Sentence examples for has become prescriptive from inspiring English sources

The tax code in America has become prescriptive: by creating tax breaks for "desired behavior" like getting married, procreating, giving to charity and buying houses, it creates a system of rewards and punishments for social behavior that the government should have no business creating.

The modern Caucasian ideal of beauty has been packaged and exported to the rest of the world, and just as surgical operations to "westernise" oriental eyes have become increasingly popular, so the beauty standard has become increasingly prescriptive.

Fashion, let's face it, has become so prescriptive that any red-carpet event these days is rather dull and predictable (with the possible exception of Tilda Swinton) in terms of what everybody wears.

As international law has developed, respecting the sovereignty of other nations has become an important governing principle in limiting prescriptive jurisdiction and preventing overreaching.

As well as playing a prescriptive role, norms and values in GHG has become the subject of growing scholarship.

The cars are a combination of fairly prescriptive regulations that have become more prescriptive every year for six seasons.

Existing regulations, it said, had become too prescriptive, too costly and too cumbersome.

Likewise, network analyses have become popular as prescriptive tools in management consulting (e.g. Anklam 2007).

That law had become unpopular because of its emphasis on testing and prescriptive mandates, though it is still widely praised for unmasking the nation's achievement gaps, particularly for black, poor and special education students.

Performance-based building requirements have become more prevalent because it gives freedom in building design while still maintaining or exceeding the energy performance required by prescriptive-based requirements.

It's all too easy for clear and consistent to become prescriptive and dogmatic – not to mention unrealistic.