prescriptive

How To Use prescriptive In A Sentence

• Only in the 1680s was any serious attempt made to challenge the prescriptive rights of rural and urban elites to exercise power.
• I do not intend to turn this into a prescriptive handbook.
• How immensely impertinent is the prejudice that forbids so natural a use of money! why should the better half of a man's actions be always under the dominion of some prescriptive slavery; 'Tis hideous to think of. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
• The Puritan paradox, to name it such, was that a rigorous defense of the absoluteness of Scripture as an objective, prescriptive code, could not be made without a critical analysis of the contents of Scripture itself.
• It was not possible to be prescriptive about the nature of the benefits which a school had to provide to the poor nor the extent of them. Times, Sunday Times
• I'm generally supportive of Higgs, but I don't like the prescriptive nature of it.
• I can see how the functional-notional approach can be seen as prescriptive, in the sense of several decontextualised culturally specific sentences “this is how we apologise, this is how we complain etc.” S is for “Strategies” « An A-Z of ELT
• As elsewhere in the book these suggestions are not intended to be prescriptive but, rather, a stimulus for ideas.
• In practice, dictionaries take a middle course between wholehearted descriptivism and prescriptive edicts.
• self-evident," since become awkward of acceptance, were ever thus pettifogged out of the path, and fundamental principles have in this way prescriptively been tampered with. "Imperialism" and "The Tracks of Our Forefathers"