Sentence examples for prescriptive style from inspiring English sources

In a world changed by immigration, and intolerant of the idea of an élite, many people felt that prescriptive style manuals were exclusionary, even cruel.

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.

Clinicians' consultation styles varied between open, tailored, two-way dialogues to a more prescriptive style.

Following prescriptive rally-style Tulip diagram directions, we pulled off on to a potholed gravel track and veered away from the main road.

His writing style is prescriptive and proscriptive — lots of advice about what to do and not do: "Reflect, Then Decide," "Underpromise and Overdeliver," "Be Your Own Man".

Or have workplace dress codes gone the way of 80s power suits and 90s dress-down Fridays; quietly phased out in favour of a less prescriptive approach to workplace style?

"Eats, Shoots & Leaves," which in the spectrum of such books is more playful than "The Elements of Style" and less prescriptive than The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, came out of a series Ms. Truss did on punctuation for Radio 4 some months ago.

It's a prescriptive right of way.

Generally, BW styles could match the prescriptive targets at the high frequencies, but they provided too much low-frequency gain at the same time; thus they usually failed to match the targets at low frequencies; in contrast, BTE and ITE styles could match the fitting targets at low frequencies, but they usually failed to provide sufficient amplification in the high frequencies.

"It is not a prescriptive diet in this case, more in style with the word 'diet' being your overall food intake for a day," Mr. Poetsch said.

Web services rely upon a rigorous set of standards, while ReST style services are simpler and less prescriptive.