Sentence examples for attempts to write off from inspiring English sources

The yen fell as Japanese stocks slumped on concern that attempts to write off bad loans would hurt economic growth.

Still, the D.A. hardly ever talks about race and attempts to write off the language of race as something out of the apartheid era.

(He has since attempted to write off the remark as "just a suggestion").. Ali himself responded to the bigoted "suggestion" in a statement.

From the outset, though, leading members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party have attacked Mr. Takenaka and his attempts to force the banks to write off bad loans and clean up their balance sheets more swiftly.

There were various attempts at filing tax losses to write off the debt, all rejected by the federal government.

WITH ads that show older consumers who have been body-bagged or toe-tagged while still living, breathing and trying to shop, AARP today began its latest attempt to convince marketers not to write off consumers over 50 years old.

Because other branches of Maclaren -- such as Maclaren North America, incorporated in October 2010 -- are alive and well, some are calling the bankruptcy an attempt for a healthy company to write off liabilities by shifting its assets to a new, debt-free branch.

It would be wrong to write off all past attempts to restrain health-care costs: the development of "prospective" payment systems for hospital services, for example, is a useful building-block for further reform.

It's tempting to write off "Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth" as a bold attempt to siphon additional cash from little girls' parents.

A Labour government enjoying an unprecedented third term, grudgingly re-elected on only 35% of the votes cast and pursuing unprecedentedly right-of-centre policies, is also unprecedentedly exposed to attack from the centre-left.The attempts to write the Lib Dems off as a leaderless laughing stock made not the slightest impression on the Dunfermline electorate.

Until I read Saville I had always thought that Monty Python's working-class playwright sketch had finished off all modern attempts to write books like Sons And Lovers.