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Loophole

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Loophole meaning

A slit in a castle wall; today, any similar window for shooting a ranged weapon or letting in light. | A method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule or law that can be exploited in order to avoid its effect.

Synonyms of Loophole

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A loophole in the Clean Air Act allows locomotives to remain in operation indefinitely, and many are 60-70 years old.

At the same time, the heat is increasingly on Trudeau’s Quebec MPs over the apparent incapacity of the government to plug the loophole that has seen tens of thousands of irregular refugees walk their way from the United States to the province.

Basically, under the original negotiation between the two countries, the requirement of claiming asylum within the first country that one reaches applied only to crossings at ports of entry, and not between, making Roxham Road a loophole to the agreement.

Brook Lynn signed a non-disclosure agreement as part of her contract with Linc, but Maxie Jones (Kirsten Storms) offered her a loophole since the Speak Out Act means that can’t be enforced.

Brook Lynn will make a confession, so she may come clean to Chase about her deal with Linc Brown (Dan Buran) and the loophole she plans to use to get out of it.

But a loophole persisted: Trade finance wasn’t part of these promises to stop financing coal and upstream oil and gas.

Congress closed the loophole last year.

Conservationists and the B.C. government are at odds over the strength of provincial old-growth protection measures, with the Ancient Forest Alliance pointing out what it calls a “significant conservation loophole” this month.

Even places dominated by povertyweed or halogeton were pronounced reclaimed, freeing Jindalee to use the initial Notice loophole to “disturb” BLM greater than 5 acres of Sage-grouse Focal and Oregon Core habitat without NEPA or public comment.

He said eight centres in Anambra State are currently under investigation over Mmesoma’s case, adding that contrary to insinuations, there was no loophole in JAMB.

How hard would it have been for the assasins to fly-in somewhere kind of distant to the actual target, buy or steal an off-the-books gun or two (gun show loophole anyone?

If voters grant their approval on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, Maine would be the 10th state to close the loophole in federal election law that bans foreign entities from spending on candidate elections, yet allows donations for local and state ballot measures.

In other words, this country’s sorry privacy laws give companies like Edmodo a loophole big enough to drive a school bus through.

In the end, both sides caved a little, joining forces to and then to create a one-time filibuster loophole that allowed Senate Democrats to with a simple majority vote.

It is a loophole that sets them up to stall, and stall hard.

King Charles has been dragged into a "woke" row between Disney and Florida Republicans after the company used an obscure legal loophole referencing the Monarch.

Labour will launch another attack on today, accusing him of raising taxes for working people while his family benefited from a loophole.

Percy was entitled to it through a loophole: Since he was found not guilty be reason of insanity he was only medically discharged from the navy.

Perhaps because the movie’s celeb-backed campaign was a loophole that the organization wanted to close, the Academy did promise to look into “social media and outreach campaigning tactics’s surprising success.

Republicans also criticized a loophole that would have allowed someone to loan a firearm indefinitely to a friend or neighbor without a background check.