How To Use Peremptory In A Sentence
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Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical.
Act V. Scene I. Love’s Labour’s Lost
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We invite the Tribunal to make a peremptory order in respect of those matters.
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peremptory commands
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Still, despite its huge technological advances, its survival continues to rely on peremptory policing of the West Bank, on an ever-advancing shield of antimissile technology, and on the unswerving commitment of the U.S.
The Economic Case for Supporting Israel
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Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behavior vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical.
Love’s Labour ’s Lost
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The word peremptory means “precluding a right to debate;” the dismissals are called peremptory challenges because the opposing attorney normally cannot challenge them.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Peremptory Challenges and Unanimous Juries:
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There was a morsel of pity outgleaming from Sophie's eyes, as she went to obey a somewhat peremptory call.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862
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Considering that you fill a responsible judicial office, and have to leave behind you a name unsullied by any blot or stain, I think you ought to lose no time in offering, as I believe you can truly do, a public and peremptory contradiction to the allegations in question.
An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition
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Dr Barbara was able to switch from peremptory schoolmistress to doting mother in a way that always disarmed him.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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At its frequent rise and fall you would say that they swinge and belabour me after the manner of a probationer, posed and put to a peremptory trial in the examination of his sufficiency for the discharge of the learned duty of a graduate in some eminent degree in the college of the Sorbonists.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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So we're right to be unmoved to anger or even peremptory indignation.
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A programme of counselling and strict supervision of the future behaviour, accompanied by a fine or suspension, would have better fitted the crime than the peremptory expulsion and removal of the men's livelihoods.
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Either party may challenge any juror either for cause or peremptorily and each party shall have three peremptory challenges.
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So fierce is his gaze, so peremptory his order, that even the shoppers forget the cold for a moment and stare in undisguised curiosity at the man with the red hackle.
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What the police need, she once said in that peremptory way of hers, is ‘support not criticism’.
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Olivia , curious to see who this peremptory messenger might be , desired he might be admitted.
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The sounds of the erhu and sheng are eerily beautiful against the symphony orchestra, evoking a timeless, ceremonial atmosphere against which the outbursts of percussion feel peremptory, even ill-mannered.
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Hopkins's whole letter manifests a desire to take what Freud thought he was doing (being inductive à la John Stuart Mill, correlating hypotheses with therapeutic outcomes, etc.) as sufficient evidence of his actual procedures, which were aprioristic and peremptory in the extreme.
The Unknown Freud: An Exchange
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His notion of keeping sacred the dignity of domestic life is to issue peremptory orders that the grandfather is to get up at five in the morning and do dumb-bell exercises, or the grandmother to march twenty miles to a camp to procure a Swastika flag.
Vintage Distributism
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The King sent to the Lords more peremptoryly, and they, with much grumbling, agreed to the rasure.
Andrew Marvell
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He can be extremely peremptory and dismissive at a seminar, disallowing questions that he thinks can divert the drift of the discourse or introduce an inappropriate idiom into it.
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Quite right - but that's because there's no history of discrimination against left-handers, whereas the practice of using peremptory challenges and other devices to keep blacks off juries is older than Jim Crow and a continuing problem.
Balkinization
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John Stuart Mill wrote in 1861 that it was "required by first principles that the receipt of parish relief [welfare] should be a peremptory disqualification for the franchise.
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spoke in peremptory tones
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a symptom of contumacity or an evidence of my being cowed by his peremptory manner.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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But, you say, The exercise of that peremptory is not based on any impermissible ground (i.e., race, gender etc.)
Discourse.net: Should Prosecutors Hire Jury Consultants?
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The appeal is scheduled for March 10th, peremptory to the Appellant, with or without counsel.
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unappropriated," would be occupied by happy and contented settlers, who had laboured for years to build up their homes, only to discover that their titles were worthless, and to receive peremptory notice to quit.
Whirligigs
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a peremptory decree
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The clause, when satisfied, is peremptory, done without debate, and Congress has no option in the matter.
Think Progress » Religious Right Seeks Unprecedented Constitutional Convention To Ban Gay Marriage Without Congress
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His casual and peremptory dismissal of these concerns as ‘wild accusations’, once again, does him and the organization for which he speaks no credit.
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When I told her there were plenty, she went off to look herself, and came back and told me in a peremptory tone that 'she had looked and there was not a single bogue there!'
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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The provisions of international law prohibiting torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment are among the most serious obligations placed on any state; the prohibition of torture in particular has the status of a peremptory norm of international law that can never be derogated and is imposed independent of whether a state is party to any particular treaty.
Prevention of Torture - A Lot Still Needs to be Done
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a swaggering peremptory manner
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Other than the preliminary vetting by the trial judge, there is a challenge for cause, peremptory challenges and the oath of the juror.
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Alaric had faithfully asserted the just pretensions of the republic to the provinces which were usurped by the Greeks of Constantinople: he modestly required the fair and stipulated recompense of his services; and if he had desisted from the prosecution of his enterprise, he had obeyed, in his retreat, the peremptory, though private, letters of the emperor himself.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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His peremptory tone of voice irritated everybody.
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The problem is that many will jump to the conclusion that the disparity in peremptory strikes by race is due to racial bias on the part of prosecutors.
Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » THE JURY IS OUT
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He hesitated and grew pale with anger, called the usher and gave him his card, with a few peremptory words, and slowly sat down.
The Souls of Black Folk
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As their issue is not peremptory, and the aggregate cannot exceed the surplus revenue or sinking fund, there is no danger of an overissue, while their existence among the people will be the best reserve when gold alone becomes the full standard of value.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
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One peremptory glance at me and my one tremulous moment of truth had been rejected.
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While the plaintiff has not acted expeditiously in this case, I am not prepared to find that the default is intentional and contumelious, that is, in deliberate contravention of a peremptory order of the court.
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I'd walked up and down the streets of Avarua, trying all of the coffee shops and, reluctantly, conceded that my very peremptory hostel manager was right in pointing out that this one was the best.
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Human rights and peremptory norms of international law must be observed, and legal obligations toward third states must be respected.
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[2849] Hellebore will help, but not alway, not given by every physician, &c. but these men are too peremptory and self-conceited as I think.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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a nonracial reason for the peremptory challenge of the juror
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The young woman was not in the least bit cowed down by her mother-in-law's peremptory ways, nor by our presence.
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John Stuart Mill wrote in 1861 that it was "required by first principles that the receipt of parish relief [welfare] should be a peremptory disqualification for the franchise.
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She ached to challenge it, to challenge him, to take exception to his peremptory dictates.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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It points out that the revenues have not been expended for the purposes for which they were levied -- "_on appert clairement, que les dictes finances ne sont point employées à choses dessus dictes_," etc. -- and it closes this its review with the peremptory demand: "_Item, et il fault savoir, où est cette finance," -- "Now, we have a right to know what has become of these funds.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle
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His peremptory tone of voice irritated everybody.
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Page 67 good people of the town, aware of his pertinacity in this particular, had no mind to make points with him, but, on the contrary, rather corroborated him in his dogmatism by an amiable assentation; so that, it is said, he grew daily more peremptory.
Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
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Peremptory challenges allow a lawyer to dismiss a small number of potential jurors from the jury pool without giving a reason.
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However, as my commander was absolute, his orders peremptory, and my obedience necessary, I resolved to avail myself of a philosophy which hath been of notable use to me in the latter part of my life, and which is contained in this hemistich of Virgil: — — — Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est.
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
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We speak of these changes with a peremptory kind of definiteness, as if they had covered no more than the space of a few years.
On Compromise
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The letter was peremptory in tone.
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In a trial, each side has a limited number of opportunities to rule out potential jurors without stating a reason for it—these are called peremptory challenges.
Living Justice
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And beauty, as a term signifying (like health) an indisputable excellence, has been a perennial resource in the issuing of peremptory evaluations.
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Disobedience to a peremptory order of the court would be sufficient to satisfy the first condition.
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With a brief, almost peremptory gesture he pointed to a chair.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Then each side can exercise 23 peremptory challenges, excusing jurors without having to cite a cause.
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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.
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Human rights and peremptory norms of international law must be observed, and legal obligations toward third states must be respected.
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Dr Barbara was able to switch from peremptory schoolmistress to doting mother in a way that always disarmed him.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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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
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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
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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 Maggies punishment, which was no more than she deserved.
V. Tom Comes Home. Book I—Boy and Girl
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Nevertheless Ishmael noticed that the ship's captain looked anxious and gave his orders in short, peremptory tones.
Self-Raised
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The tone of Bunglawala's letter is a composite of the unctuous, the peremptory and the ugly. sean cowen
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Same peremptory announcements forbidding any movement around the cabin during meal times were made at regular intervals.
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It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love, -- this hunger of the heart, -- as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
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It is impossible to imagine the uproar that such peremptory and contemptuous words from him would provoke.
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It has inspired Kant with a peremptory refutation of "empiricist" theories of knowledge.
Evolution créatrice. English
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A certain strain of feminist theory has picked up on this line of criticism, identifying the peremptory and rigidifying discourse of rights with the confrontational masculine
Rights
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She was highly critical of the insensitive and peremptory way in which the cases had been handled.
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In Bes'z the word "right" is polysemic enough to evade the peremptory meaning he intended.
'The City & The City'
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To put it in religious language, the scientist is answerable to a very stern and peremptory magisterium, the magisterium of Nature herself.
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But she became too demanding and, if never a bore, tedious and peremptory in her behaviour.
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She had already moved on, issuing strict and peremptory commands to everyone in their party.
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The exercise of that peremptory is not based on any impermissible ground (i.e., race, gender etc.)
Discourse.net: Should Prosecutors Hire Jury Consultants?
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The next day his peremptory order to the authorities to send the irregulars home was obeyed with alacrity, and this should have been the end of the matter.
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At the first sound of her peremptory voice and click of the stiletto heels, people dart behind doors and douse the lights.
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That phrase was just addressed to me (by a teacher) in a very peremptory manner.
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The prohibition against torture has become one of only four or five "peremptory norms" in international law -- norms that apply to all states and which cannot be derogated from by any state, for any reason.
Craig Martin: The Fallacies of the Torture Debate
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He'd found the tile in the lowest part of the broken ditch, his shovel ringing against it as he made a few peremptory thrusts into the broken soil.
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This is a question I put to you all and to the international community, and I await a peremptory answer.
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As Lily Garland, Anne Heche suggests a B-movie starlet rather than a peremptory diva.