prescriptive vs descriptive

Some examples from the web:

• The meaning of PRESCRIPTIVE is serving to prescribe. How to use prescriptive in a sentence.
• Certified registered nurse practitioners (CRNPs) who hold prescriptive authority approval fall within ABC-MAP's definition of prescribers or dispensers.
• Once you obtain your advanced practice registered nursing (APRN) authorization from the Board of Registration in Nursing, you may apply for prescriptive ...
• The following outlines the Prescriptive Authority endorsement process for adding prescriptive authority to an existing Montana APRN license.
• Use the online system to register prescriptive authority AND to file the notice of intent to practice/supervise as required of PAs and physicians.

Some examples from the web:

• Supplementary descriptive text which can be attached to data or metadata.
• That's great, honey, and very descriptive.
• An unique and descriptive name for the encoder.
• Enter any descriptive name you like for this filter.
• A geographic name or descriptive text associated to a property identified by the locator.
• The Board of Appeal therefore erred in holding the trade mark applied for descriptive and non-distinctive.
• Instead, the findings were confined to possible descriptive meanings of the individual components EURO and HYPO.
• I tend to be a little more descriptive in the telling of a tale.
• To submit a descriptive study protocol to CHMP.
• Insert a short descriptive name of your project here.
• Try a little more descriptive language, Andy.
• No, it's not even descriptive.
• This should be an analytical and not merely descriptive exercise.
• Its a, shall we say, descriptive text, it isnt a statistical thing.
• The Work Programme has evolved from a descriptive catalogue of actions to a political instrument.
• descriptive document referred to by IMO resolution A.744(18).
• No other findings of fact were made on the descriptive character of the designation EUROHYPO as a whole.
• Joint actions of this kind can be devised for more precisely defined subjects and should be less descriptive in nature.
• No one could ever use them for the scene of a novel or a descriptive blackdrop.
• The Court considered that, in respect of that descriptive character, it was immaterial whether other terms could be used for the protected services.