Tony Abbott has called on airlines to tell passengers about flight routes over war zones, but resisted union demands for a "prescriptive" approach to force Qantas to bypass Iraq.
Because, for a given study, aims and circumstances can vary widely, we have sought to avoid a prescriptive approach to the process of methods selection.
There is further a prescriptive aspect to the meaning of "I": to take a role to be possibly one's own, and to prescribe for that possible situation, is to give weight to the preferences of the occupant of that role as if they were actually one's own.
These gaps include a lack of attention to context-specificity; a prescriptive approach to defining 'what' global health is; and lack of reflexivity about the goals of global health.
In fact, nowadays some countries, such as the UK, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Canada and Japan, have already started to change their fire safety codes from a prescriptive approach to a performance-based one.
If a hedge merely obstructs your light and its branches do not overhang your property, you probably cannot force your neighbour to do anything about it unless there is a prescriptive right to light - that is one acquired through uninterrupted use over 20 years.
I'm not advocating a prescriptive approach to careers delivery, merely a set of reasonable guidelines to clarify expectations.
"I was very disappointed," she admits, "but no one has a prescriptive right to go there.
Since the 1960s, most professional linguists have taken a descriptive rather than a prescriptive approach to the English language.
There is a prescriptive flavor to this tale, a sense that this is ideally how conservation should be done, never mind the shocking demise of a few benighted, if genuinely threatening Christians.
