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Sentence Examples Animal-rights activists are exploiting loopholes that, for example, prevent the use of extortion law unless the extorter seeks personal gain. Many of the same tax loopholes that lead to inequity are also economically inefficient, even harmful. Despite stringent laws there is ample scope for improvement as there are a number of loopholes in the existing set-up. It looked more like a castle than a railhead, with solid stone walls pierced by tiny loopholes. Given these giant loopholes, the judge struck the law down as serving no rational purpose. A lack of specificity becomes an issue when they decline to identify any of the tax loopholes they propose closing. Like the police checkposts en route, most farmsteads are fortified with high walls and loopholes. And even schools that participate can use huge loopholes to circumvent rules. As with any other enterprise, they may well find that eliminating inefficiency and closing loopholes opens the path to the pot of gold. According to the tax expert, accountancy and banking advisers are engaged in a continuous contest of spotting and exploiting tax loopholes. I have certainly bent the rules, or found loopholes to use to my advantage. Many viruses have exploited loopholes in commonly used web browsers and email software to increase their chances of spreading effectively. However, if officials sometimes don't want to release certain information, they can still find loopholes in the new rules. And I have specific proposals that include ending tax loopholes and tax shelters that will help address the budget deficit. The governor also said laws are under review to preclude ambiguity and to close loopholes allowing suspects to evade arrest. For more than a hundred years legal loopholes have allowed thousands of couples to annul their marriages. This next phase would build on existing measures to clamp down on the grey economy and close the loopholes allowing for tax evasion. Tax preparers who claim they can wipe out your tax bill by exploiting hidden tax loopholes are usually con artists. However, having your will reviewed by a good attorney guards against loopholes in the document that could invalidate the will in your state. The sharpies who run these corporations found loopholes in our laws that allow them to dodge paying the taxes they rightfully owe. Show More Sentences Someone bent on fraud will always find a way through the regulatory loopholes. It is not that the statute has a penumbral spirit which strikes down devices or stratagems designed to avoid its terms or exploit its loopholes. There are already strict controls in place but these need to be tightened and loopholes need to be closed. I know there are a lot of loopholes for these people to make use of and to make money. Congress carved out loopholes for charities, politicians, and their paid fund-raisers. But even the revised measure is riddled with loopholes for charities, businesses, and political fund-raisers. In spite of widespread statutory reform, legal loopholes gaped wide open at midcentury. That would eliminate some of the loopholes exploited by large, wealthy factory farms. These people also know how to exploit legal loopholes and can often avoid official inspections. Identify the loopholes, which facilitate the persistency of corruption in Uganda and generate strategies to address them. The role of government is to deal with those loopholes that are unfair and allow for income to be hidden and taxes to be avoided. These amendments would also close loopholes and prevent misrepresentation, which ends up costing all taxpayers. Cults also shamelessly use defamation, resort to intimidation, and take advantage of legal loopholes where these exist. The use of this language opens up loopholes that would allow for multiple contradictions and vagaries. In July 2013, the U.S. and the European Union tightened loopholes on a ban on gold exports to Iran. In the XIVth century, a round tower with loopholes and machicolation was added. Grandfather clauses and loopholes also make it very difficult to evaluate the impact of such prohibitions. What is there is weak and ambiguous, allowing for loopholes and grey areas. Nevertheless, the tax system still has too many loopholes that favour certain groups or individuals. As I previously explained in my presentation, some might say they are loopholes in the legislation. Show More Sentences The legislation, according to its critics, would have provided legal loopholes for those responsible for defective products, faulty construction and even criminal acts. According to the organisers, laws and regulations governing our marine environment are a mess of contradiction, loopholes and environmental lunacy. Some of the loopholes, whereby sellers and buyers have agreed to avoid paying stamp duty by inflating the values of fixtures and fittings, will be closed. The outdated wording and loopholes within the legislation allows many offenders to go free. The Compendium is a kind of lawbook, and, as such, it has its share of loopholes. There are still loopholes, still opportunities for discrimination to rear its head. But the government has agreed to