Urban environments can certainly elicit involuntary attention (honking horns in Times Square), but they do so in a harsh, peremptory way that requires voluntary attention to override.
It might easily have been argued that Abstract Expressionist works are hostile to the spirit of liberal democracy, that they reflect a totalitarian aesthetics — monumental, peremptory constructions that make us feel our insignificance.
This, regrettably, is the sort of peremptory judgment that holds liberalism back (just as the conservative equivalent, with its fixation on Reagan-era doctrines and its incantation of old pieties, binds the Republican Party in a kind of intellectual aspic).
Jus cogens (Latin: "compelling law") rules are peremptory norms that cannot be deviated from by states; they possess a higher status than jus dispositivum (Latin: "law subject to the dispensation of the parties"), or normal international rules, and can be altered only by subsequent norms of the same status.
Mr. Kelley's lawyers had argued that the Stamford Superior Court judge presiding over his trial, Kevin Tierney, had improperly denied their initial efforts to remove four potential jurors from the jury pool, forcing them instead to use valuable peremptory challenges that allow lawyers to dismiss jurors they deem unacceptable.
Now, lawyers can dismiss potential jurors "for cause" (for reasons like being biased or related to the defendant), or use one of a handful of "peremptory" challenges that don't require a reason for dismissal.
How much Aydin can or should be identify with is a question at the heart of the piece, since while he makes some defensible points, he also has a peremptory air that keeps him at arm's length from our sympathy and makes us ask questions about both his motives and our own.
As controversial as this Kirkuk scheme has been, the KPA's recently signed oil concession with the U.S. based Hunt Oil company has been criticized even by the U.S. as a peremptory act that threatens Iraqi Constitutional reform on oil distribution, and deepens fissures within Iraq's governing coalition.
But Mr Milburn told the home secretary, in a remarkably peremptory tone, that he must not claim that an additional 5,000 police officers were being recruited.
Velázquez kept extending his second trip, despite Philip's increasingly peremptory orders that he come home.
