Sentence examples for prescriptive it from inspiring English sources

A spokeswoman said its work with schools was not prescriptive: "it is up to school leaders and teachers to decide what is most appropriate and relevant for their school".

As with other competitors in this space, Miradore's technology aims to make it easier for organizations to manage the increasingly diverse portfolio of devices being pushed inside their walls by the BYOD trend that's washing away the prescriptive IT department model of yesteryear.

Perhaps because "This Time Is Different" is empirical rather than prescriptive, it has defied categorization.

Professor Arrow's theory is prescriptive; it describes how people should behave.

The second is too prescriptive: it provides guaranteed places for a select group in a specific role, without strengthening the career ladder for women as a whole.However, there is plenty more that can be done.

It's diagnostic, not prescriptive: it takes an analytical if visceral look at how the experience of war can change a man, how it eats into his brain so badly he ends up hooked on it.

While the Obama guidance is non-prescriptive, it has long drawn the ire of conservative groups who say it is an example of federal overreach and has kept dangerous kids in the classroom at the expense of innocent children.

It is very prescriptive and it is very difficult to prove.

It's a bit too prescriptive, and it sounds otherworldly at a time of deep spending cuts in Britain.

Being a showman as well as a prescriptive know-it-all, Shaw doesn't endorse socialism directly in "Major Barbara," which is running at the American Airlines Theatre, under the direction of Daniel Sullivan.

"It's really a consumer choice and I don't think we need to be that prescriptive about it," Ms. Dressman said.