prescriptive

The fact that some prescriptive rules are valuable does not mean that every grammatical injunction should be obeyed.

It was descriptive, prescriptive, and exemplary in its clarity.

For better or worse, the standards are not very prescriptive.

Simmons knows she faces an uphill battle—but her goal this time around is to be prescriptive about the problem.

In accordance with a prescriptive right, this remonstrance was received by the king in person on March 14.

No institution, no branch of legislature, no church, no prerogative or prescriptive claim has any rights against the Right.

Woman's prescriptive infirmity had stalked into the sunlight, which had clothed it in the freshness of an originality.

No merely prescriptive external rules, borrowed from society when the mothers were girls, can fully answer the purpose.

A prescriptive government, such as ours, never was the work of any legislator, never was made upon any foregone theory.