prescriptive approach

It requires a prescriptive approach that is appropriate for the proposed land use.

At present, our partners in Europe tend to follow an old-fashioned prescriptive approach to social policy.

The prescriptive approach to constitutionalism addresses what a constitution should be.

When they put the proposal together they chose a prescriptive approach rather than a performance one.

This contrasts with a more prescriptive approach that auditors had employed.

Nor is there a widely accepted prescriptive approach for encouraging patient compliance.

Although I would ideally prefer a more prescriptive approach, you have to allow the faculty enough latitude to design their own courses in general education.

The deliberately prescriptive approach was a stance.

Diversities in corporate missions, structures, cultures, and capabilities prohibit a prescriptive approach to information management leadership.

At the same time the prescriptive approach can bring to stifle changes and innovations, so best way to set building process is blending both different approaches.

One example of this prescriptive approach was the project of the National Municipal League to develop a model state constitution.

The prescriptive approach can be interpreted as an effort to do as much as is economically justified to reduce the risk of climate change.

The school espouses an ethos of student respect and uses a diagnostic prescriptive approach to educate a diverse population of learners.

In the prescriptive approach, a discount rate is chosen based on what is thought to be in the best interests of future generations (the social discount rate).

Hence this school prefers the strictly relational and systemic method of elicitive conflict transformation (Lederach) to the prescriptive approaches of modern conflict resolution.

Jomini's military writings are frequently analyzed: he took a didactic, prescriptive approach, reflected in a detailed vocabulary of geometric terms such as bases, strategic lines, and key points.

The prescriptive approach, named PROMETHEE, provides the decision maker with both complete and partial rankings of the actions.

Such an evidence-based approach can be contrasted with a prescriptive approach to safety commonly enforced by American safety standards, which require safety to be justified using a prescribed process.

In general various approaches to consulting can be thought of as lying somewhere along a continuum, with an 'expert' or prescriptive approach at one end, and a facilitative approach at the other.

I am in favour of the need to protect soil, but am yet to be convinced that a directive is the right approach, or whether a less prescriptive approach would be more suitable.

The practical application of this prescriptive approach (how people ought to make decisions) is called decision analysis, and aimed at finding tools, methodologies and software to help people make better decisions.

Rather than relying on the leaden, prescriptive approach to cookbooks of five years ago, authors have eased back to address one of the great pleasures and most personal parts of cooking: sharing recipes.

The guidance has undergone extensive consultation and aims to provide an approach to enforcement which is compliant with all the legislation yet appropriate to risk; moving away from the prescriptive approach sometimes taken in the past.

The approach to safety barriers was revised in 2005/06 from a prescriptive approach to a risk assessment-based system (Road Restraints Risk Assessment Process (RRRAP)) [2].

Prescriptive approaches to language, concerned with how the prescriptivist recommends language should be used, are often contrasted with the alternative approach of descriptive linguistics, which observes and records how language actually is used.