"Nature," recalling your generalisation about the diadelphous structure, and now explaining the exception of Coronilla.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

This is a generalisation which isn't very helpful as it stands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservative, essentialist] Reference

It affords opportunities for generalisation, which is the salt of conversation. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero] Reference

It's a crass generalisation which is comforting for people who have themselves cheated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chelsea Blog] Reference

Weekenders and (worse) holiday-homers are - and this is the kind of generalisation that made British journalism great.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph Blogs] Reference

We have, then, added a third term to our generalisation about art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personality in Literature] Reference

In other words the isolated facts are built up into a generalisation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

I simply can't see that there is any warrant for your generalisation.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Who did the extensive survey necessary to make this generalisation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

What generalisation - i.e. general statement - did I make about Alex?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Every scientific generalisation rests upon the constancy of natural forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference

They are the victims of that abstract generalisation of which I spoke at the outset.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cambridge Essays on Education] Reference

On top of that you're guilty of inductive generalisation with insufficient evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Childhood has no such power of generalisation and is not (to do it justice) so silly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surprised by Joy]

It is not a glib generalisation to fill the temporary demands of our election campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [A REALISTIC PROGRAMME FOR REAL JOBS] Reference

generalisation implies abstraction, but we may have abstraction without generalisation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deductive Logic] Reference

We arrive at this universal law by generalisation from many laws of inferior generality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

I find generalisations bald and misleading, and politics are a generalisation of events.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference

Gods imply a greater power of generalisation and a higher stage of religious development.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Art in Ancient Greece] Reference

The article, in which we can see a great generalisation struggling to be born, ends thus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference

Kantian ethics requires as the test of a moral precept that it be capable of generalisation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Jenkins: Fukuyama] Reference

Whilst I do not think that such a generalisation is valid, I do believe that we could do better.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

What they lack is the spirit of (scientific socialist) generalisation and revolutionary passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

I do not thoroughly admire your several papers and your admirable generalisation on birds 'nests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference

It strikes me as a capital generalisation, and appears to me even more original than it did at first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference

Agri SA president Lourie Bosman, who led evidence, said the generalisation of allegations had to stop.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

These observations exhibit, in their loftiest generalisation, the two counter doctrines on the subject of perception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

Minister Cronje said the recent generalisation regarding the bad financial affairs of the TBVC states was grossly unfair to.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The only generalisation that seems to apply is that periodic outbreaks of war are followed by a relapse into exhausted peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Jenkins: Commentators Are Having a Poor Middle East Conflict] Reference

A law implies that we know the nature of the generalisation and enactment; not merely that we have noticed some of the effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orthodoxy] Reference

Agri SA legal services director Annelize Crosby told the hearings many of the allegations against farmers were a generalisation.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

= A sweeping generalisation, which cannot be accepted as an interpretation of the doctrines of the sceptical philosopher of Elis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference

Returning to pure science, no phenomena in plant life are so extremely varied or have yet been more incapable of generalisation than the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference

By accepting the accuracy of this generalisation, and using it in every experiment, Lavoisier was able to form a clear mental picture of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference