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Meanings of casus belli in English
('Occasion for war') is an act or event that provokes or is used to justify war.
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Examples for "occasion for war"
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There was no longer pretension or pretext, nor was there occasion for war.
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People who have no occasion for war do not make any impression of being psychologically thwarted.
3
The attempt of the Helvetii to leave their homes in the Alps for new dwelling-places in Gaul served him as an occasion for war.
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These were the occasions of its outbreak and extension; but national rivalries always exist and occasions for war are never wanting.
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His voice came faint: 'Darujhistan would consider that an act of war.'
2
A deliberate invasion, a deliberate act of war, was something else entirely.
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This first act of war, for some curious reason, caused no excitement.
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The North has said it would consider any interception an act of war.
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North Korea considers the South Korean broadcasts tantamount to an act of war.
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Even if we condemn the doings of the Greater-Serbian Nationalists, still the wicked war-provocation of the Austro-Hungarian Government calls forth the most stinging protest.
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The violation of property rights by Germany as a cause for war.
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Monsieur, under all circumstances there would be cause for war between us.
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He knew nothing of my new cause for war; there was enough of the old!
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Out of this had grown the principal cause for war in the history of the realm.
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They might bluster, and still not fight; and indeed they lack any rational cause for war.
Usage of casus belli in English
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All I say is that as it stands it is a casus belli.
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The very existence of that document is almost a casus belli.
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In both cases the casus belli was the disputed right to grievously offend, specifically Muslims.
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Like many disputes, the row is really about something other than the declared casus belli.
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Clinton, there is a chronic casus belli between us, the original spring of which antedates my memory.
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You're the casus belli of the dispute.
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The outrage was a casus belli such as no self-respecting people could ignore; so ran the popular verdict.
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They cannot form a casus belli.
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The building of a war vessel or the boring of a gun must be regarded as a casus belli.
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Then, in case of such special edict, Martha Biggs should go, and thence should arise the new casus belli.
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Uncle Sam is in an ugly humor and will suffer no legitimate casus belli to be side-tracked by arbitration.
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Here Sir Edward Grey says: "We were considering... whether we should declare violation of Belgian neutrality to be a casus belli."
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The counterintuitive idea that you can travel downwind faster than the wind is casus belli for aerodynamic arguments from internet forums to college classrooms.
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This was put as a reasonable possibility, and as a simple and pleasant method of establishing a casus belli that might satisfy Done's ridiculous punctilio.
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"We haven't any casus belli."
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