The railroads claimed that a State did not have the right to prescribe rates and refused to be bound by these laws.
They tried to prescribe safety appliances to the operating department, and rates to the traffic department.
It does notprescribe human sacrifices and counsels moderation in the use of wine and maithuna.
But whereas the Purâṇas approve of both Vedic rites and others, the Tantras insist that ceremonies other than those which they prescribe are now useless.
The natives of Cochin China, reasoning in an opposite manner, prescribe it as emmenagogue.
The physicians of India prescribe the powdered root with milk for fevers and for nervous and urinary diseases.
The constant cry of patients is: "Doctor, if you could only prescribe some good tonic or some food that will give me strength, then I should be all right!
We prescribefor the removal of lice only cold water and the comb.
Worn out by constant watching over Arthur's health, Helen's own had suffered very considerably; and Doctor Goodenough had had reason to prescribe for her as well as for his younger patient.
Such limit did its words prescribe to me, The question I relinquished, and restricted Myself to ask it humbly who it was.
Read my book" was a very frequent reply to his patients also; and he could seldom be prevailed upon to prescribe or give an opinion, if the case was one which appeared to depend upon improper dieting.
Opinion, he declared to be something with which government had nothing to do; government was no more competent to prescribe beliefs than medicine, and constraint made hypocrites, not converts.
Whether the Constitution builders will content themselves with prohibiting polygamous marriages, or will go further and prescribe the polygamous association also will be developed in time.
Drake responded, saying substantially, "I cannot prescribein your case without a personal interview.
Drake's reply, which was, that he would not undertake to prescribe for him without a personal interview.
In short, the formal steps indicate the points that should be covered by the teacher in preparing to conduct a recitation, but should not prescribe the actual course of teaching.
No ordinance can prescribe at just what point the spontaneous working of some unconscious attitude and habit is to be checked till we have made explicit what is implied in it.
Imagine a doctor called in to prescribefor a patient.
And the congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records and proceedings shall be proved,[5] and the effect thereof.
The army and navy regulations prescribe duties of officers, soldiers and seamen, and provide for the organization and management of courts martial.
The power to regulate commerce implies the power to prescribe rules for traffic and navigation, and to do such things as are necessary to render them safe.
In 1871 they got a rider attached to an appropriation bill which authorized the chief executive to prescribe rules for the admission of persons into the civil service and allowed him to appoint a commission to put the act into effect.
The Hepburn law also enabled the Commission to prescribe the methods of book-keeping which the roads must follow, to call for monthly or special reports and to employ examiners who should have access to the books of the carriers.
I wouldn't prescribe for myself for anything in the world, and I'm going to take whatever you give me.
Nor can any state prescribe the manner in which it must be exercised.
I prescribe the horn saddle because of its convenience.
In some respects a cotton rope is preferable to one of hemp, though the latter is more commonly used, and regulations prescribe it for army pack trains.
He thought it great rashness to prescribe limits, as it were, to infinite wisdom, and to affirm that man's salvation could not possibly have been wrought in any other way than by the incarnation and satisfaction of the Son of God.
The preface to the Book of Common Prayer had expressly declared that 'In these our doings we condemn no other nations, nor prescribe anything but to our own people only.
Expropriation is to be made upon just compensation, so far as a law of the Reich does not prescribe otherwise.
And so it is with all positive obligations which prescribeduties to be fulfilled.
Yes, my Beloved, I will cease to prescribe Thee hours or methods; Thou shalt be ever welcome.
Not knowing the local situation, I could not tell them exactly what to do next, or how or with whom to do it; not seeing the patient or his symptoms, I did not diagnose the disease or prescribe medicine.
It must be made unethical and unprofessional for physician and optician alike to prescribein the dark.
What I would request is, that you would prescribe for me, as I have no great opinion of your master's talents.
But because I have a love towards you, I will not write any more sharply unto you about this matter, though I very well might but now I have done so, lest being a condemned man, I should seem to prescribe to you as an Apostle.
For he that in these things cannot govern himself, how shall he be able to prescribe them to another?
These things I prescribe to you, not as if I were somebody extraordinary: for though I am bound for his name, I am not yet perfect in Christ Jesus.
Do you prescribe to me no drugs from your pharmacopoeia?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prescribe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
