peremptory

How To Use peremptory In A Sentence

• To put it in religious language, the scientist is answerable to a very stern and peremptory magisterium, the magisterium of Nature herself.
• Yes, -- and, to confirm my suspicions, here rattle in the drums and pipe in the fifes, wooing us to get up, _get up_, with music too peremptory to be harmonious. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861
• Dr Barbara was able to switch from peremptory schoolmistress to doting mother in a way that always disarmed him. RUSHING TO PARADISE
• Human rights and peremptory norms of international law must be observed, and legal obligations toward third states must be respected.
• He has been the subject of much criticism, several recall attempts and diatribes because of what is described as arbitrary and arrogant behavior, peremptory statements and decisions.
• Then each side can exercise 23 peremptory challenges, excusing jurors without having to cite a cause.
• Whereas the latter had tended to deal with divisions through a process of avoidance or such extended discussion that unity was effected through boring dissidents into submission, his style was brusque and peremptory.
• French rhymester in his alley, and Silas in the valley of the shadow of death; perfect liberty, and a peremptory order to return in a week; — all illustrating one another. Uncle Silas
• Tom never disobeyed his father, for Mr. Tulliver was a peremptory man, and, as he said, would never let anybody get hold of his whip hand; but he went out rather sullenly, carrying his piece of plumcake, and not intending to reprieve Maggie's punishment, which was no more than she deserved. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
• He orders the witch to repel the charge of sorcery by the oath of sixteen women, so these jurywomen must have been often exposed to peremptory challenges.