This survey results are somewhat to our surprise; to the factors of gender, education and household income, the possible reason is the current smoking bans in public places in Anhui Province are only advocate prescriptive, lacking appropriate executive body, and there are no specific penalties; thus, smoking in public places is a very common phenomenon.
Horace narrowed the theory of metrical decorum, making the choice of metre prescriptive; only an ill-bred and ignorant poet would treat comic material in metres appropriate to tragedy.
Richard Linklater himself has admitted that the basis of his 12-year coming-of-age study was more of a blueprint than a screenplay – after all, you can only be so prescriptive as a writer when there's no way of telling how your cast is going to morph from year to year.
However, some critics have pointed out that the notion of biological good or well-being is only descriptive not prescriptive (see Williams 1992 and O'Neill 1993, Ch. 2).
Our analysis, supported by prior literature, provides a grounded description of some phenomena that have, hitherto, had only intuitive or prescriptive support.
But these rules, some of which are prescriptive, are only aesthetic guidelines.
"So far as I can tell that kind of narrowly prescriptive reading only happens in the offices of school superintendents".
Moreover, the stereotypical beliefs about sexes are not only descriptive, but also prescriptive (Deaux and LaFrance 1998; Heilman and Parks-Stamm 2007; Rudman and Phelan 2007).
Heraclitus is not only claiming that human prescriptive law must harmonize with divine law, but he is also asserting that divine law encompasses both the universal laws of the cosmos itself and the particular laws of men.
