('Occasion for war') is an act or event that provokes or is used to justify war.
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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.
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There was something vastly convincing in Jake Pratt's quiet drawl as he set forth the cause for war.
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It would be cause for war.
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Laurence was silent, thinking of Temeraire's willingness to spring out a cause for war and all for his sake.
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Of these grievances the last two had not up to this time been put forward as cause for war.
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To speak of roasting a Samoan chief is a deadly insult and a cause for war (Turner, 108).
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He said that, although we had doubtless suffered many wrongs, there was more cause for war with France than with England.
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But stop-without going out of one's way to find a cause for war-didnot North America once belong to the English?
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No less high-handed than Great Britain's were Napoleon's offenses against American commerce, and there was just cause for war with France.
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He would not be drawn on whether Israel would see as a cause for war any possession by Hezbollah of Syrian-supplied Scuds.
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If there were no such possessions, or if they were more equally divided, there would be very little cause for war amongst nations.
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The Chinese and the Afghans did not find her very forbearing, though with neither of those peoples had she any just cause for war.