Meanings of too prescriptive in English

He was too prescriptive, he didn't get the best out of his players.

The magazine is too prescriptive, they say, not modern enough for the MTV generation.

Others think it's too prescriptive, old-fashioned, too obsessed with exposing iniquity, and too narrow.

But she warned against regulators being too prescriptive.

It has been too prescriptive and has specified teaching method, which teachers should be free to decide.

They also argued that the English Baccalaureate measure was too prescriptive, and relevant only for the more academic students.

Sometimes they are too prescriptive.

The government has sensibly shied away from being too prescriptive about where public health directors should sit in the local authority hierarchy.

He considers the Press Code to be " too prescriptive" and "not open to the wild and woolly nature of satire".

Earlier on Thursday during a discussion at the Rockefeller event, Parsons cautioned about being too prescriptive in how executive pay packages are awarded.

He said the copy of the contract he'd seen was too prescriptive, and he warned against imposing public service standards on the voluntary sector.

But the concern with audiences has also given rise to the accusation that commissioners are too prescriptive when they are looking for new drama.

He says he believes in giving the soloist the opportunity to do what he feels is best, rather than being too prescriptive or autocratic.

- But ensure any role models are not too prescriptive or rigid in their approach.