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• a  pertaining to giving directives or rules
  prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage

• It's instructive because if you leave aside the prophetic, prescriptive parts of Marx's writings, there's a trenchant diagnosis of the underlying problems of a market economy that .
• Axelrod says Obama's looking to be "more prescriptive," reports impatience with Senate negotiations, says Grassley, Enzi aren't acting in "good faith.
• His pictures include some of the grand cliches of modern American photography, but they are cliches Adams has a prescriptive right to, since he invented them.

• normative

• descriptive

News & Articles

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• Bill Signed to Bring More Practitioners to Alabama
  Historic legislation was signed into law Monday following a unanimous vote in May that will allow for the expansion of privileges to increase prescriptive authority for nurse practitioners in Alabama.
  June 10, 2013 - NBC 15 Mobile

Quotes

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• Sean McCormack in Forbes
  We're not going to be prescriptive here,McCormack told reporters. "They do need to come together; they need to broker some political solution to the political crisis. They need to find a political solution; what that political solution is,...
• Pranab Mukherjee in Expressindia.com
  We have to see what kind of amendments come. Then only we can decide. But we cannot accept prescriptive conditionalities,said Mukherjee while accompanying President Pratibha Patil on her two-day visit to West Bengal.
• David Cameron in Times Online
  Mr Cameron added: "By working together constructively with business we can achieve far more than through top-down, over-prescriptive micromanagement."