The phrase "a widespread principle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a principle that is commonly accepted or applied across various contexts or situations.
Example: "The idea of equality is a widespread principle that underpins many democratic societies."
Alternatives: "a common principle" or "a prevalent principle".
A picture is beginning to emerge of chromatin loops representing a widespread organizing principle of the chromatin fiber and the proteins cohesin and CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) as key players anchoring such chromatin loops.
The advocates of artist's rights to free and fair expression -- especially those attuned to such widespread principles as irony, catharsis, and sublimation, and so adeptly applied by Kathryn Bigelow in ZDT -- aren't likely to follow you into summoning to mind the blacklisting of the 1950s.
This contradicts a widespread gene design principle that mimicking the codon bias of the host or of a selected group of host genes will ensure protein expression [6], [26].
Although these are only initial examples, the general finding that DNA methylation occurs at multiple sites over a localised region strongly argues that this instructive model of DNA methylation is a widespread, and perhaps universal, principle in cancer biology.
The razing of Penn Station led to the passage of the Landmarks Preservation Act, and to a widespread consensus about the principles or premises supporting urbanism.
When I was a kid, I had one of these things -- I've been playing this for a long time -- and I took one apart with the great physicist Richard Feynman, a long time ago, just to try to test the hypothesis about precisely how it works because there's a widespread belief of what the physical principle is that allows this to work, and it turns out not to be true.
Among interviewees there was a widespread commitment to the cross-cutting principle – that departments should work together to promote health and well-being.
Yet spelling out these principles clearly met a widespread need.
The result has been not simply an abundance of technical terms and rules, but a widespread belief that literature's governing principles can be located outside literature.
We could demonstrate for the first time that metacontrol is a widespread phenomenon that also exists in birds, and thus in principle requires no corpus callosum.
