Sentence examples for prescriptive language from inspiring English sources

It is refreshingly free of prescriptive language and judgment about a subject too often overwhelmed by people screaming past one another.

Moore says AAMC is also not happy with "prescriptive" language in the bill, such as a stipulation that NIH support 16,670 training grants.

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.

Most NGOs see the less prescriptive language around the contested and ill-defined "green economy" concept as something of a victory.

We also tallied prescriptive language, such as 'ought' and 'must'must

About 39% of the articles had some prescriptive language.

Nor did its presentational rubric depart from the prescriptive, commanding language common to its competitors ("It's cold. You need a coat. This is it," one coverline reads; try imagining it being spoken by a Dalek).

Although we try not to be too prescriptive because language evolves and you don't want to sound like you're from 1890 saying you can't start a sentence with a conjunction, because that's not true.

Was the dictionary to be prescriptive, showing how language should be used, or descriptive, reflecting how it actually was used?

The best thing about music is that bar lyrics—it exists outside the prescriptive confines of language.

In one way, though, Kline's bill is more prescriptive in its language explicitly mandating that teacher evaluations rely, in part, on students' test scores.