Sentence examples for as a prescriptive from inspiring English sources

They are not intended as a prescriptive checklist and of course shorter articles or NIBs ["news in brief" items] will not be able to cover every point.

Being a showman as well as a prescriptive know-it-all, Shaw doesn't endorse socialism directly in "Major Barbara," which is running at the American Airlines Theatre, under the direction of Daniel Sullivan.

So to abandon knowledge is to also discard 'self' as a prescriptive term to give up using 'self-other' as a guiding distinction.

The challenge for Venio, and for anyone attempting to provide a product that acts as a prescriptive tool when it comes to personal health, is not only to get users, but to get them coming back.

The framework is also not designed as a prescriptive tool to "impose" strategies and "assign" roles.

This undermines conceptual analysis as a prescriptive philosophical methodology, particularly its aspiration to deliver universal conceptual truths.

As well as playing a prescriptive role, norms and values in GHG has become the subject of growing scholarship.

For example, although Gibbard (2012) construes meaning statements as having a prescriptive content he denies that this has any metaphysical implications for the nature of meaning.

These difficulties are avoided if, instead, meaning statements are simply construed as having a prescriptive use (while having a descriptive content).

This is not the place to theoretically elaborate on the heuristic value of ILTIAD as regards a prescriptive design analysis following the above approaches.

However, policy analysis often includes a prescriptive dimension as well as a descriptive one.