Its fortifications included bastions, buttresses, ramparts, battlements, and loopholes.

Other strategies may include exploitation of the game's rules, or loopholes that are not necessarily addressed by the rules.

The gift ban includes enough loopholes, the committee decided, to allow senators to partake in most convention-related activities.

The original Senate ethics bill included looser restrictions and major loopholes.

It remains to be seen how strictly the guidelines will be applied, since even the bans on political and personal travel aboard military airplanes include loopholes that can permit some flights.

A salary cap had been a part of the CBA since 1983, but it included loopholes that allowed teams to exceed the payroll limit.

The latest measure, while welcomed by Hungary's increasingly impatient environmentalits, may also include loopholes.

But the negotiated settlement with the watershed communities includes significant loopholes, both in the rules and in the land-buying effort, according to a variety of environmental groups and some city officials.

The scandal included utilizing loopholes that were found within the GAAP (General Accepted Accounting Principles).

Still, the governor's critics say the new plan also includes several flaws and loopholes that benefit prosecutors and render the bill unacceptable to the Assembly.