The students are believed to have taken advantage of a loophole in legislation, allowing loan debts to be cancelled by bankruptcy. |
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The loophole that led to the collapse of the ban had escaped the gaze of the legal draftsmen, the Attorney General and the Cabinet. |
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The council promised to introduce new rules to close a loophole allowing people with such serious criminal pasts to drive cabs. |
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The Government has been accused of fostering a tax avoidance culture after it emerged that millions have been lost on a tax loophole. |
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This week, the German finance ministry hopes to close the village's tax loophole. |
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This classification provided a convenient loophole for vehicle manufacturers. |
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It wasn't that the government had left a legal loophole before 1974, whereby you could put a bomb in a pub and they couldn't touch you for it. |
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But the Wilson Act also left a loophole, in that it did not allow dry states to prohibit the importation of alcohol for personal use. |
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People in this country are ripping off the taxpayer, left, right, and centre, and this bill provides another loophole. |
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To close that loophole, the league takes any salary on long-term deals to be paid after age 36 and prorates it. |
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I think it is a loophole in the law because they are not prescribable products. |
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The concession should not be extended to SADC citizens as this would open a loophole for illegal aliens. |
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He has no right to appeal against deportation but under a legal loophole can appeal against the destination. |
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These weapons happened to be a loophole because they didn't have a pistol grip on the stock. |
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In any event, no serious artiste should want to enter any level of competition purely on the basis of a loophole or technicality. |
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The loophole means investors are left out in the cold if their broker misuses the money and goes bust. |
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Another loophole would permit hounds to drive hares into the talons of birds of prey. |
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He developed an international reputation by exploiting a loophole letting US companies cut their tax burden. |
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Everyone looks to take advantage of every loophole available when paying taxes, paying a traffic ticket, appearing for jury duty or whatever. |
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That loophole has been exploited by opportunist operators who produce watered-down spirits and market them as the real thing. |
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An additional loophole allows the Rules Committee to set standards for release of receipts. |
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The loophole in the rules effectively means that every season a couple of clubs have two chances to win the cup. |
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Now the government is set to plug the loophole in the law aimed at keeping drinkers off pavements and roadways. |
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My colleague has been in contact with the industry throughout the evening listening to its concerns, and he confirms that, in fact, there is a loophole. |
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The Crimeans are thus taking advantage of a loophole in the Constitution. |
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Residents say that the case has exposed a legal loophole because tough new police powers to move on travellers do not apply if they own plots of land. |
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There is that fishy loophole in the whole diluvial death wish. |
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This loophole opens the door to covert action and dirty tricks. |
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The nationwide store has ruthlessly exploited a legal loophole. |
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We can dress it up, paint it up or call it whatever, but it is a loophole one could drive a truck through. |
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This loophole is a premeditated measure to allow special access to special friends. |
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Mr. Kelly rejected the notion that the escaped prisoner exploited a possible loophole. |
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Tribalism is the biological loophole that many politicians have banked on for a long time: tapping into our fears and tribal instincts. |
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This is an initial step toward closing a loophole that allows roll-your-own cigarettes to be taxed at a lower rate than cigarettes. |
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That loophole has to be effectively addressed through severe measures in the national legislation of all countries. |
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The age of consent continues to be a legal loophole by which pedophiles are abusing our children. |
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Section 251 says abortion is a crime, but subsection 4 cunningly provides a loophole that will only get bigger with time. |
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Lloyd Grove talks to tax lawyers about the estate tax loophole presenting a powerful moral dilemma. |
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Their fears over Labour's proposed mansion tax had been allayed, and the tax loophole for non-doms had been preserved. |
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To prevent a potential and significant revenue loss, the bill closes a loophole involving the sale and lease back of intangibles such as trademarks and newspaper mastheads. |
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I have been badgering the government for years to plug that outrageous tax loophole. |
