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And many think that the expressivist idea advanced by the first goes to the heart of the matter, while thinking that concentrating on the directive or prescriptive use of moral language can at best be secondary.
Use of words like 'try'considerder' and 'may' to make the manual less directive and prescriptive, and deletion of phrases like 'instruct the carer'.
However, the agency traditionally has resisted what it regards as overly prescriptive language and has had some success in getting legislators to modify directives that NSF sees as misdirected or duplicative of existing efforts.
This act of issuing is called "the prescriptive command" (al-amr al-taklîfî), because it sets down principles and directives that need to be followed in order to discern the haqqs of things and act appropriately.
Commonly held values or views of a specific issue can be regarded as prescriptive, forming the basis of a code of conduct and justifying institutionalized obligations such as directives, laws and other regulations.
Women may not be gifted a rulebook on how to act in public with "don't dress like a slob, don't laugh ugly, don't eat pizza" directives, but the celebration of behaviour that dares to go against these unwritten rules is controlling and prescriptive in its own way.
Those shows are prescriptive.
The UK is lobbying for the changes to be part of a directive, which would give the government more flexibility about how it is adopted, rather than being contained in a more prescriptive internal market regulation.
They're not prescriptive.
They're too prescriptive.
They are prescriptive.
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