Sentence examples for prescriptive rules from inspiring English sources

But overly prescriptive rules that fossilise the internet in its current form could indeed hamper innovation.

But Lowell's president, Norm Deschene, worries that the governor's prescriptive rules will thwart his efforts.

America relies less on broad principles than on detailed and prescriptive rules.

He adds: "Prescriptive rules are among the least interesting things about language".

This is about moving from the failed approach of complex, prescriptive rules to one based on judgment.

Unfortunately, given the mix of institutions and prescriptive rules established by the Maastricht Treaty, this is very difficult.

Among Patterson, Fosse, and their peers, the tendency to write as if black culture were in exceptional crisis seems to be what a sociologist might call an unexamined injunctive norm: a shared prescriptive rule, one so ingrained that its followers don't even realize it exists.

The AMOC was non-compliant because it exceeded the flight time limits in the prescriptive rule.

The results presented in this paper have the potential for inclusion in the prescriptive code rules for rational fire engineering based designs.

The generic technique that is developed is shown to agree with solutions obtained from the finite element method, and it provides a structural model for the dynamic response of bi-material composite members with the potential for inclusion in prescriptive code rules.

In 1862, when prescriptive grammar ruled, Thoreau wrote: "When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly … I think – Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it".