Sentence examples similar to a peremptory command from inspiring English sources

"Not another baby is my peremptory command," wrote the leading feminist Susan B. Anthony in a letter from 1858 that is included in the show.

The relator applied to this court for a peremptory writ of mandamus to be directed to the judges of the circuit court of the District of Columbia commanding them to execute the judgment of that court by which Addison had been ousted, and the relator adjudged entitled to the office.

Holbrooke recalls that Milosevic opened the meeting with a peremptory demand: the American diplomat must put a stop to the NATO bombing raids that were ravaging the Bosnian Serbs Army command structure.

His remarks sometimes had a peremptory tone.

(The defense used a peremptory challenge to strike the juror).

It is not only women at work to whom Boris can act in a peremptory manner.

The Batson decision established a three-step process to challenge a peremptory strike as discriminatory.

I'm more like... ...... he adopts a peremptory bark – "'OK, here's the problem, this is what we gotta do'.

This brought him a peremptory order to return to Russia and, on his refusal, the loss of his passport.

Similarly, a defendant would be unable to make any contribution to a prosecutor's decision to exercise a peremptory challenge.

On November 28, 2000, we issued an order to show cause why a peremptory writ of mandamus should not issue.