| This feeling has been particularly pronounced in Poland, which after all had been the casus belli for the Second World War. |
| This must be the first example of casus belli being discovered after the war has ended. |
| The purpose was to provoke a response that could become a casus belli for invasion. |
| 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. |
| Modern wars require a pretext, a casus belli that can be packaged to the public as a sufficient justification for the resort to arms. |
| France countered by getting Russia to propose a general congress, intended to isolate Austria and provoke a casus belli. |
