"is more general" is a perfectly acceptable phrase to use in written English.
For example: "This general principle is more general than the specifics of the situation."
Quantiles is more general.
This trend is more general.
This assumption is more general and reflects the practical situations.
But no matter, Mr Krauthammer's real complaint is more general.
Our method includes the "endpoint subtraction" ideas of Lanczos and Krylov, but is more general.
The method is inspired by hardware-oriented approaches with their component libraries, but is more general.
The thermal model reported here is more general than that previously reported.
A strategy is more general than a prestrategy and, in fact, every prestrategy is a strategy.
The proposed framework is more general and can be easily extended to existing deblurring methods.
The ideal Two-Fluid model is more general than the often used magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model.
Hence, the proposed delay-dependent switching law is more general and applicable.
