Sentence examples for prescriptive of from inspiring English sources

He was also very prescriptive of how I should look and dress etc.

The physicochemistry of molecules can often indicate which molecules not to make, but is less prescriptive of what should be synthesised.

And yet, the nomadic enculturation to which I refer is posed not as a corrective of the art it discusses, nor is it prescriptive of a better method or model.

The framework described by Jones et al. (2010) is not prescriptive of a particular approach to assessing the evidence.

The proposed framework is not prescriptive of a sole way of assessing CoPKM by looking at all the dimensions proposed.

Nursing managers also complained that clinic supervisors had a top-down approach to supervision and were prescriptive of what needed to be done in the clinics.

By the same token, the meta-prescriptives of science, its rules, are themselves objects of invention and experimentation for the sake of producing new statements.

Christian Schlötterer, an evolutionary biologist at the Veterinary University of Vienna, says that the course gave him a new insight into the disadvantages of a prescriptive style of supervision compared to what he describes as an "active listening" approach.

The combined strategy used in this study improved the prescriptive compliance of most of the GPs involved.

The approach taken to defining the standard of comparison for both descriptive and prescriptive assertions of the concept of equality is very important (Oppenheim 1970).

When the first Kinsey book was published, Lionel Trilling wrote that Kinsey's replacement of the old, prescriptive standard of "normal" with the new, descriptive notion of "natural" liberated a nation.