Sentence examples for prescriptive assumptions from inspiring English sources

Like any international development program, the MDGs are rooted in a particular paradigm--a series of prescriptive assumptions, often implicit, about how people in different parts of the world should assist each other (or not) in realizing their full potential as human beings and as societies.

The critical role and potential contribution of the articulation of paradigmatic, normative, diagnostic, prescriptive, causal, external and other assumptions in program design and evaluation are discussed and then evaluated for utility to current evaluative practice.

This is reflected in prescriptive methods and is the dominant assumption in most studies.

For example, the criticism that pathways are excessively prescriptive may be countered by the assumption that the development of healthcare tariffs, such as the Payment by Results system in England (PBR), requires some standardisation of care.

Deliberately or unintentionally, such assumptions can make these studies policy-prescriptive.

When I applied the idea to poetry I saw how prescriptive we can be – particularly as readers – in our assumptions about the influence of gender on writing.

This paper addresses the issue of newspaper-headline interpretation by questioning standard assumptions on how headlines are designed on the basis of largely prescriptive pragmatic guidelines or norms.

We often make assumptions about the needs on the ground and devise smart but prescriptive programs.

Regret minimization is an approach to the prescriptive, non-cooperative goal that explicitly breaks this symmetry, but, since it makes no assumptions about the adversary, it achieves only limited guarantees.

Those shows are prescriptive.

They're not prescriptive.