Sentence examples for prescriptive element from inspiring English sources

Perhaps a clearer, prescriptive element can help those men to whom the "beleaguered" label seems to fit.

Qualified versions of supererogationism try to salvage a prescriptive element in the analysis of the concept without collapsing supererogation into duty (which would amount to denying its separate existence).

The expression of such positive or negative feelings, he later thought, also contained a prescriptive element, so in such expressions we are also encouraging others to share those feelings, and to act accordingly.

However, hypothesised differential adaptation to standing posture (FK > LK) was observed only for upper body contraction velocity, making recommendations regarding this prescriptive element inconclusive.

Ms. Hewlett's book didn't make it easy to get to those prescriptive elements.

They are taking in the bad news and not paying attention to the prescriptive elements".

The prescriptive elements of the charitable sector came as a bit of a shock to begin with.

Whether this is true or not is a matter of reasoned argument and evidence, not of faith yet Eastwood lets the descriptive and prescriptive elements of his story overlap and blend together.

Efforts to improve the prescriptive elements of systems, however, often prove unsuccessful, since the nature of complex and high-dimensional decision problems is difficult to capture precisely by models and algorithms.

There are, at any rate, clearly prescriptive elements in both these texts.

As explained in the next sub-section, Dworkin's methodological view incorporates some prescriptive elements.