Modifies a noun

• norm: No serious international lawyer would deny that the right of self-determination is a peremptory norm, indeed it is the pre-eminent example.. .

• order: Failure to comply with a peremptory order permits the courts to enforce the decision.

• return: She found for the father on both grounds, and ordered the peremptory return.

• challenge: The prosecution, of course, keeps its old right of unlimited peremptory challenge.

• manner: Moreover the peremptory manner in which this was done was unnecessarily provocative.

• dismissal: His bullish style of peremptory dismissals made compelling viewing, and I for one was glued to my TV.