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Topic: Casus belli


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  Casus belli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Casus belli is a modern Latin language expression meaning the justification for acts of war.
The official casus belli of the Soviet Union for attacking Finland in the Winter War was the shelling of Mainila.
In 1995, the Turkish parliament issued a "casus belli" against Greece for the event that the latter extends her territorial waters from 6 to 12 nautical miles from the coast.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Casus_belli   (1482 words)

  
 Casus Belli - LoveToKnow 1911
CASUS BELLI, the technical term for cases in which a state holds itself justified in making war, if a certain course to which it objects is persisted in.
Interference with the full exercise of a nation's rights or independence, an affront to its dignity, an unredressed injury, are instances of casus belli.
These may therefore be considered as a sort of definition of casus belli in so far as the high contracting parties to them are concerned.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Casus_Belli   (118 words)

  
 Casus belli
Casus belli is a Latin expression generally used to indicate the act or fact which can become cause for a war.
Like for many Latin expressions, this one too is sometimes used not properly by politicians or journalists for instrumental purposes, while it is more often correctly found in historical works, when describing ex post those events which effectively led to a war.
Today casus belli is also used to indicate a genre of role games[?] and computer wargames.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ca/Casus_belli.html   (126 words)

  
 Casus Belli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
CASUS BELLI is still quite an unknown band, so taking it into consideration, could you please tell us about how it all began?
The question is, what fl metal is? The point is that CASUS BELLI has grown out from fl metal tradition and ethos, but it is obvious, that we sound in a totally different way than pure BM bands do.
The guitars in CASUS BELLI are played in death metal way, and they also this way.
www.rusmetal.ru /vae_solis/casusbelli.html   (1804 words)

  
 Iran and Bird Flu: The Perfect Casus Belli? - by Jorge Hirsch
casus belli against Iran is about to be unveiled.
HIV virus suddenly mutated into a form where it was transmitted by casual contact or even worse, through the air?
Simply because the H5N1 disaster scenario lends itself to a casus belli against Iran.
www.antiwar.com /orig/hirsch.php?articleid=8701   (2268 words)

  
 No Life 'til Metal - CD Gallery - Casus Belli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Casus Bellic are absolutely reliving the glory of 1980's traditional heavy metal but manage to do so without sounding stale or being a clone.
Rather, Casus Belli have more in common with bands like October 31, Twisted Tower Dire and Primal Fear.
Casus Belli are an almost perfect blend of power metal and speed metal.
www.nolifetilmetal.com /casusbelli.htm   (246 words)

  
 Casus Belli - AOL Music
Casus belli is a modern Latin language expression meaning the justification...
"Casus belli" is also pronounced this way since the term does in practice...
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music.aol.com /artist/casus-belli/310460/main   (131 words)

  
 BestLatin.net Proverbia - Latin Proverbs: Casus Belli
In an extremely informative BBC article about the origins of Hezbollah, I was surprised to find the use of the Latin phrase casus belli.
Another casus belli cited by Hezbollah is the continued detention of prisoners from Lebanon in Israeli jails.
As readers of this blog know, I'm interested in the Latin words and phrases that have become part of the English language while still retaining their Latin morphology (as here, where belli is genitive singular).
latin.bestmoodle.net /index.php/proverbia/2006/07/17/casus_belli   (323 words)

  
 Casus Belli - May 16, 2006 - The New York Sun
Casus Belli - May 16, 2006 - The New York Sun
An attack of this magnitude on American soil would be a casus belli and trigger an American retaliation.
Yet because these deaths took place in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza and because they happen a few at a time, somehow the Iranians seem to have escaped the brunt of the consequences.
www.nysun.com /article/32827   (504 words)

  
 Big Lizards:Blog:Entry “Casus Belli Against Iran!”
If true, then as John Hinderaker notes, this is clearly an act of war by Iran against the United States.
And, the lizards respond, the perfect casus belli whenever we choose to launch a military assault on that awful country.
Casus Belli is not a term that far too many don't understand.
biglizards.net /blog/archives/2006/03/casus_belli_aga.html   (606 words)

  
 A.Word.A.Day -- casus belli
An action or event that causes or is used to justify starting a war.
[From New Latin casus belli, from Latin casus (occasion), belli, genitive of bellum (war).]
"Education, both secondary and tertiary, remains a battleground, though the casus belli seems to be more about funding than egalitarianism." Stan Heyl; Class War - The Struggle Goes On; The Independent (London, UK); May 19, 2001.
wordsmith.org /words/casus_belli.html   (137 words)

  
 MilBlogs (Daily Archive)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
If the state of Israeli was moved to Kansas, would it solve the Israeli-Palestian conflict?
Then there is the million dollar question, if the Casus Belli for a conflict is the need for conflict, how does one resolve the conflict?
USS Texas (SSN 775) officially joined the fleet on Saturday during a ceremony featuring the Ship's Sponsor, First Lady Laura Bush.
www.mudvillegazette.com /milblogs/2006/09/11   (666 words)

  
 WMD, Logic, and Our Casus Belli in Iraq
WMD, Logic, and Our Casus Belli in Iraq
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And as one of the professionals you pay to study these matters (although I again emphasize I am speaking only for myself here), my judgment is that it was good policy then…and it’s good policy now.
journals.aol.com /jbellsworth/EINS/entries/2004/12/31/wmd-logic-and-our-casus-belli-in-iraq/677   (921 words)

  
 Casus Belli
The words "not a casus belli" caught my eye yesterday.
They appeared in a White House press release.
Of course, if they fail, then Silver will likely rise in price as it comes to be perceived, once again, as a Precious Metal.
www.gold-eagle.com /editorials_02/bloom120902.html   (1909 words)

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