The growth of government is a general phenomenon of Western nations since 1945.

A related and more general phenomenon is that of subjective validation.

It is a general phenomenon found in most polycrystalline metals.

Koiné Greek, the language that has given name to the general phenomenon.

Just an aspect of a far more general phenomenon.

But what exactly makes these people part of a "general phenomenon" for which there can be a single explanation?

He asks whether a general phenomenon would cease to be a feature of a society if particular individuals held different beliefs.

And he concludes that, since it would not, the individual beliefs cannot be the explanation of the general phenomenon.

Propaganda has long been recognized as a general phenomenon in the modern world.

The rest is an analysis of what I consider to be a regrettable general phenomenon.