| The purpose was to provoke a response that could become a casus belli for invasion. |
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| This must be the first example of casus belli being discovered after the war has ended. |
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| This feeling has been particularly pronounced in Poland, which after all had been the casus belli for the Second World War. |
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| While retaliatory war relies on the obvious fact of an attack as its casus belli, pre-emptive war opens the door to myriad other justifications. |
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| Modern wars require a pretext, a casus belli that can be packaged to the public as a sufficient justification for the resort to arms. |
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| France countered by getting Russia to propose a general congress, intended to isolate Austria and provoke a casus belli. |
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| This is because cultural heritage is the consensus and not the casus belli. |
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| German violation of the neutrality of Belgium, which since 1839 had been under the protection of the great powers, was for Britain the formal casus belli. |
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| It wants a proper casus belli established ahead of the fight. |
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| If a state launched it, it would be an obvious casus belli and the state officers could expect to meet the world's most powerful nation in all-out war. |
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| They cannot threaten a state of Europe with war, with a casus belli, while we talk about letting them in. |
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| Neither one of these, do I think, fall into the category that I would describe as threatening enough to be what I would describe as a casus belli. |
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| As the Romans liked a casus belli to justify their aggressive activities, it is not always possible to be certain about the real circumstances behind their intervention. |
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| While a united Korea's chosen alliances and alignments might matter greatly to the powers of the Pacific, they would probably not constitute a casus belli. |
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| Human rights, if they are to be considered a casus belli as over Kosovo, must be universally and consistently applied. |
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| A few days previously, the President of the Turkish National Assembly proposed the lifting of the casus belli. |
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| When it comes to counter-proliferation, should casus belli clauses be formulated beforehand? |
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| An islet with two goats makes a casus belli between two large nations. |
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| The Bastarnae provided the casus belli by crossing the Haemus and attacking the Dentheletae, a Thracian tribe who were Roman allies. |
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| Secondly, improve its relations with Greece, a Member State that supports its European prospects, for example, by removing the casus belli and putting a stop to its infringements in the Aegean once and for all. |
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| We shall not make a casus belli out of this matter, though. |
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| The casus belli in Darfur is not so much ethnic rivalry but competition for the region's land and resources, all of which has been exploited and manipulated for political interest. |
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| They serve as a casus belli for waging the battle for oil. |
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| Had Saddam taken only the Rumaila oil field and the Bubiyan and Warba islands, there would have been no casus belli. |
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| From there it made its way to President Wilson who released the Zimmermann note to the public, and Americans saw it as casus belli. |
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| Still, the resulting flag incidents were not the casus belli as in the previous war. |
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| Their realm became known as the Regnenses and the overthrow of one of them, Verica, was the casus belli used to justify the Emperor Claudius's invasion. |
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| When they are adopted by a state, they typically result in tensions, and actual attempts at annexation are always considered a casus belli, a cause for war. |
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| Philip had unsuccessfully asked Pope Celestine III to release him from his oath, was declined, forcing this caesar of France to build his own casus belli. |
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| The German invasion of Belgium on 4 August 1914, in violation of Article VII of the treaty, was the casus belli of the British government in declaring war on Germany. |
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| Edward started with Bartholomew of Badlesmere, and Isabella was sent to Bartholomew's stronghold, Leeds Castle, to deliberately create a casus belli. |
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