What is "bellus"

Usage examples of "bellus".

While these may not constitute casus belli, they certainly help us to build the case that Iraq is an outlaw state whose actions regularly violate international law and endanger its neighbors and other countries outside the region.

This is one of the great problems with those who want to use a new inspection regime to justify war on Iraq--in the expectation that Iraq would block the inspectors and so furnish Washington with a legitimate casus belli.

Bush, how many new Pontiacks may even now be raising forces, planning assaults, perhaps in the Market for a couple of English Surveyors to style a casus belli and publickly torture before putting to death, yaagghh!

Cortando en seco los adioses, que siempre duelen, me tiré del carro como pude y gané el zaguán para evitar un casus belli con el extenuado.

Washington recognized the danger immediately: Israel would likely see any movement of Iraqi troops into Syria as a casus belli.

As with WMD, he seems to recognize that a terrorist attack on the United States under current circumstances would only give Washington a casus belli to employ military force to remove his regime.

Saddam is probably being careful not to get involved in a new terrorist operation for fear of providing the United States with just such a casus belli.

Israel because this could furnish the casus belli that he knows we would be looking for.

Israel would likely see any movement of Iraqi troops into Syria as a casus belli.

Iraq would block the inspectors and so furnish Washington with a legitimate casus belli.

The Forest life ever presenting Mystery to them, too much going on, night and day, behind ev'ry Trunk, beneath ev'ry Bush, how many new Pontiacks may even now be raising forces, planning assaults, perhaps in the Market for a couple of English Surveyors to style a casus belli and publickly torture before putting to death, yaagghh!

They looked doubtful whether to take what had been said as a casus belli or not, but they wanted a pretext of some kind or other.

If he suspected the channel through which it had reached the little community, and, spreading from that centre, the country round, he did not see fit to make out of his suspicions a domestic casus belli.

Then they sat down to a three-cornered game of 'cut-throat,'--a proceeding which did away with all casus belli for future hostilities, and permitted the victor to depart on a most important mission.

Seward, that double-dealing sneak, had sent word South that the seizure of the Federal fort would not be a casus belli, and that secession would be met with acquiescence.