Meanings of prescriptive authority in English

The progress of psychology toward the acquisition of prescriptive authority is critically reviewed.

A history of the prescriptive authority movement is documented, and recent legislative and policy initiatives are discussed.

What Minister, however able, however popular, could have withstood the wisdom, the irreproachability, the vast prescriptive authority, of the venerable Prince?

A review published today recommends that prescriptive authority should be extended to nurses and midwives and that legislation should be amended to enable this.

The doctrine of a future life for man has been created by the combined force of instinctive desire, analogical observation, prescriptive authority, and philosophical speculation.