Sentences with phrase «much written off»

I've pretty much written off the stock market at this point as I do not want the risk and do not know too much about the market.

I have pretty much written off B&N for e-readers, though I continue to be pleased with my Nook Simple Touch.

Thanks for that one Queen B. Before Gossip Girl I'd pretty much written off headbands after second grade but I was making a serious mistake.

It called for their boiled cider so pretty much wrote off the idea of making it even though it sounded delicious.

I wish I'd had the presence of mind to take a photo when I tried it on, but the image was comically horrific and my optimism took a nose dive; I pretty much wrote off my $ 6 then and there.

I think for a lot of us raised in the romantic West, if we don't feel «chemistry» when we first meet a new man, especially via online dating, then we pretty much write off the date.

Around the third time someone pestered me to join their mob, I pretty much wrote off Facebook as a legitimate gaming platform, along with the would - be crime lord, but Dragon Age Legends might force me to reconsider.

Not exact matches

But that became unsustainable as Frank & Oak took off; cards are written by a much larger number of employees these days.

Inevitably, much of this glut of capacity will have to closed and written off.

The last thing a founder wants is to push hard for a high valuation at the start, only to have the investors write the company off down the road because they don't have much to gain anymore.

It is, of course, much too early to write «Call of Duty» off as a dying franchise.

But good writing — online or off — involves much more than fixing typos or tweaking awkward phrases after the fact.

How much does the business write off each year for bad debts?

Karlson says, «You can find buyers who won't care if they can't depreciate assets, maybe because they'll be taking on so much debt tied to the transaction that they don't need any more tax write - offs.

«After seeing how much success we could bring other people and after learning a little bit more about the backend of the restaurant industry, we realised we could pull it off ourselves,» he writes.

But a sampling of deal documents suggests it took easements and land donations responsible for as much as $ 1 billion in write - offs in 2017.

Yet, the current rules require that much of the cost be written off as an expense when it is incurred, meaning that early years in a product development tend to show very low profits, or in some cases even massive losses, with inflated profits toward the end.

For C corps, they can claim more tax deductions than a partnership may be able to, write off benefits for employees (like health insurance) as business expenses, and are at much less risk of being audited as opposed to an LLC or sole proprietorship structure.

«Plaintiffs» brief illustrates the views of those who may never have even laid eyes on the weapons they vilify,» the group wrote, «much less squeezed off a few rounds at the range, like millions of peaceful, law - abiding Americans regularly do.»

«We've been here before,» Ernst & Young notes, when BP rebranded itself «Beyond Petroleum» in 2005, only to exit the field and write off much of its investment in solar, wind, biofuels, and carbon capture.

Much of the reported earnings of recent years is now being quietly written off of the books, as is excessive «goodwill» from companies overpaying for their acquisitions.

While not insignificant, such investments constitute a much better outcome than fully writing off their business, dealing with leasing issues, and managing all the other negative consequences of closing shop.

$ 2,500 can be written off as a deductible depending on how much interest was paid on a loan.

Many customers have written in to talk about how easy the application process was and how much better off they are because of the consolidation loan they got from Payoff.

So analysts are much more incentivized to write glowing reports about companies with «buy» ratings than risk getting their access to management (and their bonuses) cut off:

Since gaining power, howerver, Syriza has not been able to deliver as much as it had promised, such as adding thousands of jobs to the economy and writing off most of the country's debt.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

For much of his career, he wrote bitterly satirical novels about well - off Londoners; even when the prospect of nuclear catastrophe arises, as it does in London Fields (1989), Amis seems to treat «The Crisis,» the coming «horrorday,» primarily as a vehicle for revealing the largely unpleasant traits of his handful of main characters.

The main problem with this view is that those who hold a Christological approach sometimes simply write off much of the Old Testament revelation of God as being hopelessly in error.

In confining God's revelation to the written word, sola scriptura theology not only cut itself off from much of the rich trinitarian thinking since Nicaea, but limited revelation to the exigencies of human salvation.

In addition, as a parent I know that no matter how much my children tick me off, I could never write them off, so if, as the bible says, we are made in God's image, I don't think he (or she) could either.

And yet basing your life off of the words in one book written 2000 plus years ago makes no much more sense.

It is so much easier to write someone off as «demon possessed» than to do the hard work of loving, healing, restoring, and mending that may need to be done with someone who suffers in such ways.

So until God raises up something new in my life, or gives me direction on what He wants me to do, or maybe just gives me permission to pick back up where I left off because I needed a Sabbath rest, I will not regularly publish new blog posts, write new books, respond to comments, or interact with people much on the various social sites.

But the only thing that each of us can and should do is what we each must do ultimately alone, if we have vocations to be writers: Go off and write out of the very fullness of human experience about the very fullness of human experience and hope to find and affect contemporary readers and the greater world, and in the meantime leave the distracting and finally pointless diagnoses of who were the Catholic writers, and how much, and how well, how little, how importantly, to the critics and scholars.

While much of his «ladies» man» behavior was written off as a joke (such things often are) Irin Carmon and Amy Brittain — the two reporters who broke this story for the Post — say they've been attempting to substantiate the rumors for years.

You atheists know who you are, so don't argue about it, go talk with the Humanist Atheists, you don't have to give up atheism, but you can not keep writing off the world's religions because they are quite frankly the most important deciding factors in whether this world will survive much longer, whether there will be chaos in the world or order.

David discovered this principle and this was probably why God let him off the hook and did not have him stoned to death for adultery and murder like the law required: because David was humble and repented (even though Achan and plenty of other people repented and God still punished them, and this has nothing to do with the fact that David was king and probably would not have commanded his own stoning to keep the law even though he wrote Psalm 119 which is all about how much he loved keeping every commandment in the law).

Yes, you get a tax write - off (so as to not be taxed on the money you no longer have), but it's insignificant compared to how much you would have if you'd just kept 75 % of the money for yourself and paid the 25 % tax.

This made far too much sense, and Calixtus was largely written off by his contemporaries.

If I can not get Jesus and the God of the Old Testament to fit together in a coherent way which maintains the love, grace, and mercy of God, then I may find myself within the ranks of those who simply write off much of the Old Testament as hopelessly full of errors.

much better to write them all off like a closed minded bigot.

Writing is not something you do to show off how much you know, but in order to investigate and explore certain ideas and interact with others about these ideas.

Mary, the Mother of Jesus — After acknowledging that Protestants don't talk about Mary as much as they should, McKnight reminds readers that «Mary influenced her messianic Son, her New - Testament - writing son James, and provided information to Luke as seeds for stories that go his gospel off to a great start.»

I don't know why seeing as no one could possibly care this much about acai bowls, but at least I can now write off a month's worth of breakfasts as business expenses.

Pretty much one of those things I had written off many years ago when we went dairy free.

Yea, I write all my posts on the weekend, but yea, I've been staying OFF social media as much as possible and only for my own necessary «promotion».

I am not saying that Ozil is not great or doesn't add something to the team but I fear you are totally writing off other players and styles of play simply because you believe Ozil is too much better than them without actually analysing what went on in the game.

We can't be sure if Mike Wallace just got tired of everyone writing him off last season or it Bill Lazor's offense is really that much better for him.

and yesterday one reporter from bbc sport wrote radamel falcao blatant dive in the southampton game as a strong penalty claim... this is just one example bias reporting that have been going around in the uk media for quite some time now... i do nt know whether he send them wine every month so he is constantly favoured by them or they simply are afraid of being bitch slap by him if they were to write something negative about him... Sorry for taking so much space to blow off some frustration....