Farmers can be among the most hidebound of managers, so it is no surprise that they are nervous about a new idea called prescriptive planting, which is set to disrupt their business.
As the following quotations illustrate, the facilitators took care not to impose new ideas in a prescriptive way, rather seeking to feed them into the discussions to serve as the raw materials for the development of new ways of being and seeing.
This may seem like the sort of simple thing you don't need a recipe for, more an idea than a prescriptive set of instructions.
Yes, there are implications in her work for how we think about mothering as well as fathering, but as she clearly points out, her ideas are descriptive, not prescriptive.
Christine Korsgaard (1996) has endorsed the idea of something like objectively prescriptive entities, though these entities are not, in her view, moral properties.
If not, the idea that belief is intrinsically prescriptive stands in prima facie conflict with the principle that 'ought' implies 'can'.
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.
For your idea to spread, it can't be too prescriptive or too well branded.
As with another Gove scheme for a single exam board, and his ludicrously prescriptive first draft of the history curriculum, the O-level idea was summarily dropped.
In a world changed by immigration, and intolerant of the idea of an élite, many people felt that prescriptive style manuals were exclusionary, even cruel.
