Sentences with phrase «often write off»

What happens here is that companies often write off your debt if you haven't paid it and after a certain amount of time they turn over the debt to a collection agency to help them collect and they're getting paid on a percentage of whatever they collect or the debt might be sold to them and so they're trying to recover more than the price paid for the debts.

In my list of the most entertaining midsize sedans to drive on the market, the Optima is near the top behind the new Mazda 6, but ahead of the new Honda Accord, which many people often write off as a dull driving car when it's surprisingly nimble.

People so often write off horror directors as hacks.

I've noticed that no matter their level of ambition, hard work, or education, many often write off their talent as a matter of luck or timing.

When we hear that a baby is not sleeping and fussy we often write it off as a growth spurt or teething; however, sleep regressions are thought to be caused by the development of new skills in your ever changing baby.

We often write off opposition teams, then the come back to bite our ass.

Both sides of abortion policy - making often write off unborn children of rape as obviously «fair game.»

The Swede is often written off due to the circumstances that he finds himself in, but he did at least compete with the highly - rated Wehrlein last season and will provide Leclerc with a clear benchmark early on.

Fatigue, anxiety, hair loss, weight gain, depression, and other symptoms are often written off as signs of aging or stress.

The «typical» PMS symptoms our culture often writes off as a consequence of womanhood are actually serious signs of a hormonal imbalance.

Green tea, for example, is often written off as bitter because it is steeped too long.

Chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME, is a debilitating long - term condition that affects women disproportionately and is too often written off as «all in the mind».

Beans, the butt of countless flatulence jokes, are often written off as food for poor people, or cheap substitutes for meat.

In education, Asians are often written off as high achievers with «Tiger» parents who care more about academics than their children's emotional well - being.

The conviction that all students can learn is essential to running an effective school, particularly a school filled with children who are often written off by society due to their race, income, or family background.

These changes are often written off as being due to normal aging.

These signs usually come on gradually and, because of this slow onset, these changes are often written off as part of the normal aging process.

Blog posts are unfiltered, un-reviewed, and often written off the cuff, while journal articles are screened, reviewed, and (should be) meticulously researched.

The region is often written off as a «national sacrifice zone.»

The result is that these time - consuming tasks are often written off on client bills.

· Former Attorney's fees were not unconscionable, because she agreed to a reduced rate, testified to the complex nature of the litigation, and often wrote off items to reduce the amount of the bills.

Not exact matches

This often involves writing or stating your opinion, answering polls or surveys, or breaking off in a discussion group.

Self - employed individuals, as gig economy workers typically are, often use a Schedule C when filing taxes to report income and write off numerous expenses tied to working the way they do.

Overwhelming uncertainty often causes investors to ask for updates and hold off on writing checks until the company shreds some layers of risk.

Every time a property changes hands at a higher price, building assessments are raised proportionally — and begin to be re-depreciated for these higher valuations, regardless of how often the buildings already have been written off.

«Business books are often written by show - offs who want you to know all about their knowledge of the Greek tragedies and dark - coloured birds.

The apathetic marketer will denounce link building as being too complex to approach, and the frugal marketer will see the costs of link building — which often run up to thousands of dollars per month — and immediately write it off as too expensive.

More often than not, many of the expenses small business owners pay, such as rent, travel and even membership fees can be written off during tax time to reduce self - employment taxes.

One thing that often throws people off when I write is that I will sometimes discuss my beliefs from a position of biblical authority when I am speaking with one who has that belief system.

Often, people of faith write off atheists as amoral misguided fools.This man on the other hand seems to be taking to heart the idea of walking a mile in their shoes.

Referring to the tendency of converts to resort to non-Christian practices to ward off the «evil» effects of «former gods,» Bishop Hodges wrote, «The Pulayas are often found to be uncertain and foolish as children, and easily led away.

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.

Back in the days of the Bible» writing (over a period of 1400 years dating from 100 AD and before), folks did not disbelieve in a Creator, but they often went off into the deep end as to what form the Creator took.

So the accusation of being «biblically illiterate» is often nothing more than a way to ignore or write off those people with whom you disagree so that you don't have to consider their arguments or seek to understand their position.

Not at all, but here I am looking for a job to pay off the financial debt I made thinking I am sort of called, to eventually f (o) und family, and going starting tomorrow on a full - time two week course on how to write job applications, so me explaining the sinfullness of suicide, and regarding many persons on this planet me motivating them to endure whatever crappy situation (often for profit and / or gain of someone else) even tho they would be better off leaving such situation / s if possible (kind of Moses), seems rather pointless.

All too often they are written off as the preserve of a few strange people who happen to like such trifles.

They often have policies in place for such things, and you kind of have to go with their policies, but I regret so many people then damtohell and write off those people as forever lost.

In his thick collection of Waugh's letters, Amory starts off by commenting that the art of writing letters has been «pronounced dead as often as the novel and with more reason.»

I often write in a notebook the things I plan to do to help myself and try to tick them off as I go.

I used to like the Quaker granola bars you can buy at the grocery store, but I don't buy them often because there's a lot of junk packed into such a small bar, and I usually write it off to just not being worth it.

I know that you know this, but I just have to reiterate how often I think of you and my hands itch to write to you (ignoring the 70 + emails I need to respond to), but I hold off out of fear of being an extra stress on your time.

We have been programed to write it off as sugar but what comes with sugar more often then not are artificial food colorings.

These mashed potatoes were really special, something I don't often say and I could rarely imagine writing in a blog post based off a Paula Deen recipe.

It has been hard for this group to perform consistently, to play for 90 minutes each game, to deal with the pressure of being in 1st place, to deal with big games, most often this group performs once they are written off.

To be honest I want them to keep writing us off and start to praise Lei as favorites and saying how spu must take this opportunity because they don't come round too often.

I've been in and around football too long to write off any game but what's worrying is the lack of any Plan B when it starts going wrong as it has too often this season.

It is also why I am making the assumption that Song will go to Barcelona — as I trust this source highly (even if ANR's opinion pieces are often way off the mark)-- and writing about our team without him in mind.

As you said in your post, we often tend to write it off as harmless or even «natural `.

Turns out I had Postpartum Thyroiditis, a pretty common condition that often goes undiagnosed because its» symptoms are written off as a result of having a new baby.

When Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader in 2015, he was immediately written off and ridiculed by Conservative - supporting public affairs professionals, while the industry's hefty contingent of diehard Blairites were often even more scathing.