prescriptive in a sentence

Examples

1. Philosophy cannot be prescriptive because it understands only in hindsight.
2. He analyzed the diagnostic, prescriptive, and mobilizing functions of leadership.
3. Prescriptive grammarians consider the informal variants to be indicative of careless speech.
4. Or'the definitive / prescriptive language debate'for that matter?
5. Editor-in-Chief Chris Mitchell " prescriptive " and stifling.
6. This is much more prescriptive than market-based instruments.
7. If you abhor this construction, you are influenced by prescriptive grammarians.
8. Color names for the most part are descriptive not prescriptive.
9. It is prescriptive in tone and assumes poetry to be essentially imitative.
10. The postulate therefore becomes descriptive of research and prescriptive of research methodology.