Sentence examples for previously written off from inspiring English sources
After many trips to the thrift store, I actually could see the inside of several closets whose depths I had previously written off as lost territory.
"In the nineteen-eighties, the G.D.R. took an interest in figures it had previously written off — Martin Luther, Otto von Bismarck, King Friedrich II, and also Karl May.
Here there has been a pick up in trading, but we see as more important management's comments that they have benefitted from the recovery of previously written off bad debts.
In 2010, British neuroscientist Adrian Owen first reported that changes in blood flow in certain parts of the brain showed that a patient previously written off as being in a vegetative state was actually conscious.
In the middle of last month, Richard Bond, the political director of Vice-President Bush's Presidential campaign, concluded that there was a chance the Republicans could carry New York State, previously written off to the Dukakis forces.
Previously written off as a failed state, Somalia has installed its most legitimate government for decades since President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's election in 2012, but it has struggled to exert influence beyond the capital and remains plagued by deadly attacks by militants.
A smaller iPad could sound a bit like a 180-degree turn for the company, because Steve Jobs, the company's late chief executive, previously wrote off tablets with smaller screens.
PG&E; said it will record the items as nonoperating income because it previously wrote off its unrecovered wholesale power costs.
Pupils, who had previously been written off as problem children, were given the structure and support they needed to succeed.
Writing in The Daily Telegraph, he said the reforms were not just about "making the numbers add up", but were intended to bring "new hope" to people who had previously been written off by the system.
"But our welfare reforms go beyond that alone - they are about giving new purpose, new opportunity, new hope - and yes, new responsibility to people who had previously been written off with no chance.
