preemptory

I no longer want to burn one of our limited preemptory challenges.

"We would like to have kept her on the jury, or at least forced you to waste a preemptory challenge," he says.

Then he made a preemptory motion with his gun.

His tone of voice made it clear that any such statement would be taken as grounds for a preemptory strike.

Do we burn a preemptory or leave her on?"

Does anyone doubt that what we are witnessing is a preemptory counter-revolution by the 1%?

There was a preemptory knock on the door.

"What about-" Kim's question was interrupted by a preemptory knock at the door.

She nodded at the charcoal pattern upon my hearth, pointing it out with that preemptory finger.

Every instinct told her not to give into such preemptory action, but if the auxiliary generators blew, they'd lose their last source of power.

A preemptory prod from one of them induced Aernath to follow him, still carrying the boy.

Anya's voice was cool, preemptory, and she turned with the last of her words and walked back toward the white silk tent.

The California Supreme Court declined to issue the preemptory writ.

Mr. Locordolos was very agitated at being halted in such a preemptory fashion.

His voice was cool and preemptory.

Kim shut his mouth, his brows drawing together at the doctor's preemptory tone.

She argued that we were still at the stage where we both felt as though our preemptory challenges were infinite.

Her command had been regal, preemptory - uttered in a tone and manner he had found completely irresistible.

As Lord Figg continued in his preemptory manner, James was forced to interrupt.

Had Sheeana spoken with preemptory command?

Mrs. Dewey's preemptory strike had been noticed by all; and General Miles looked very grim indeed.

For truth of mind is always relative, uncertain and partial, but this greater Truth is preemptory and whole.

Her preemptory tone left little doubt as to where the pudgy Brit ranked on Chrysalis's pecking order.

Metternich quickly overcame any opposition within the conference to his proposed "group of anti-revolutionary measures, correct and preemptory", though they were condemned by outsiders.

"What do you-" Kes appeared both stunned and disappointed by Kim's preemptory dismissal of The Doctor.