Ethics cannot be based on the authoritative certainty given by mathematics and logic, or prescribed directly from the empirical findings of science.

A pill will be curtly prescribed from the other side of the bed.

The drug, diethylstilbestrol, was prescribed from 1947 to 1971 to three million pregnant women to prevent miscarriage.

And the community had prescribed her life from that point as one of sinner and outcast.

- To carry out other functions as prescribed by Government of Nepal from time to time.

Comment: I got this prescribed from the free clinic.

Hanging was the method prescribed by law from 1860 to 1921.

The death penalty is prescribed for conversion from Yahwism and for proselytisation.

Activity for almost every hour of the day is prescribed, from reveille at 6:45 A.M. through mandatory study hours until lights out at midnight.

Mercury(I) iodide, called Protiodide, was a very commonly used drug in the 19th century, prescribed for everything from acne to kidney disease.