Even the good spectrum proposals, however, may be hampered by overly prescriptive rules based on scarcity.
More recently ministers have been positively prescriptive, suggesting how many plants might be built and where.
Yet the code drafted not by Mr Higgs, but mostly by civil servants appears excessively detailed and prescriptive.
The second critical step is putting a layer of analytics (historical, predictive, prescriptive) to make it actionable.
Alternatives that rely on incentives and offer increased flexibility are often more cost-effective than more prescriptive approaches.
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Opponents have claimed the changes are over-prescriptive and promote a culturally narrow "kings and queens" view of history.
It's a bit too prescriptive, and it sounds otherworldly at a time of deep spending cuts in Britain.
Yet blackouts at home and embarrassment abroad are even worse, and so government pronouncements have been growing increasingly prescriptive.
Ministers have become more prescriptive in their announcements, specifying the number of nuclear-power stations they want built and where.
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The fullest guide through this territory, as it happens, avoids pointedly prescriptive claims.
Shadow Schools Minister Nick Gibb said the draft code was "far too prescriptive".
"Mortality really is scheme specific and too prescriptive a trigger will not fit that very comfortably, " said James Wintle of Watson Wyatt.
This certainly sounded like a rejection of the prescriptive approach of the national curriculum and the numeracy and literacy strategies.
The GSIM tool is a non-prescriptive set of indicators, designed for adaptation and use particularly by media of all forms.
Given her talents, she has written relatively little, and that little has been cautious and analytical rather than bold and prescriptive.
"I don't think it should be too prescriptive, " says Mr. Lee of the legislation, which was led by the state bar association.
The legal and political systems in continental Europe are most prescriptive and leave little room for cultural exceptions, at least in theory.
Because EPR is not prescriptive about implementation, it provides incentives for businesses to voluntarily reduce packaging and get innovative with materials and design.
Mr. Banks, whose group represents telecom companies, said the report "illustrates the debate between "prescriptive regulation" or something more like a "public-private partnership.
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AmeriCorps changed my life in helping me fundamentally shift the way I approach solving problems, from a prescriptive approach to a disruptive approach.
She tabled a parliamentary motion raising concerns about the prescriptive nature of the Learning and Development Requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Solomon never addresses the question of aspiration head on his book is not that prescriptive but, reading it, I found myself thinking about my own childhood.
Thus the guidelines are not prescriptive in nature, but are suggestive to facilitate knowledge-based decision-making to adopt OA policies and strengthen national research systems.
"The idea that heads have to prove success to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State is highly prescriptive and very bureaucratic, " he said.
There are worries overseas too, for instance that the SEC will try to interfere with IFRS and interpret it in a narrow, prescriptive way.
The Curriculum for Excellence aims to give teachers more freedom and make lessons less prescriptive for children between the ages of three and 18.
Specialized medical research has even found prescriptive applications for vices.
There are extensive curriculums in the other home nations - less prescriptive in Scotland - but only England retains the system of "high stakes" mandatory testing.
It also seems that academics, wanting to write their first managerial piece, immediately assume they have to be explicitly prescriptive, and tell managers what to do.
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The 2015 guidelines on dress code, detailed in full on the Royal Ascot website, are pretty prescriptive, especially for racegoers in the higher echelons of the Royal Enclosure.
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