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However, it can go too far in the proscriptive direction.

In civil law countries the law is generally more proscriptive.

These are not just proscriptive laws, as the goyim imagine.

We're not going to be too proscriptive because we want to keep that sense of the unknown and people mastering things for themselves.

"You'll get a slightly proscriptive sense of government when you look at 'Walden.'

Attitudes on drug addiction started to change, resulting in the Harrison Act, which eventually became proscriptive.

McDermid doesn't fall into the proscriptive language of would-be censors and editorial writers.

But can we really dismiss Deutsch's proscriptive view of our biological masochism, strange as it is?

Yes, after 1788 there was a national council of sorts, but it met irregularly and at the time had no prescriptive or proscriptive powers.

Modern editions of standards are proscriptive, only indicating that the insulation system must provide acceptable life at the specified temperature rise.

In other circumstances they delineate the parameters of acceptable belief and practice in proscriptive fashion.

The hope is that Bahrain will not be excessively proscriptive in the type of cover it requires, and who sells it.

It needs to be made clear I am not talking about being proscriptive but with all the caveats, yes, I would rather."

Proscriptive norms, in contrast, comprise the other end of the same spectrum; they are similarly society's unwritten rules about what one should not do.

Therefore, the Naikaku Johōkyokus activities were proscriptive as well as prescriptive.

The texts, far from being captions, slide from descriptive to self-analytical to proscriptive with remarkable ease.

When did these crucial words become so ponderous and proscriptive, such occasions for narrow pride and self-aggrandizing prejudice?

Far from being proscriptive, it widened the range of what could be considered music and of how music could be made.

Proscriptive "Ladder Approach"

NRT is not a proscriptive model, in that it does not outline how the therapy is to be conducted.

We are descriptive of the usages we accept and prescriptive-perhaps proscriptive would be more descriptive-of those we do not like.

The Government readily investigated and took proscriptive action against purveyors of radical Islam or "deviationist" Islamic groups.

Such information is not prescriptive or proscriptive, it is descriptive of certain attitudes-right or wrong-about the language and has its proper place in a dictionary.

Potentially threatening and disruptive persons for whom bollard applications are proscriptive by announcing their behavior is anticipated, and that additional levels of security await them.

Our responses cannot help but be infiltrated with our own cultural and personal beliefs and the proscriptive conclusions we draw from them - in other words, advice.