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There just happened to be a convenient tax loophole escape hatch for the former finance minister's company. |
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I can see why the former finance minister was loath to plug this outrageous tax loophole, but what about the current finance minister? |
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Our membership of the EU enables companies to avoid paying some UK taxes with impunity and we will close this loophole. |
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We've discovered there was a loophole that allowed migrants who no longer have a right to work here…. |
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It was essential to plug a legal loophole regarding the phase of use by professionals and private individuals. |
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Thanks to that loophole, the manufacturer avoided the normal price regulation. |
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It has been found that no competent commission actually exists, leaving a legal loophole, which could lead to numerous abuses. |
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This would at least have covered a significant loophole, which will again have to be addressed on a practical basis. |
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Now efforts are being made towards a new outer space treaty, with the purpose of plugging that loophole. |
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This arrangement provides SOMIKA with a loophole that enables it to protect itself from labour surpluses. |
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In addition, the legislation would close another loophole in the current framework which prevents information sharing. |
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This security loophole needs to be closed to protect the organization and the individuals. |
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The program never performed as intended and emerged as a costly tax loophole. |
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The other advantage of the change was that it broadened the scope of activity beyond direct combat activity and therefore closed a loophole. |
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Would it surprise you to learn there is a loophole in federal disclosure requirements? |
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So, has he merely and cleverly taken advantage of a loophole in the rules? |
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The new regulation closes a major loophole by extending customs law to include personal baggage, typically used in the small-scale traffic of counterfeit items. |
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Critics say the loophole leads for-profit schools to aggressively target veterans to draw additional federal funding. |
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Efforts to close the loophole have failed in Washington, but have gained momentum in the states. |
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Rep. John Conyers acknowledged the loophole, but insisted the bill should nevertheless move forward. |
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The loophole was approved by the White House and the departments of State and War. |
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Whether it was on a conscious or unconscious level, he found a loophole in sports media and nudged his story through it. |
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They often use the paperwork loophole to get themselves off the hook. |
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President John F. Kennedy, lionized by today's supply-siders for his 1963 tax cut, first proposed closing the deferral loophole 40 years ago, when it was a far smaller drain. |
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Guernsey loophole towers and a large collection of German fortifications with a number of museums. |
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This sort of loophole automatically overrides the wife's claim of disappearance because the husband can keep showing up once every year to claim before the court he is not missing. |
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Well, Piaggio has increased the distance between the front wheels and added a footbrake to get round a loophole in the law. |
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If Washington has already been condemned twice in this affair, it has always managed to find a loophole by voting new laws, adding new clauses to existing laws and, above all, using diplomacy. |
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I rise today to speak in support of the Liberal motion before us regarding a loophole in the Lobbyists Registration Act that makes it possible to get around the rules in that act. |
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Using tiny print to state the origin of blended oil is used as a legal loophole by manufacturers of adulterated and mixed olive oil. |
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But central Ontario organic farmer Michael Schmidt has tried beating a loophole in Ontario's law by inviting people to invest in co-owning a cow on his farm. |
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As long as the respective national regimes concerned do not deviate much, this evident loophole in the legal regimes does not necessarily lead to unfair competition. |
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The ART is therefore in a legal loophole and the reforms, the intention of which was to promote universal access and thus the economic and social development of the country, remain ineffective. |
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My bill will close the loophole that discriminately taxes unsuspecting rental car consumers. |
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Japan has continued killing thousands of minke and fin whales under a loophole that allows IWC members to kill whales for scientific research. |
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Ivory from the Government stockpile has been sold to Chinese traders, while unscrupulous dealers appear to have been exploiting the worked ivory loophole to ship out commercial size quantities. |
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Teaser image:Â Amnesty International is urging Timor-Leste to close a legal loophole that is allowing war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the 1975-1999 Indonesian occupation to go unpunished. |
