Sentence examples for wrote off on from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

The risk Foster took was this: If the Senate and House do not pass an extension of the mortgage debt relief law during the lame-duck session, the full principal balance his lender wrote off on his mortgage probably will be treated as ordinary income for 2014.

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.

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

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

That is why, analysts believe, the four idled plants were not written off on G.M.'s books until now.

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.

Finally, Singer allegedly worked with parents to disguise their bribes as donations to his nonprofit, allowing them to be written off on their income taxes.

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.

Levi and his collaborator stuck eye patches on the good eye of adult amblyopics, aged fifteen to sixty-one, whom everyone else had written off on the presumption that they could not learn anything new.