Further, if it is true that the government of Lon Nol did not know in advance about the American & South Vietnamese offensive, the attack clearly appears to be a violation-or, at best, a peremptory alteration-of the so-called "rules of engagement".
The bias was manifested in the prosecutors' use of peremptory strikes of prospective jurors during the jury selection process.
The caustic, peremptory tone of much of his writing is intended to wake us up.
She is both things at different times and she has strongly held opinions which, as in the case of her peremptory dismissal of Kenneth MacMillan, verge on the chauvinistic.
The commission emphasized the concept of serious breaches of obligations arising under a peremptory norm of international law (i.e., the rules of jus cogens, or those deemed essential for the protection of fundamental international interests).
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.
Just as the hype in 1999 and early 2000 was hugely exaggerated, so is the gloom of today, with its increasingly common, peremptory dismissal of the Internet.
The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties provides (Article 53) that a treaty will be void if, at the time of its conclusion, it conflicts with a peremptory norm of general international law.
And the peremptory banishment of the Furies by a newer breed of eloquent, more sophisticated gods, suggests that the Oresteia represents not only the civilised world's first court to investigate homicide, but also its first great miscarriage of justice.
In the past year, the archbishop has earned the affection of many priests who bristled under the sometimes peremptory style of Cardinal Egan.
