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The assassination of the archduke was used as a casus belli to justify the outbreak of World War I.casus belli = event justifying war
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Economic sanctions imposed by one country on another can sometimes serve as a casus belli for military action.
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Perhaps we can prevent the establishment of a German naval base to the south not by declaring war on Turkey, which seems rather a roundabout way of doing it, but by informing the Germans that it would be casus belli.† (source)
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a pretty woman is a casus belli; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor.†
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