('Occasion for war') is an act or event that provokes or is used to justify war.
1There was no longer pretension or pretext, nor was there occasion for war.
2People who have no occasion for war do not make any impression of being psychologically thwarted.
3The attempt of the Helvetii to leave their homes in the Alps for new dwelling-places in Gaul served him as an occasion for war.
4These were the occasions of its outbreak and extension; but national rivalries always exist and occasions for war are never wanting.
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