prescriptive

Personal finance advice is prescriptive.

In the 2002 letter, the then Prince of Wales said to a senior UK government minister that “more prescriptive laws” were creating “increasing difficulty in many walks of life”.

You describe how you finally lost weight yet seem wary of being prescriptive.

Those depictions weren’t always positive, and locals still face discrimination and prescriptive gender roles.

The findings suggest there should be less effort put into teaching prescriptive, "one-word-fits-all" principles, and more focus on how to be sensitive to the particulars of a situation.