Sentence examples for cannot be prescriptive from inspiring English sources

This mélange cannot be prescriptive, for its elements are many.

"I'm keenly aware that my opinions on what makes something funny cannot be prescriptive because comedy is such a subjective matter," he says.

"We learned in 1993 and 1994 that you cannot be prescriptive," said Gail Warden, president of the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, who was chairman of the panel that wrote the report.

Cell culture conditions are often optimized for the variety of viruses and experiments performed in a laboratory as well as for the availability of reagents and thus cannot be prescriptive.

Don't be prescriptive.

We don't want to be prescriptive".

This list is not meant to be prescriptive.

"We would have to be prescriptive," he said.

The Högskoleverket doesn't want to be prescriptive.

Everyone desperately wants social media success to be prescriptive.

Botero said the index is not intended to be prescriptive.