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They seem to be using these incidents as a casus belli .

他们似乎是在把这些事件当作宣战的借口。

A trade war is brewing over solar panels but the casus belli looks shaky .

一场围绕太阳能面板的贸易战正在酝酿中，但开战的理由看起来却站不住脚。

But to our mind his casus belli still stands , despite the failure so far to find weapons of mass destruction .

尽管没有找到大规模杀伤性武器，但是我们还是认为他的宣战原因成立。

A country discovering a successfull assassination , supporting rebels or desecration of holy site now gets a casus belli against the offender .

某国如果在暗杀，支持叛乱分子或者玷污圣地的时候被发现，敌国会拥有宣战理由。

He was , in fact , on the verge of war with the pope , the casus belli being the revolt of Paul II 's grandsons against the new pope .

他，事实上，在战争的边缘与教宗，宣战正在反感保罗二世的孙子对新教皇。

A century ago the overwhelming majority of Britons supported the government 's argument that the German violation of Belgian neutrality was a legitimate casus belli - including my grandfather , who rushed to enlist .

一个世纪以前，英国政府认为德国侵犯比利时的中立性是一个合理的开战理由，支持政府的英国人占压倒性多数。其中也包括我的祖父，他当时立刻应征入伍。