21.   That is why Congress, using the loophole of protecting minors, is nibbling nervously at the fringes of gun control.

22.   The bill does away with the alternative minimum tax, designed to catch profitable corporations that use loopholes to escape tax liability.

23.   The companies say that multinational companies based outside the United States routinely use such loopholes and that it is unfair to deny them to U.S. companies.

24.   The loopholes are used most often in inner cities, which typically have more than twice as many uncertified teachers as affluent districts in the suburbs do.

25.   These loopholes can be used to shunt aside leave-takers.

26.   They have been using loopholes to get around zoning difficulties.

27.   Under Cuomo, the state used a loophole that made the interest on the debt higher but avoided the referendum requirement.

28.   Authorities recently cracked down on a number of soccer players who used a loophole to live and pay lower taxes in neighboring Belgium while playing for German clubs.

29.   Berlin has already used loopholes in the law to let some stores open late by declaring special tourist zones.

30.   Harding used a loophole in jurisdiction to stay on the team, despite growing evidence of her involvement in the attack on Kerrigan at the Olympic trials.