Sentence examples for peremptory action from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately for China and for the Manchu dynasty, conservative opposition was supported by the empress dowager Cixi, who took prompt and peremptory action to stop the reform movement.

Ariel Sharon, a leading cabinet hardliner, was quick to declare that peremptory action by the prime minister could bring down the government.The one gleam of hope was a report that Mrs Albright had persuaded the Israelis and Syrians after a few hours spent in Damascus on September 13th to meet in Washington for "talks about talks".

First, he is an axeman, hewing cold cuts from the midriffs of selected villains, and, second, he is a funnyman, slicing through the loftiness of the enterprise with his peremptory vows of action.

The peremptory and broad nature of the actions required by the ruling are troubling as well.

We will not make any peremptory decisions, nor will we take actions that might impact negatively on Rockefeller research in the long term.

These duties are not articulated as peremptory duties that companies "must" engage in, but as actions they "should" undertake.

Further, the wrongfulness of a state action is precluded if the act is required by a peremptory norm of general international law.

Half welcoming, half peremptory.

Peremptory silence no longer works.

His remarks sometimes had a peremptory tone.

The legal term is "peremptory challenge".