Sentence examples for prescriptive directions from inspiring English sources

Its sternly prescriptive directions were countered in our time by the more descriptive "Webster's Dictionary of English Usage," by E. Ward Gilman, teased in this space for decades as "Dr. Roundheels".

Prescriptive frameworks provide direction on the implementation process via a series of steps or procedures.

Following prescriptive rally-style Tulip diagram directions, we pulled off on to a potholed gravel track and veered away from the main road.

It's a prescriptive right of way.

The Bauhaus group laid down no prescriptive plans as to what direction theatre should take but opened up a variety of possibilities, which were then offered for other artists to follow.

Other providers in the U.S., such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, have prescriptive authority when practicing under the direction of a supervising physician.

Instruction is not prescriptive, but rather exploratory.

During the RPD model, prescriptive and inquiry labs differed in the degree of guidance and direction provided during the inquiry experience.

For many or most stage actors, whose time-honored method is often to ignore stage directions wherever possible, such precision can seem maddeningly prescriptive.

These propositions also provide directions for future research that might lead to prescriptive guidelines for managers of organizations contemplating implementing ERP systems.

The Tory direction of travel is for a smaller, less prescriptive national curriculum, a greatly reduced role for local councils, encouragement for new providers of schools and less red-tape tying the hands of entrepreneurial head teachers.