Sentence examples for prescriptive power from inspiring English sources

Nursing leaders say that their push to have more nurses earn doctorates has nothing to do with their fight of several decades in state legislatures to give nurses more autonomy, money and prescriptive power.

Nor is it clear how durable the glasses will be, or how long they will retain their prescriptive power, since the oils or the shape may deteriorate over time.

The simulator can be suitably customized to real, pure-transshipment ports and adequately tuned to get an appreciable prescriptive power.

There was some frustration amongst some leaders that Leveson had not been more prescriptive about the powers Ofcom might have over the independent body if Ofcom believes the body is not carrying out its duties properly.

His moral thinking could be prescriptive but also munificent: all power was corrupting, no form of sexual love was a sin.

The dominant prescriptive technologies establish structures of power and control that follow what Franklin sees as male patterns of hierarchy, authoritarianism, competition and exclusion.

He said: "Hacking is defined in a very prescriptive way under the Regulatory and Investigatory Powers Act.

For example, participants were not prescriptive about who should teach about privilege and power, or "whiteness".

This increased schools' power over resource allocation but introduced a prescriptive and detailed national curriculum and regular pupil assessment, with Ofsted and league tables emerging four years later.

ECD offers a principled approach to assessment design and statistical model construction and serves a prescriptive approach for analysts to take advantage of this power in terms of assessment design, model estimation, and substantive inference.

Repugnant as it may be, the simple answer is that we need to learn prescriptive English because that's the way the people in power communicate.