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).
Findings demonstrate that peace and life worthwhile are distinct but related items that elicit holistic concerns and are not prescriptive (i.e. do not embody a world view biased to a particular religious outlook).
Nyvad's method can be called descriptive, whereas ICDAS-LAA is prescriptive i.e. cilinical signs of activity are given numeric values and the sum score indicates lesion activity [ 12].
In Table 3, we examined the correlations among themes, an indicator of how themes might have been packaged together in discussion to offer a diagnostic (i.e. problem definition) and prescriptive (i.e. problem solution) account of the Lacks case or tissue research more generally.
As nicely put by Lane, it was "permissive not prescriptive", i.e., a critical condition but by no account an overarching cause of eukaryogenesis; other factors such as, for example, a massive intron attack on the host genome could have been extremely important as well.
"If the legislation were permissive rather than prescriptive, I cannot think of any plausible reason why a Conservative should object".
