Sentence examples for prescriptive means from inspiring English sources

Given these problems with the estimation of a priori risk levels, the threshold method becomes suspect as a prescriptive means of rational decision making.

Today one of the mothers, Vicky Unwin, in an article in the Observer to mark a year since the death of her daughter, Louise, after an overdose of the controlled tranquilliser ketamine, says she was horrified to discover how plans to embed drug and alcohol education in the national curriculum had been abandoned in favour of a less prescriptive approach that means many schools now do almost none.

This research followed a prescriptive approach by means of action research technique.

Prescriptive and coordinated means can also be sought to compel investors and developers to development and contribute to the revitalisation of the inner city.

The interplay among these three factors is by no means prescriptive, thereby reinforcing the "non-cookie cutter" feature of implementing supported housing with a person coping with SMI.

So the sustainability rules have by no means a prescriptive character for technology design.

In addition, the LCCA methodology is used as an assessment tool for the designs obtained by means of prescriptive and performance-based optimum design methodologies.

The concoction of prescriptive standards and diffused means of fulfilling them is a bitter brew.

The framework is not meant to be prescriptive nor predictive, rather it is meant to promote a deeper understanding of healthcare system transitions for optimizing patient-centeredness, by stimulating further investigations and discussions.

The journey toward gender parity doesn't mean one prescriptive path for every woman to follow or one definitive list to check off.

In each case, the report offers some samples to show how the ad could look and what happens when a user clicks or taps on it — the IAB says these examples "are not meant to prescriptive but rather representative of the range that is commonly used today".