Sentence examples for rather prescriptive from inspiring English sources

But even after several years of education, accountants require an apprenticeship, especially if they are to get to grips with international standards based on intellectually demanding principles rather prescriptive rules.

This rather prescriptive approach has contributed to pharmaceutical companies being reluctant to change their manufacturing processes and equipment from time to time from a continuous improvement perspective.

At the time the bill was described as enabling rather than prescriptive.

Perhaps because "This Time Is Different" is empirical rather than prescriptive, it has defied categorization.

– before producing an 81-page report (pdf) of "illustrative rather than prescriptive" recommendations.

The changes sought to make the text descriptive, rather than prescriptive.

After carefully studying the booklet, though, I realized that it was descriptive rather than prescriptive.

Essentially, it is down to the attitudes of the local people, open-minded and accepting rather than prescriptive.

"If the legislation were permissive rather than prescriptive, I cannot think of any plausible reason why a Conservative should object".

What has replaced it is something far more fluid – descriptive rather than prescriptive, as the terminology goes.

It's more how they animate the speculative capacity, how you create something which is suggestive rather than prescriptive.