Sentence examples for peremptory terms from inspiring English sources

"In legal, if somewhat peremptory terms, it is none of their business," he said.

"In legal, if somewhat peremptory terms," the judge said of the complainants' request, "it is none of their business".

I open the Washington Post to find a leader criticising the new Hungarian government in the most peremptory and sweeping terms.

The legal term is "peremptory challenge".

I imagine a nurse picking up the phone to one of his grown-up kids in the middle of the night, and one of them groping for the light, minutes after having made love, and coming to terms with his death, vaguely aware that beginnings and endings are peremptory and undesigned, but held in balance; and all at once it strikes me that we're not self-starting either, are we?

His signature mode might be termed libertine realism: picturing bodies in ways that exaggerate — and intensify — peremptory sexual fascination.

During the June term of the court, Desha's lawyers used a number of peremptory challenges to again prevent the court from empaneling a jury.

This sad ghost, possessed by infant rage and an infant's absolute and peremptory need for love, manages to materialise herself just as Sethe is cautiously attempting to come to terms with the affection offered by Paul D, the only survivor of the six 'Sweet Home Men' who worked with her and loved her.

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

Half welcoming, half peremptory.

Peremptory silence no longer works.