Sentence examples for written off on from inspiring English sources

A technique that worked well on a problem may not perform well in another problem domain just as a technique that was written off on one problem may be promising with another.

Swann claims he too struggled in the corresponding match for the 2009 tour, taking nought for 160 against West Indies A, and yet his own Test career, in which he went on to claim 255 Test victims, is proof that no spinner should be written off on the basis of one outing.

£5m was written off on "onerous contracts" and £16m on failed programmes and developments.

Profits have collapsed, around £1.3bn has been written off on loss-making contracts, and the company won't return to sales growth for another three years.

The entire scheme was "reset" in early 2013 with £34m written off on the failed IT programme and the original deadline was put back two years.

Brand claimed this would help "neutralise the toxic social threat" addicts pose as criminals and ensure they are not simply put on methadone programmes for years at a time, which leaves them written off on the sidelines of society.

I just ordered a flat-screen Samsung TV that I can write off on my taxes.

Lenders wrote off as uncollectible $11.1 billion in home equity loans and $19.9 billion in home equity lines of credit in 2009, more than they wrote off on primary mortgages, government data shows.

It's up there with the mysteries of chromosome X boiler relighting – they don't teach that in Home Economics, a class I wrote off on the premise that I'd just marry a man who could change a fuse.

So maybe we should form a "Friday Talking Points" non-profit, so we can get lotsa money that our donors can write off on their taxes.

But for them to write off on their taxes as a 'business deduction' millions upon millions of dollars (that are, quite frankly, obscene amounts) will come to an end!