casus belli

In practice the access to water has been a casus belli for Israel.

The casus belli in each case is that humans are determined to live where they should not.

When neighbors go to war, noise is the No. 1 casus belli everywhere.

Any announcement that Iraq is not cooperating could be a casus belli.

And in the absence of a casus belli to rally international support, our forces would probably be fighting alone.

If Iraq refused them entry or tried to attack the soldiers, a casus belli would be created.

The supposed asssassination plot must not be used as a casus belli.

Peter considered this a casus belli, and prepared for open warfare against Denmark.

Also, a casus belli makes the war seem less threatening, reducing the impact on reputation.

This remarkable ambassador, I discovered, is the casus belli of her entire tribe.

They did this by creating yet another fiction, what Rome called the casus belli - the 'cause of war'.

"The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington," he said.

This was not the casus belli, but then a valuable source of saltpeter.

The casus belli for the Vietnam War was the second incident.

The Congress determined that the two countries should return to the status of casus belli of 1858.

Still, the resulting flag incidents were not the casus belli, as in the previous war.

Khamenei and other leaders have indicated that such an outcome would amount to a casus belli.

It is threatening Greece with casus belli and putting forward territorial claims.

Finally, you'd build up forces in the area, both to prepare for the strike and, if necessary, to provoke a casus belli.

Israel saw these actions as a casus belli.

However, the initial casus belli was claimed to be support for a Kuwaiti rebellion.

But you leave out our own casus belli."

Grey determined to ask the Cabinet next morning to regard such invasion as a formal casus belli.

This manufactured incident was then used as a casus belli for the Winter War.