improve the existing system by tightening up the loopholes used for tax evasion. The loopholes allowing lower taxes for tobacco sticks and roll-your-own tobacco should be eliminated. The loopholes are splayed at an angle to provide a line of fire over the canal that linked the dock and the river. The report also identifies a considerable number of loopholes in Department of Defence and NASA recoupment provisions. Because of the amendment's broadness legal minds would be searching for loopholes in it. It made use of procedural loopholes and contained a number of mendacious and unsubstantiated claims. The hay was carted upstairs where it was left to dry off and could be preserved thanks to loopholes. At the moment, the act, amongst other loopholes, does not make clear distinctions between brokers, agents and consultants and how they should be remunerated. Other commentators chided Canada for dragging its feet and for supporting loopholes to accommodate countries that oppose a ban. It has opened up psychological loopholes through which people can wriggle out of their legitimate responsibilities. The terrace is lined with parapets with 24 embrasures for cannon and double loopholes. Recent developments have placed the Treaty under stress thus having exposed its loopholes that are to be closed urgently and without delay. The loopholes, the culture of defeatism, and the concern about whether or not we can achieve things, that is something from the Liberal days. Today we are dealing with a bill that arises out of concerns from the Auditor General about the perpetuation of tax loopholes and tax havens. Show More Sentences This article closes the loopholes which made it possible to turn the child's lack of criminal responsibility to advantage. Conventional ethics of the sort debated in courses and seminars offer loopholes that the more rough-hewn code of honour does not recognize. Rather, he wants Congress to close loopholes and increase fees for, say, leasing mineral rights. More than a ringer, it is yet another manifestation of the American genius at finding loopholes. True to form, it allows emissions to increase well past 2010 and contains gaping loopholes for the oil sands. This agreement contains numerous loopholes and ambiguities that work against the fundamental rights of the people to be readmitted. We had to close security loopholes, which often occurred as a result of keys being lost, break-ins or vandalism. Governments create loopholes to sell arms to the very countries they themselves have officially blacklisted. We have to close loopholes, as it is very cheap to convert mercury into calomel. However, loopholes in the legislation applicable within the EU which allow offences to go unpunished remain possible. The Dominican Republic emphasized that exemptions should be clearly defined to avoid loopholes in the future. Republicans also want to pursue tax-evaders, close loopholes, and enforce the tax code. We want to avoid loopholes and also the absurd situation where neither the directive nor international conventions apply. We are asking for this to also be included in the directive and the international conventions reviewed and for the loopholes to be closed. In order to avoid security loopholes, this requirement should also be introduced with regard to goods brought into or out of a free zone. And without a definition, one is left with loopholes and meaningless limitations that endanger national security. But loopholes and conflicting provisions in the Act obscure its priorities and reduce its effectiveness. Moreover, a couple of loopholes in the Agreement allow the provinces to claim credit for spending by others, including municipalities. The participants suggested revising the existing treaties, bringing them up to date and eliminating numerous loopholes. There are no loopholes or laws that credit repair companies can use to get correct information off your credit report. Show More Sentences Most are under instructions to close all the loopholes of the adversary but keep their own open. Such suggestions regarding legal amendment of the Treaty would actually undermine the Treaty regime and create uncertainties and loopholes. Ares said there are instances where savvy gankers manage to exploit loopholes. Corporations do not pay lobbyists millions of dollars to forego their tax loopholes. The NRA forces lawmakers to gut a proposed law, leaving it with gaping loopholes. She chooses to improvise, to break rules, to find loopholes. There are few, if any, ambiguities and no apparent loopholes or omissions. Tax avoidance schemes aim to exploit loopholes in the law that allow those with hefty tax liabilities to cut their bills dramatically and, in some cases, reduce them to zero. But some professional investors and hedge funds take advantage of loopholes in the rules to sell shares without making any attempt to borrow the stock. Indeed, for reasons that are well beyond me, that particular jurisdiction actually designs tax loopholes to be exploited by a variety of companies. Other sources of revenue include a tax on stock and bond transactions, closing corporate tax shelter loopholes, projected budget surpluses, and household out-of pocket costs. He