| That's prescriptivism — no doubt about it. |
| Just as a paradigm of mechanical prescriptivism took hold of the elocutionary movement in the nineteenth century, so too did it pervade instruction in handwriting. |
| There are several alternative theories of ethics, including utilitarianism, universal prescriptivism, Kant's theory, intuitionism, and the theory of information ethics. |
| Something that tends to go along with prescriptivism is a pessimism about the future of a favourite language or languages. |
| He asserted that his prescriptivism was driven by the urge to stick to the Swahili culture and heritage. |
| Priestley's and Lowth's grammars epitomized, respectively, the two main trends of grammatical tradition, namely descriptivism and prescriptivism. |
