Sentence examples for To prescriptive from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.
Both Hindu and Buddhist art were produced according to prescriptive formulas.
Her father became an alcoholic, addicted to prescriptive drugs, chronically adulterous and so violent that divorce was inevitable.
Ensler is in good company, for if the new feminist movements have one thing in common, it's an aversion to prescriptive ideological programmes.
John Rosenthal (On Language, Aug. 18) is correct in attributing the defense of "It is I" to prescriptive linguists, but he's off base with "Whom shall I say is calling?" That unfortunate locution has been put into the mouths of scores of butlers by writers who are neither prescriptivist nor descriptivist; they are simply wrong.
As opposed to prescriptive criteria requirements based on risk analysis offer many advantages.
He begins by pointing out that the word 'law' is ambiguous: it can refer to descriptive or to prescriptive laws.
So it would be wrong to be prescriptive to any individual writer about what they are writing.
Five years ago she transferred to Prescriptives.
The recommendations are not intended to be prescriptive but to help researchers to make decisions.
This method is not intended to be prescriptive, but to provide a simple model for tailoring content to the unique educational models that exist throughout the world.
We do not intend the revised guidance to be prescriptive but to help researchers, funders, and other decision makers to make appropriate methodological and practical choices.
