Loophole
loophole (noun) - imperfections in a law that allow legal experts to avoid and go around the law
tax loopholes
the law has loopholes
law carefully worded so that there are no loopholes
find loopholes
find all sorts of loopholes
lawyers find loopholes
a law full of loopholes
exploit loopholes in the law
plug the loopholes in the law
find the loopholes in the law
too many loopholes in the law
deficiencies and loopholes
close loopholes
close loopholes in the legislation
close loopholes in the law
a law riddled with loopholes
loopholes and anomalies in the law
loopholes in the regulations
security loopholes
legal loopholes
Example sentences: * "Taxes on share dealings, gold trading, large fortunes and even farm income spell the end of an era for Brazil's rich unless they find the loopholes."
* "This new law has too many loopholes to reassure nervous investors."
* "Banks are busily designing privately placed securities that exploit the many available tax loopholes."
* "It is not in keeping with the spiriti of the letter to escape through the loopholes which we have opened up through clever casuistry."
* "The agreement we just signed was full of loopholes. Ha, ha."
* "One by one the Association battled to end the loopholes in the regulations needed to protect the gullible shopper."
* "He claims security loopholes which allowed terrorists to plant the bomb are still open."
* "The existing law is riddled with loopholes and anomalies."
* "He also plugged three more loopholes exploited by companies."
* "And you know very well that as soon as you start to launch yourself into the world of contracting by, by its very nature a contract a a automatically has loopholes in it, and the more you write in a contract the more loopholes you've got."
* "We found, as professor Smith did 100 years ago in these very hallowed halls, the loopholes that could be exploited to state, or allege, that the victim was a prostitute was at least to imply past sexual relationships with other men."
* "The legal loopholes are many."
* "The fear is that if this term is well-defined, legal experts will exploit loopholes which, although within the letter of the law, are outwith its spirit."
* "Fortunately, many of these loopholes are now being closed by new amendments."
* "To lawyers the challenge became how to find loopholes in existing contracts."
* "Even with the legal penalties that exist, people go to great lengths to avoid paying taxes legally by finding loopholes in the tax laws or they evade taxes by illegally cheating the tax authorities."
* "Loopholes made enforcement of the law difficult."
* "These provisions had loopholes and proved technical and obscure with the result that enforcement was difficult."
* "Serious action to close the loopholes in the law will have to wait on the parliamentary timetable and the European legislation."
* The laws need to be modified so as to close the loopholes which certain members have exploited."
* "If Professor Bushwhack is correct in saying that a tax system breathes through its loopholes, the new tax system has been throttled at birth."
* "There are too many loopholes allowing poached ivory to be laundered into the legal trade and thence onto the open market."
* "Loopholes in the law even allowed landlords to profit from the rent subsidy programme."
* "In the United Kingdom legislation was introduced to close loopholes in immigration law."
* "Loopholes, omissions or ambiguities should not be exploited to gain an advantage."
* "Theis particular approach runs the risk of being too specific, resulting in purely technical rules, which miss the substance of the problem and/or create loopholes and inconsistencies."
* "The existing law is riddled with loopholes and anomalies."
* "Any loopholes in British-Irish extradition laws should be closed immediately."
* "With a court action pending, you may well be horrified to find what loopholes you left to the attack of a cross-examining Counsel."
* "Unless the new law is very, very, very carefully worded, the lawyers will find all sorts of loopholes."
* "Written business contracts can be searched for minute loopholes in the small print."
* "We will be expected to respond by making a serious attempt to plug tax loopholes before he talks of increases in general taxation."
* "Because the men were serving together in what was essentially a small box with loopholes for machine-guns, their morale was high, for they gave each other mutual psychological support." (Just testing you)
* "Glass crashed onto cobbles as soldiers bashed out window-panes to make crude loopholes for muskets."
* "In this way, it becomes obvious that even deregulated financial markets do not operate in a regulatory void, for caught up in the reshaping process is the need to tighten loopholes through new regulatory activity."
