Sentence examples for small loophole from inspiring English sources

MOSCOW — When Russia carried out sweeping restrictions on gambling this month, closing thousands of casinos and slots parlors, their owners grasped at a small loophole.

The constitution offers a small loophole, however: the president may "fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session".

Baby-theft cases provided one small loophole to the amnesty laws: parents who were judged in court to be guilty of having adopted — or "appropriated" — the children of the disappeared while knowing the truth about their origins could be imprisoned.

In a move of utter cynicism, foes of Shays-Meehan are planning to offer an amendment throwing out this small loophole, in hopes of forcing the bill into conference and killing it.

Baby-theft cases provided one small loophole to the amnesty laws: parents who were judged in court to be guilty of having adopted or "appropriated"—the children of the disappeared while knowing the truth about their origins could be imprisoned.

The Pinochet case is important because the law lords found one small loophole: it does not protect an ex-official of a state from prosecution for crimes against humanity, such as genocide or torture, where sovereign immunity is overridden by an international convention.

"The compromise may end up replacing one big loophole with many small loopholes".Campaigners are also frustrated that there will be no public access to information on trusts, a private financial structure that holds assets for a beneficiary.

Data compiled by the OECD, a rich-country think-tank, highlight how many patents are owned by outfits in such unlikely innovation hubs as Barbados, the Cayman Islands and Bermuda.In both Britain and America, businesses have been lobbying for cuts in marginal corporate-tax rates, even if this meant losing a few small loopholes, and had started to get somewhere.

A new "superachiever credit" offers a much smaller loophole.There are similar protests about the number of hours welfare recipients have to work.

And, since April 1st, it has replaced "exceptional leave to remain", which allowed failed asylum-seekers to stay when they could not be sent home, with a smaller loophole.The Home Office says all this has already dented the numbers arriving, and tougher deportation procedures will make the system less leaky.

Well, it has found a small technical loophole in the law.