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• r  in an imperative and commanding manner

• All are men, all are dressed in identically sober suits, all are dismissive of women including Vikki, whom they peremptorily ask to get them coffee.
• To each of its 10,000 members the American Federation of Actors said peremptorily last week: Thou shalt not crack wise about the WPA, on pain of fine or suspension.
• Declared plump Governor Meyer: "I would not want to be peremptorily ordered to run 100 yards in ten seconds flat.

• imperatively

News & Articles

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• Sony Says So Long to CMO, Brings in New Talent
  That's show business. After a disappointing bummer of a summer at the box office, Sony Pictures has reportedly peremptorily ousted its marketing chief Marc Weinstock.
  Sept. 25, 2013 - DMNews

Quotes

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• James Madison in Tenth Amendment Center (blog)
  James Madison wrote in his Virginia Resolves of 1798 "That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government, as resulting from the compact, to which the states are parties; as limited by the...
• Clarence Thomas in Christian Science Monitor
  For nearly 20 years now, Miller-El has contended that prosecutors peremptorily struck potential jurors on the basis of race,Justice Thomas writes. "In that time, seven state and six federal judges have reviewed the evidence and found no...
• Alessandra Stanley in National Review Online
  I asked the Vice President to take the chair and rule on points of order - which I and other senators would raise - making various motions and quorum calls dilatory under cloture and peremptorily ruling amendments out of order on their face, (for... Robert Byrd http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGGKFm_-9PSn2ZmPEi_IcQh8SrfSw Roll Call (subscription) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.rollcall.com/news/43908-1.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFMyO_22vqV9QWkoW7nGimTF9SNAA Mar 5, 2010 73490 98391 peremptory Alessandra Stanley writes, Lately her image has grown downright scary: America's girl next door has morphed into the mercurial diva down the hall. At the first sound of her peremptory voice and clickety stiletto hells, people dart behind doors and...