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In September the Party issued a new Code of Conduct for Religious Clergy on the Internet that is highly proscriptive.

But the prohibitive costs and proscriptive laws sometimes mean there’s no choice at all.

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Viewed this way, minding our p’s and q’s is less about proscriptive notions of correctness, and more about mindfulness, self-discovery and proper conduct.

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But it’s to Leaf’s credit that there’s nothing simplistic, and certainly nothing proscriptive, about how that closure takes place.

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But the move toward zero-emission vehicles represents a significant and aggressive step toward cutting greenhouse gases in the state — a step that one Washington Republican criticized as overly proscriptive.

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