Similar words: rebellion, bellicose, labelling, embellish, rebellious, belligerent, rebelliously, belligerence. Meaning: n. an event used to justify starting a war.
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1 Intriguing Casus Belli system, where wars have specific goals from start to finish.
2 The casus belli is the government's plan, announced earlier this year, to make public-sector staff work longer and pay more for their pensions.
3 But to our mind his casus belli still stands, despite the failure so far to find weapons of mass destruction.
4 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia are killed in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist young man: Gavrilo Princip , the casus belli of World War I.
5 A country discovering a successfull assassination, supporting rebels or desecration of holy site now gets a casus belli against the offender.
6 WITH a flourish, Russia this week recognised the "independence" of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the enclaves that gave it a casus belli for its war on Georgia .
7 He was, in fact, on the verge of war with the pope, the casus belli being the revolt of Paul II 's grandsons against the new pope.
8 WITH a flourish, Russia this week recognised the “independence” of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the enclaves that gave it a casus belli for its war on Georgia (see article).
9 Washington should make clear to the North that sales to non-state actors would be a casus belli; no amount of money received would be worth the resulting risk.
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