Sentence examples for prescriptive claims from inspiring English sources

The fullest guide through this territory, as it happens, avoids pointedly prescriptive claims.

It surveys, parses, and analyzes the central interpretive and prescriptive claims made by each of these theories, exploring and exposing to criticism their underlying assumptions and commitments.

The Special Master contemplates further proceedings to determine what islands were in the Sabine in 1812 and what prescriptive claims Texas may have to such islands.

Shermer suggests that evolution is hard to accept in part because it is perceived to have dire moral consequences (Chapter 2), but he never takes on the admittedly difficult project of articulating a relationship between descriptive claims (the "is") and prescriptive claims (the "ought").

Austrians oppose such prescriptive claims by MMT's practitioners on principle.

Theology also acts as a screen and space to explore the promises and pitfalls of making prescriptive claims.

This prescriptive call to human perfection through truth and goodness is the essence of the idea of Neoplatonic Return, and it is this idea which lies at the core of Ibn Gabirol's claim that we ought purge our souls of darkness and "return to our like[ness]".

If you can prove the previous owner allowed permissive use, that defeats the neighbor's prescriptive easement claim because the use wasn't hostile.

Just war rules, the prescriptive realist might claim, do not have independent moral purchase on the attention of states.

However, Scott claimed prescriptive rights to the McMurdo Sound area, describing it as his own "field of work", and Shackleton's use of the area as a base was in breach of an undertaking not to do so.

The statement that rights are claims is prescriptive for, not descriptive of, usage.