Sentence examples for quite prescriptive from inspiring English sources

The Mandatory Guidelines were seen as quite prescriptive [ 23].

Within FGDs, in contrast to expert IDIs, discussion around the theme of social relationships revealed quite prescriptive marital and filial relationships, with clear expectations around roles, and pleasure found for the elderly in the successful lives of their children and in their sense of connectedness to their communities and ancestors.

Alternatively, they may be quite specific and prescriptive, such as building codes.

But that's not quite the right prescriptive, says Carolyn Lukensmeyer, executive director of the National Institute for Civil Discourse at the University of Arizona.

But sustainability science is too often descriptive rather than prescriptive.

The policy was permissive rather than prescriptive.

I have made the point elsewhere that the acquisition of mitochondria was permissive rather than prescriptive: they enabled (from an energetic point of view) and potentially drove (from a mutational point of view) the evolution of quite a complex eukaryotic common ancestor, LECA.

Overly Anglocentric, highly prescriptive and quite dull is the thrust of their judgment.

Those are things that must be driven by industry because prescriptive policy mandates would quite likely have the unintended consequence of fossilizing cloud technologies while they are still in their early stages of development.

Instruction is not prescriptive, but rather exploratory.

Some of the items on the list, readers will notice, are quite open-ended, while others are more prescriptive.