Sentence examples for peremptory demand from inspiring English sources

In the fall of 1916 his intention to present the emperor Nicholas II with a peremptory demand for reform became known, and Alekseyev was suspended from duty.

The spectacle flopped in New York...Like Gordon, but in ways that are less complacently mandarin, several young English video artists are addressing the ever more peremptory demand of our time that art justify itself as entertainment.

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.

1936 'Resist Japan, Cantonn Says A peremptory demand to the central government at Nanking to cease dilly-dallying with Japanese military authorities in North China and adopt a stronger policy toward Tokio was made today [June 2] by the Southwest Political Council at Canton.

18], the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, and his Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, will consult with the French Premier, Edouard Daladier, and his Foreign Minister, Georges Bonnet, about the proper answer to be given to Chancellor Adolf Hitler's peremptory demand that the Sudeten German areas of Czechoslovakia be annexed to the Reich with or without a plebiscite.

This conception is, on the one hand, too weak, since it treats the fact that I have settled on doing A as just one consideration among many in favour of doing it, whereas means-end coherence is a strict or peremptory demand.

Rupert replied, not in person but through Goring, with a peremptory demand for Newcastle to march his forces to Rupert's assistance on the following morning.

A sensitive, thoughtful dialogue with China, rather than peremptory demands, is essential.