Sentences with phrase «write it off as»

High energy expenses are perhaps something you have been writing off as normal or deemed just too difficult to confront.

But unless you can convince investors that you're capable of delivering the goods, persuading the world to buy your fancy throne and managing phenomenal growth, they'll write it off as just another pipe dream.

Some wrote us off as simply two naive, young women.

Dental hygiene Unfortunately for dentists — and happily for thousands of anti-dentites — in a bad economy, a visit to the dentist's chair is likely to be written off as a luxury.

The cynically minded might be quick to write this off as a gimmick, and in this case they'd be right.

Sometimes, this naivety leads them to novel answers to riddles everyone else had written off as insoluble.

So if you're in love with a house in a «less good» neighborhood or within a «less good» school district, before you write it off as an option, do a little more digging.

Others write themselves off as «not the fashion type.»

The bills for his giant yacht, for example, were written off as a casino expense, according to former casino manager John O'Donnell.

Daily emails are not a new business model by any means, but the founders of theSkimm managed to breathe new life into a communication tool that many businesses have written off as tired or ineffective.

The negative aspect from a buyer's vantage point is that intangibles like goodwill can't be written off as quickly as they might be in an asset - based deal.

White says being written off as a kid was a big concern when he was starting Next Big Sound.

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.

Small merchants like my company take credit card security very seriously while some larger companies simply write it off as a cost of business.

And if these things don't get done, no one's to blame — it ends up just getting written off as an issue of miscommunication.

I hope the workers start fighting back soon, I do like what the retirees have started, and I hope it grows exponentially, as I know for sure the retirees can no longer be just some notion classed and written off as legacy costs.

Normally, businesses would be able to write these off as a business expense — up to 50 percent.

This is because companies no longer have to amortize excessive goodwill, and also because they regularly under - depreciate investments and then write them off as «extraordinary losses» in order to keep the depreciation from reducing operating earnings.

The decrease was the result of both higher levels of «chargeoffs» — debt that card issuers write off as uncollectible — compared to 2007 and lower new balances than in 2007.

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.

Germany underperforming makes the entire eurozone look even weaker, with Italy, France and Spain all written off as saviours for the region.

Self - employed borrowers write off as many expenses as legally possible.

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

The fines that are imposed are essentially written off as a cost of doing business, and you don't have a lot of nursing homes that have that alternative power supply.»

If this happens, you either need to look hard to find another broker, or just write it off as a lost opportunity.

Are you going to man up, grow a set and do so, or should I just write you off as a complete waste of oxygen and a drain on resources of all kinds?

To write them off as potential partners before she'd even met them «seemed rude.»

No matter what is presented to you people, you already have a plan in place to write it off as BS right up front.

All the things you are writing off as problems — are really interpretation issues, the same thing you will also face as you continue on in this journey as a Christian.

Look a bit closer and it might be easy to write him off as a damaged lot, some deep male nightmare of rage and exclusion, unformed and raw, blinking in the light, Grendel licking his chops.»

I encourage you not to just write it off as fable, please investigate it for yourself.

A Woman's continued cry's for redress, for recognition of her abuse and situation would not have been repeatedly ignored or simply written off as «crazyness»

I do not write them off as hopelessly in error.

His theological assertions differ so profoundly from the dominant theological radicalism of our time, as well as from the neo-orthodoxy and liberalism of the recent past, that some have tried to write him off as an irresponsible eccentric.

It's a fact of life: Women tend to be written off as incomplete until they achieve motherhood, which means we get pestered at every point along the way:

If you thought that voluntary lone parenting should be discouraged, rather than (as it was) positively encouraged by the taxation and benefits system, you were practically written off as a fascist.

Since I'm in Indiana, I think I'll write this off as a poor attempt by CNN to make something controversial out of Prof King's research and go have some lunch.

Many, such as the media guru Douglas Rushkoff, have cavalierly staked out a position that jettisons the concept entirely, writing it off as racist and tribal.

This is why all the terrible things I have experienced in the name of love, God and the church are not simply written off as little slips or slights in human error, but significant manifestations of a deeper malevolence that need brutally honest detection and committed treatment.

On the other hand, more activist - oriented theologians have written him off as no longer relevant.

Individuals and nations alike can be written off as hypocritical or at least as self «deluded if their behavior does not always match their declared ideals.

When your father is both daddy and the demon, you don't usually get the luxury of writing him off as just a demon; you have to live in the tension between the two.

But, the moment that zeal for authentic Christianity returns, at the point of new connection to the miracle of grace, the dreams written off as «childish» will flood our hearts with sudden healing.

Nor can the crusades be simply written off as a conflict «fuelled by fear, greed and hatred.».

Given his views on sexuality, and the apparent ease with which he has found a platform in the mainstream media, more conservative Christians might be tempted to write him off as a wishy - washy liberal.

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.

(Now I've said something like that for years, but people usually just write me off as an overly enthusiastic Dylan fanatic).

I would be tempted to write this off as a successful class - wide prank to abuse my classically - trained ears and torture my soul, but our class discussions on music revealed a firm belief that the «skill, creativity, and cultural popularity» of this music made it worth listening to.

This... this was just a little thing that can be written off as an «isolated incident» until things really get cooking.

Especially when those on the stoney ground are saying they aren't going to try to figure it out, when you know the value of taking the time to figure it out... and they write it off as BS, or believing in «Fred Flintstone».