Sentence examples for prescriptive regime from inspiring English sources

Traditionally, diets have been a very formulaic means to an end: buy the latest diet bestseller, follow a highly prescriptive regime designed to maximize self-loathing and minimize calories, and lose weight.

"He knows clearly that if he returns to the prison system the likelihood is he will be in a high secure prison, that it will be a much more prescriptive regime and, as he put it, he could be there … for the duration.

Long-term compliance to prescriptive regimes may also be more likely when participants enter a programme with more adverse health parameters.

Various studies have shown that patients with established disease are able to maintain high levels of adherence to intensive and prescriptive regimes.

A spokeswoman for Nopsema told the Guardian that it had a "non-prescriptive" regime, where the regulator relied on the operator to produce a "safety case" that ensured that risks were reduced to a level that was "as low as reasonably practicable".

The 'Regulator's Dilemma' is explained, particularly in non-prescriptive regimes.

Crucial was Richardson's judgment that a main attraction of the City internationally was its participative and interactive – rather than prescriptive – supervisory regime.

There are many studies on prescriptive exercise regimes but the interventions were aimed at studying bone density in response to exercise interventions, not physical activity uptake behaviour.

My book was aiming to be descriptive rather than prescriptive; to describe how history has alternated between tight money regimes (favoured by creditors) and loose regimes (favoured by debtors).

There are primarily two approaches of the offshore oil/gas industry's regulatory regime; while the United States' regulatory system is the more prescriptive-based, the United Kingdom's approach is performance-based.

The roles of social scientists in such projects "are often limited to narrow, prescriptive positions that have been entrenched through funding arrangements, disciplinary and institutional boundaries, governance regimes and local politics" (Ibid).