introduced a bill to reduce military service from five years to three but to close the loopholes by which seminarists, students, and the rich could obtain exemption. Our tax policies are larded through with loopholes for interests connected to those in power. He adds that it is necessary because, after he raised the corporate tax in the 1990s, funds to the treasury actually fell, as companies used loopholes to avoid taxes. The result will be provisions that are watered down or loopholes that vitiate key provisions altogether. So far, efforts to combat corruption have been unfruitful due to the lack of political will, loopholes in existing laws and regulations and corrupt judicial officers. A great amount of equality legislation is on the statute books, however, loopholes around the law exist and cases are hard to prove unless clearly obvious. I took the Theo exam a while ago, which, as usual, was chock-full of trick questions and loopholes, all designed to tie the average student up in knots. This is to reduce the potential for loopholes. Some have taken advantage of legal loopholes and sold their plots of land, disfranchising others in the process. Show More Sentences Companies that leverage these functions to generate and manage strategies to eliminate waste, tighten loopholes and create a sound financial footing will emerge stronger and with more opportunities. These loopholes are rendering this critical regulation all but meaningless and setting a poor example for other nations as they develop finning bans. These programs need to be designed so that only starting farmers can access them and there are no loopholes for big corporations to grow larger from them. They are adorned with several windows and roof dormers which are framed in stone, and several more outstanding features such as loopholes, also in stone. The draft bill, unveiled by Jack Straw on May 24th, is riddled with loopholes which would give Britain one of the feeblest information laws in the world. He said Malawians would be interested to know how much the president knew about the looting, which her government has blamed on loopholes in the payment system. The challenge then would be to bind the hands of both parties to consummating a big deal next year. For all the appeal of curbing loopholes, each has vocal and influential defenders. The Treasury should shut loopholes exploited by footloose international corporate raiders. We will take a long hard look for the loopholes and pointless spending. In this regard, the voluntary adoption of the Code of Ethics by dealers in cultural property is intended to counter the problem of secrecy prevailing in the art market and to close legal loopholes. We are left with loopholes that people who victimize children could drive a truck through, loopholes that the defence and the bar associations across the country will have a field day with. Stopping criminals from exploiting loopholes in the justice system by ending the practice of getting 2-for-1 or 3-for-1 credit for time served either before or during their trial. These churches had such defensive features as thick walls, loopholes, machiolate parapets and towers. Tax avoidance strategies and loopholes tend to emerge within income tax codes. A flat tax means scrapping all income tax bands and the various exemptions and loopholes and replacing them with a single low rate. That deal took much longer to hammer out than the one we are debating today and still has loopholes enough to leave Canada high and dry, time and time again. On the other hand, the study found that some of the laws on code of conduct for leaders have loopholes that will militate against effective implementation. During a siege it was also easier to fire an arquebus out of loopholes than it was a bow and arrow. Gavin Caple Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire THERE should be no loopholes in the law to protect them. There are too many loopholes with national regulations crocheted in elsewhere, making individual interpretations possible and the whole thing impenetrable. Show More Sentences With another election coming up, most of the loopholes that the Russians exploited have not been closed, and the main loophole — the open, connected, massively contagious world of social media — might not be closable. Today they have increasingly taken on the role of independent private actors who exploit loopholes in laws and regulations, and sidestep the weak regulatory capacities of some states, to provide arms to conflict zones. However, as I demonstrated earlier, they are not loopholes but are put there by design to enable people, certain wealthy individuals and companies, to avoid paying taxes. It is our responsibility as members of the international community to ensure that States acting in bad faith should be prevented from exploiting the loopholes existing in current regimes and norms. It also urged politicians to reverse a Franco-German led move in 2005 to water down debt rules and called for them to close loopholes that offer offending countries get-out clauses. We must not have a situation in which certain people can take advantage of the loopholes in our harmonisation in order to create an underclass of Europeans by