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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.

"I don't expect the president will say that this alone is casus belli," a cause for war, said one administration official.

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.

The following day, Peru responded by acknowledging the casus foederis.

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.

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

To Joyce, the assault upon him was the particular casus belli that determined his general view.

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.

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

Although the courts have not expressly said so, it may be more difficult to do anything for the casus omissus.

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.

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

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

Another work, "Casus Conscientiæ", was published after the author's death.

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

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

(There is no accepted name for the latter, but it may be called the casus male inclusus ).

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

Israel saw these actions as a casus belli.