The word "generalise" is correct and is commonly used in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where you are talking about a group in general, without considering every individual, or when you are talking about a concept or idea that is true in general but not for every single case. For example: "It is often difficult to apply a generalised solution to every individual case."
You'd have to be pretty naive to say a gamekeeper has never killed a bird of prey but to generalise and say, 'It's gamekeepers' is simply not fair".
Of the recent hit and miss rate of US adaptations, Pursey says: "It's very hard to generalise, but the remakes that have worked have taken on a life of their own.
But I don't want to generalise and say that working-class actors can never do well.
To generalise broadly across a wide range of property and economies, the mismatch between investors' enthusiasm and the caution of occupiers has rarely seemed bigger.
But the fee may have little to do with the growth in recycling, as many citizens were already participating in Charlottesville's voluntary recycling scheme.It would be foolish to generalise from this one case, but the moral is clear: economic incentives sometimes produce unforeseen responses.
Japan's penal code does not apply statutory rape to a person over 13.A problem with Mr West's book is that he tends to generalise on contemporary life from what are clearly extreme cases, or from rulings that are 30 or so years old.
Furthermore, the relevant reference applies only for Morocco and it cites as its source an earlier paper that the PBL says no one, including the IPCC authors, now seems able to find.Other criticisms turn on a tendency to generalise.
Although it is harder to generalise about Western Europe, confidence in political institutions is in decline in most countries.
But these days, even the people who use Maudoodi's terminology are investing it with new meanings, Mr Hartung says.It's hard to generalise about the ways in which followers of Maudoodi's vision of an Islamic state have evolved.
"The shocking truth is that the opportunities to generalise are very limited.
Beyond the excitement, however, the right question to ask is whether any of the mergers will make long-term sense.To generalise is, naturally, hazardous: each merger deserves scrutiny on its own merits.