introducing second-class workers or deferred citizenship. The alternative to a principles-based approach, namely detailed rules, would quickly be overtaken by new developments and would be an easy target for those seeking to find loopholes. Marketers are accused of being willing to do anything for a profit, not stopping at misleading or tasteless advertising or stitching loopholes into guarantees. Sales taxes throughout the United States and value-added taxes around the world are riddled with loopholes. These stairways are interrupted by landings with loopholes overlooking the vaults. Firing rooms, covered with domes supported on pendentives, were built into the towers. By 2016, Bieb-coin miners will lead the planet's revolutionised professional class, along with capuchin fosterers and lawyers who specialise in finding loopholes in tattoo legislation. This gate was the only entrance to the village until 1866. Some parts of the defense system can still be observed: covered way with loopholes and a guardroom. Everyone knew about it, but little was done, and above all the industry shirked its responsibilities, working within the loopholes created by the inertia of the public authorities. Arms brokers are able to successfully operate and deliver arms to embargoed areas because of their ability to manipulate the loopholes within both the national and international legal systems that govern such activity. The bill is crenellated with more loopholes than a medieval castle. Mr. Clifford Lincoln: In my view, Mr. Speaker, the upper house is there to review bills and make sure they become watertight if by any chance there are loopholes left by the House of Commons. The bill has also been amended to close any loopholes with respect to the inclusion of attempts, conspiracies and being an accessory after the fact. In the time of the Maeda family, moats surrounded Kanazawa Castle. The castle had a fort function with loopholes for matchlocks on the outer wall to defend the castle from enemies. This will provide clarity for complainants and prevent loopholes. Since then the arms industry has become increasingly globalised, enabling arms deals to circumvent national regulation by passing through legal loopholes in different countries. Show More Sentences These are the very loopholes that undermine and eat away at our ability as a nation to do things for the people of this nation, which they deserve. Subsidisation of certain industries has continued,and loopholes in regulations have been ruthlessly exploited. It recommends that they co-operate at international level with other states to avoid any legal loopholes that would make it possible to disseminate such material. We did not need SOX, maybe the closure of a few loopholes, but not a legalized Salem-style witch hunt. Conservatives like it because lowering rates stimulates the economy and eliminating loopholes curbs tax-driven economic decisions that grossly misallocate capital. Lawmakers then attempt to close the loopholes with additional legislation. Wouldn't grow straight if you put a splint on 'er. She liked the loopholes in things. The chinks, the crooks and nannies... liked to find healthy little plantlets to choke! The sun had shifted round, and the myriad windows of the Ministry of Truth, with the light no longer shining on them, looked grim as the loopholes of a fortress. Its walls equipped with loopholes have a thickness of up to 4 meters. Taking advantage of trading loopholes and insider tip-offs, Goldman peaked with an account balance of PS14 million but troughed with two spells in prison. Arrowslits, also commonly called loopholes, were narrow vertical openings in defensive walls which allowed arrows or crossbow bolts to be fired on attackers. Examples from Classical Literature The terreplein of each of these works was sunk, so that the loopholes were within one foot and a half of the level of the ditch. These were formed of walls of reinforced concrete five feet thick, with loopholes through which machine-guns could fire. The frame was enclosed with slabs, pinned on vertically, and pierced with loopholes. From this central block rose the twin towers, ancient, crenelated, and pierced with many loopholes. The man who trembling crosses his sword with that of another leaves loopholes whereby his enemy has him in his power. But there were no loopholes for musketry, nor vaults and dungeons. They did not even answer the desultory fire directed at the loopholes. I descended, minding carefully where I went for the stairs were dark, being only lit by loopholes in the heavy masonry. But the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon confronted one another as before. He took occasion, too, to examine the gentleman as closely as he could, expecting to discover sundry loopholes in his person, pierced by his adversary's sword. Then Fouquet descended about a score of steps which sank, winding, underground, and came to a long, subterranean passage, lighted by imperceptible loopholes. Coming regulations will reduce tax benefits of inversions by preventing certain uses of controlled foreign corporations and closing loopholes in the Sec. Find more words! 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