Sentence examples for prescriptive to from inspiring English sources

Here Hare makes further use of his thesis that the meaning of "I" is partly prescriptive: to hypothesize "if I were Napoleon" is already to "identify with his prescriptions", in the sense of prescribing that, other things being equal, they be satisfied within the scope of the hypothesis (1981: 96 9).

So it would be wrong to be prescriptive to any individual writer about what they are writing.

Of course, he says, Britten's music describes this sea and this sky, "but it's too prescriptive to say he's talking just about these people and this village".

"Teachers asked us to make the secondary curriculum less prescriptive to give them more flexibility over how they teach and that's exactly what we have done.

My book was aiming to be descriptive rather than prescriptive; to describe how history has alternated between tight money regimes (favoured by creditors) and loose regimes (favoured by debtors).

Many nuclear power plants in the U.S. and elsewhere are transitioning from a prescriptive to a risk-informed performance-based fire protection program.

The recommendations are not intended to be prescriptive but to help researchers to make decisions.

This method is not intended to be prescriptive, but to provide a simple model for tailoring content to the unique educational models that exist throughout the world.

We do not intend the revised guidance to be prescriptive but to help researchers, funders, and other decision makers to make appropriate methodological and practical choices.

Parts of the novel are prescriptive, guides to how to live a meaningful life, not unlike parts of "Infinite Jest".

But must they become so prescriptive as to try to set rules about exactly how sex should proceed?