While direct land use change is prescriptive and fully causal for the particular project, indirect land use change is reflective of a change in state that could arise from the policy decision.
This study was non-interventional and was not intended to be prescriptive of dose conversion ratios for clinical practice; nevertheless, the findings of the subgroup analyses may suggest that the conversion ratio should be <1.2, in a population clinically similar to the sample.
One is prescriptive: "hone in" is an error for "home in".
No longer is it sufficient to be merely descriptive, but interpretation should also be prescriptive, with recommendations for management and anticipatory care.
It is impractical to be prescriptive in guidelines for management where consensus may be lacking, such as encouraging use of a signing system in early communication [ 41, 54] in the context of characteristic speech and language delays; some anecdotally see this as a distraction from focusing on oral communication [ 20].
"As this report warns, being prescriptive about teaching methods for reading can alienate children from this process".
Depending on the grammarian's approach, a grammar can be prescriptive (i.e., provide rules for correct usage), descriptive (i.e., describe how a language is actually used), or generative (i.e., provide instructions for the production of an infinite number of sentences in a language).
In any event, it is wrong for critics to be prescriptive about what the novelists of any generation should write.
It's not anyone's place to be prescriptive about what justice looks like for other people.
Those shows are prescriptive.
