognition of the growth opportunity that online commerce represents," the authors write.
We do not know whether the learned recognition and generalization we documented represents recognition of predators or non-predators per se, or whether it represents a more general recognition of dangerous versus safe cues.
Father's Day got a significant boost, and a final push toward general recognition, in the early thirties, when the Associated Men's Wear Retailers, a New York trade group, formed a Father's Day Committee and débuted a new slogan, "Give Dad Something to Wear".
He searched for the philosophical foundation of what he first and rather vaguely summarized as the "sciences of man, of society, and the state," which he later called Geisteswissenschaften ("human sciences")—a term that eventually gained general recognition to collectively denote the fields of history, philosophy, religion, psychology, art, literature, law, politics, and economics.
