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I think it is not at all unprecedented for the secretary to exercise the same authorities that I was discussing with Justice Thomas here, the authorities to set conditions of participation for hospitals and other providers in Medicare and Medicaid to impose very detailed, very prescriptive requirements that would have very high compliance costs. – General Brian H. Fletcher	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
While we share the sentiments of the bill, in order to preserve the Secretary’s flexibility to manage the Department, revisions would be appropriate to make mandates and prescriptive provisions into permissive authorities, such that the Secretary would be authorized to set up the office and envoy. – State Department	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's incredibly important with climate change, that we get into these forests and start doing the fitting and harvest and prescriptive burning, so that we can create healthier landscapes that are more resilient, for wildfire. – Kate Brown	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There's a notion that today there's a lot more flexibility, there isn't. Gender norms are very prescriptive. Gender norms are very restrictive. And everyone reinforces those gender norms. – Robert Blum	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Overly prescriptive regulation and onerous compliance obligations... would act as market barriers and stifle growth and competitiveness. – Jeff Paine	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Overly prescriptive regulations have resulted in unintended consequences, including reduced student lunch participation, higher costs and food waste. Federal nutrition standards should be modified to help school menu planners manage these challenges and prepare nutritious meals that appeal to diverse student tastes. – The School Nutrition Association	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We've become more targeted in whom we mailed letters to and more prescriptive in our language. – William McNabb	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We’ve become more targeted in whom we mailed letters to and more prescriptive in our language. – William McNabb	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A federal government approach that is overly prescriptive regarding the deployment of new hardware and software will deter the private sector’s ability to invent and compete in the marketplace, worse, it will drive us to relocate our business planning and R&D overseas, where we are being welcomed by foreign countries eager for investment in this new technology area. – Joshua Walden	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. – Joseph de Maistre	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	added by anonymous 13 years ago

I think it is not at all unprecedented for the secretary to exercise the same authorities that I was discussing with Justice Thomas here, the authorities to set conditions of participation for hospitals and other providers in Medicare and Medicaid to impose very detailed, very prescriptive requirements that would have very high compliance costs.

– General Brian H. Fletcher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While we share the sentiments of the bill, in order to preserve the Secretary’s flexibility to manage the Department, revisions would be appropriate to make mandates and prescriptive provisions into permissive authorities, such that the Secretary would be authorized to set up the office and envoy.

– State Department

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's incredibly important with climate change, that we get into these forests and start doing the fitting and harvest and prescriptive burning, so that we can create healthier landscapes that are more resilient, for wildfire.

– Kate Brown

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's a notion that today there's a lot more flexibility, there isn't. Gender norms are very prescriptive. Gender norms are very restrictive. And everyone reinforces those gender norms.

– Robert Blum

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Overly prescriptive regulation and onerous compliance obligations... would act as market barriers and stifle growth and competitiveness.

– Jeff Paine

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Overly prescriptive regulations have resulted in unintended consequences, including reduced student lunch participation, higher costs and food waste. Federal nutrition standards should be modified to help school menu planners manage these challenges and prepare nutritious meals that appeal to diverse student tastes.

– The School Nutrition Association

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We've become more targeted in whom we mailed letters to and more prescriptive in our language.

– William McNabb

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We’ve become more targeted in whom we mailed letters to and more prescriptive in our language.

– William McNabb

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A federal government approach that is overly prescriptive regarding the deployment of new hardware and software will deter the private sector’s ability to invent and compete in the marketplace, worse, it will drive us to relocate our business planning and R&D overseas, where we are being welcomed by foreign countries eager for investment in this new technology area.

– Joshua Walden

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.

– Joseph de Maistre

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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