Sentence examples for prescriptive measures from inspiring English sources

The report provided few prescriptive measures for the banks and was vague about the timetables for adopting changes.

Harriett Baldwin, the economic secretary to the Treasury, hailed the charter as evidence that the voluntary approach was working, and said if this momentum continued it would rule out the need for more prescriptive measures from the government.

We've said that if sufficient progress isn't made to increase the representation of women and ethnic minorities on boards we will consider introducing more prescriptive measures, such as quotas, because lack of diversity isn't just bad for equality, it's bad for business, too".

Numerous issues are identified and discussed, establishing that there is need for more prescriptive measures to support distributed design information management.

Some argue that the problem can be easily solved with more prescriptive measures to modify lifestyles of young children.

The prescriptive measure Banks concludes with is: Black women should be more open to marrying outside their race.

May told the Guardian that the term, asbo, would be dropped and she would cut the category of antisocial behaviour offences from 19 to five as part of a process of making "the toolkit of measures" less prescriptive, bureaucratic and costly.

In New York, nurse practitioners are legally recognized and licensed to diagnose illness and physical conditions, have prescriptive authority and perform therapeutic and corrective measures.

The Obama Department of Education has embraced a much more prescriptive role in telling states how to measure teacher effectiveness and where teachers should teach.

Kevin Courtney, the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said there were some troubling trends in the results, in particular the drop in entries for creative arts subjects as schools conformed to the government's "prescriptive" English baccalaureate (Ebacc) requirements – a school performance measure.

"I think that's too hard and it would be very difficult to force that in in a prescriptive way," he said, suggesting there should be transitional measures in parts of London, due to the higher cost of housing.