"The data and the spot weather forecasts met the fire prescription," the Bandelier superintendent, Mr. Weaver, said in an interview before his suspension was announced.
Although there are no sure-fire prescriptions for long life, exercise has often been touted as the key to good health for both young and old.
COMBINE reincarnation with ancient Egypt and you have a sure-fire prescription for inflaming the imagination.
Not yet past Halloween, Scott's makeshift lineup looked like the sure-fire prescription for a troublesome ailment known as Johnny Newman Syndrome.
Outwardly Sunless is a freakish clown who fires prescription pills at passers-by with a slingshot, and disguises himself when he goes out by wearing a mop on his head.
This fighting-fire-with-fire prescription, far from guaranteeing "the independence of the Federal bench," as promised, would leave us with judges who adjudicate cases with one eye on the Constitution and the other on the outcome of the next Presidential or senatorial election.
Health care insurers will spend a lot of time on Capitol Hill, lobbying Congress to put out their two biggest fires: prescription drug costs for seniors and the rising number of uninsured Americans.
In Florida, where an HIV-positive man named Gaylus Bailey was fired for using medicinal marijuana prescribed to him to alleviate HIV-related symptoms, a judge ruled that the company was well within its right to fire him, prescription or no prescription.
The new Democratic House has not talked a lot about tackling high hospital prices, preferring instead to train their fire on prescription drug prices: an important problem, but a smaller one relative to hospital prices.
To decide whether a planned fire "meets the prescription," meaning that it is likely to remain under control, foresters plug a list of factors into a computer model: the amount of wood and other tinder in the forest, the moisture content of the fuels, the relative humidity and temperature of the air, the speed of the wind.
