Sentence examples for prescriptive lists from inspiring English sources

I dislike prescriptive lists so here are five suggestions and hopefully we can share further ideas in the discussion below.

But isn't this the education secretary who, in speaking of the history syllabus, insisted that he was not going to come up with any prescriptive lists?

He's a man who likes his complete, detailed, prescriptive lists, and his quasi-mystical aphorisms can leave a modern reader scratching his head.

Why limit the prescriptive list to just five minds?

The focus is too often on how to comply with an overly prescriptive list, rather than choose the structure and processes that help create long-term value," says the report, NEDs - Monitors to Partners.

An important challenge in practice is to steer a course between an overly prescriptive listing of desirable capabilities by, say, academic philosophers and an overly subjective listing that might be prone to problems such as adaptive preferences (for helpful discussions, see Robeyns 2005, 2006, and Wolff and De-Shalit 2007).

In Airbnb's case, this takes the form of a prescriptive list of policy recommendations, as well as a firm bottom line of what the company feels is ultimately disruptive to its users, and, in many cases, the self-interest of local municipalities themselves.

16 17 However, a key feature of the AE approach is its 'open architecture' in preference to a discrete and prescriptive list of 'AEs' for all or even specific care settings.

This is not intended to be a prescriptive list that would limit future investigators' novel approaches, but rather a methodologic feature that would permit future evaluations by scientists and regulators.

Dame Clare wants to cut to 17 the over-prescriptive list of 69 skills that nursery staff and childminders must impart to their charges before they toddle off to school.

I would only reference music on the page if it served some narrative function: like the carefully prescriptive, indexed lists of song titles and artist names in Morvern Callar, which enforced Morvern's methodical approach to life – and to death; here the individual timbres of the songs seemed appropriate to the mood of the drama.