Sentence examples for prescriptive use from inspiring English sources

Witness its banning by the Taliban, its minimal, prescriptive use by Mao Zedong in China, and in Stalin's Russia.

His new book, "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature" (Viking; $27.95), recycles some of the material published in "How the Mind Works" but puts it to a more prescriptive use.

Only after the survey's anonymity had gone the way of the dodo did A-Rod admitothethe use of both testosterone – which can be legitimately prescribed for a variety of reasons – and methenolone enanthate, an anabolic steroid with no known prescriptive use.

In a paper, "The Descriptive and Prescriptive Use of Previous Purchase Price in Negotiations," published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes in 1996, researchers concluded that considering what a seller paid previously -- what's known as sunk costs -- can be strategically rational if the seller is, in fact, influenced by that amount.

A prescriptive use of equality is present when a prescriptive standard is applied, i.e., a norm or rule, e.g. people ought to be equal before the law.

These difficulties are avoided if, instead, meaning statements are simply construed as having a prescriptive use (while having a descriptive content).

In my opinion the combined use of structured and unstructured data is the only viable path towards development of predictive and prescriptive uses of analytics.

Importantly, as we argue elsewhere, both descriptive and prescriptive uses of the term are embedded within particular normative frameworks or world views which shape thinking and practice about what is the "problem" in global health and what are the legitimate "solutions" [ 42].

"But, if it's going to be top down and prescriptive, or used as a vehicle to funnel pet projects of the regents," she said, "it's not going to be effective, and it's not going to improve quality for Texas students".

The prescriptive codes used in fire protection are the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) codes and regional building codes.

Key predictors of lifetime non-prescriptive psychostimulant use included self-reported procrastination and poor time-management, use of other substances (especially nicotine/tobacco, alcohol, and cocaine), and students' perception of non-prescriptive psychostimulant use as normative on campus.