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Because of this loophole, it is desirable for many drug traffickers and money launderers to utilize Belize as a money laundering banking entity. |
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For Ringnuts who may be alarmed by the new ticket policy, there is a modest loophole, discovered by Mr. Hardt. |
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And from CBC Winnipeg, a package of six stories exposing Winnipeg police force corruption, furnace repair fraud, seamy immigration practices, a federal tax loophole, and abuse of Indian band funds. |
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A legal loophole must not be created here, because the existing processing facilities produce hygienic feed which contributes neither to the spread of classical swine fever nor to that of foot and mouth disease. |
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Instead, we are bantering back and forth, and arguing over whether a tax loophole should exist or not exist, and whether there should be fairness in the taxation system. |
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The accountability with respect to the loans bill will close this last loophole in our election financing laws, ushering in a modern era of clean politics. |
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The omission of parliamentary secretaries from the list of designated public office holders is either a deliberately concocted loophole or a glaring omission that the government should be falling over itself to rectify. |
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The Liberals opposed that, not because they thought there was a loophole with respect to parliamentary secretaries, but because they thought the old revolving door of lobbying and cronyism that existed before was fine. |
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But a loophole has recently allowed one bottler to divorce itself from this system of inconsistent state and federal rules. |
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There is one item which is rather considerable, a tax expenditure which is the equivalent of a loophole in the taxation system with respect to lottery winnings. |
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He believed that the exclusionary rule, which disallows evidence improperly obtained by the police, had become a loophole that lawyers exploited to allow guilty clients to go free. |
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Japan has used a loophole in a 1986 global moratorium that allows lethal research on the mammals, but has made no secret of the fact that their meat ends up in restaurants and fish markets. |
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Tokyo has used a legal loophole in the 1986 ban on commercial whaling that allowed it to continue slaughtering the mammals, ostensibly so it could gather scientific data. |
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It's a nice thought, and I hope the civil service lives up to the dream, but my DfE experience is that if there's a transparency loophole, they'll use it. |
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Significantly, government officials attending the meeting agreed to take the first steps in closing the loophole to end unlimited use of the agricultural fumigant methyl bromide. |
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Most noticeably, it is the ability to avoid registering as a lobbyist to avoid reporting those meetings, something the Conservatives have become masters of through their self-regulated legal buffer and loophole. |
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We are giving real help to ships in distress to ensure that they are properly handled in emergency situations, closing a loophole in the safety chain. |
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There was a loophole in this wall, to let the light in, just at the height of a person's head, who was sitting near the chimney. |
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We recently had a representation from the CEP, formerly Canadian Paperworkers Union, about the fact that pulp mills are in desperate straits in this country because of a loophole in a tax in the United States. |
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A new Amnesty International report details how a legal loophole allows war crimes committed during the 1975-1999 Indonesian occupation to go unpunished. |
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I will be addressing the question that is on the minds of all Canadians: Was this loophole a maliciously brilliant scheme, or was it an incompetent oversight by the Prime Minister? |
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Since Mr. Sawatzky was found innocent, it would seem the government no longer has any authority to hold the trucks seized before the government quickly closed the loophole. |
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Does the will exist in the government to in fact close that loophole, to make right what is wrong today, to ensure that we never again have this situation Canadians face today. |
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I'm sorry that I don't even know where the loophole is, but what they found was that if they aired a news update or a news break before the commercial cluster, then the commercial cluster became Canadian content. |
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Surprisingly to some, the source of this troubling 527 loophole, and of other defects in our system of campaign finance regulation, is the FEC itself. |
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His attorney has been hunting for a loophole that would allow him to get out of the deal. |
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A loophole which allowed evasion of this tax was closed in the Education Act of 1646, which established a solid institutional foundation for schools on Covenanter principles. |
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He said the loophole will allow lobbyists to bankroll charity events, including freebies for invited lawmakers, while using the charities as fronts for influence peddling. |
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However, the law contains an exploited loophole that allows billboards to be put up in unzoned commercial and industrial areas, which are often rural. |
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