Sentences with phrase «writing efforts off»

To get your letter - writing efforts off to a great start, I have culled these trends from MODERNIZE YOUR JOB SEARCH LETTERS: Get Noticed... Get Hired.

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If the majority of the year's tax write - offs are documented now, it will require less effort to add the rest during tax time.

That doesn't mean you can write off that visit to the spa — but if you're better equipped to give your business the energy and effort it deserves because you took a little R&R, then it wasn't time or money wasted.

That event will cap off a week where Obama and administration officials will look back on innovation's impact on the economy since Obama first took office and «announcing new steps... to build on those efforts,» Zients wrote.

In shrugging off the ugly anti-Catholic content in the Clinton WikiLeaks fiasco in mid-October, one «progressive» Catholic pundit wrote that the «whole controversy is simply an effort, a stupid effort, to stop Clinton's ascent to the White House.»

This feeling is compounded by books written by bionic mystical saints who, 300 years before the invention of TV, would pop off to the woods, crawl into the bowels of a log and spend six blissful weeks in fasting and prayer with apparently zero effort.

It's a long process and it takes time and effort but you shouldn't write your pets off just because they inconvenience you.

There would be some increased effort into trying to avoid tax havens and prevent «fraud» due to the easy of it happening and the difficulty of proving it, but i suspect for the most part the goverment will be willing to write off a certain degree of such fraud as it will be cheaper to allow some of it to happen then to try to prevent it.

Fred Dicker writes that «some believe aides to Cuomo leaked» the news that Duffy had the interview, in an effort to drive him off the ticket.

Recalling Douglas Alexander's allegiance to Brown — despite his own efforts to «wean him» off membership of Brown's inner circle — he writes: «But the Gordon curse was to make these people co-conspirators, not free - range thinkers.

He also said there was no evidence of an organized effort by unions or others to discourage police from making arrests or writing summonses, but he has also encouraged NYPD brass to instruct officers to re-engage, reportedly threatening to take away days off and other work benefits.

► «A major congressional effort to spur medical innovation passed another milestone today when a House of Representatives committee signed off on the 21st Century Cures Act,» Jocelyn Kaiser wrote Thursday at ScienceInsider.

Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, astrobiologists Alberto Fairén of Cornell University and Dirk Schulze - Makuch of Washington State University say the NASA Office of Planetary Protection's «detailed and expensive» efforts to keep Earth microorganisms off Mars are making missions to search for life on the red planet «unviable.»

PICTURE PERFECT People put a huge amount of time into writing the perfect profile, but does all that effort pay off?

Your fullest supermoon is After a turbulent year fending off efforts to diminish our power and silence our voices, women are harnessing their outrage, writes Marianne

It would be easy to write off Buscemi's maiden effort as a serendipitous fluke, but just like that squirrely face of his, you know that surface values are merely the outer layer.

It's easy to write off Fifty Shades Freed with the same sneer the books have been subjected to since they appeared, which is to treat it as an inherently hilarious effort to appeal to the prurient interests of square, easily scandalized middle - aged women.

Nanjiani is coming off the hit indie The Big Sick, which he co-wrote, executive produced and starred in, earning an Oscar nomination for his writing efforts along with wife Emily V. Gordon.

Other credits include 1991's «Off and Running» starring Cyndi Lauper, 2003's and «The Recruit» starring Al Pacino and Colin Farrell, but it wasn't until 2010 when Glazer mounted his first directorial effort, «Passion Play» (which he wrote as well).

Still, don't write off the enjoyment I derived from this movie as the result of low expectations; besides Polar Express, I haven't disliked any of Zemeckis» studio's mo - cap efforts (a group that includes Monster House, Beowulf, and A Christmas Carol).

The repetitive nature of Cage's mission conversely allows Liman to jettison the tedious exposition we might have been saddled with, writing it off as lessons learned in prior efforts, too numerous to show.

We are writing this article hot off the back of the latest Nintendo Direct event, and it looks like the trend for top games is set to continue with amazing first party titles like Splatoon and Zelda, along with rare but exceptional efforts from 3rd party partners like Monolith.

In an effort to keep my mind off of worrying about finding money for that movie I wrote this film titled «Tusk».

Many students are invisible strugglers, falling through the cracks and being written off as not needing the extra effort and intervention that educators can provide.

So because I enjoy my day job and don't necessarily need to make writing novels my full time job (therefore not earning a living off my books despite the years and effort it takes putting into them), I'm not an author?

It goes along this line of thinking, and I'm guessing it applies to you: if you work your ass off, put in tons of time, energy, creativity, even money on writing and promotion, and yet your work doesn't get the kind of rewards you expect (let's say financial for simplicity's sake), either because that's life or because your publisher doesn't recognize the effort or your publisher drops the ball (it happens)... And in another area / format, etc., you work your ass off, put in the time, etc., and it DOES succeed in the way you expect or in a way that seems to be equivalent to the time and work you put into it, then it makes sense that THAT is where you should continue to put your time, energy, money, etc..

Writing it as if it was a «team effort» between him and the Dalai Lama was off - putting to me, because that's just not what I was looking for out of this book.

In the weeks following the finalist announcements, Doris engaged in some aggressive «author platform» leveraging and social media marketing efforts, which paid off — her book was named the 2010 Outskirts Press Best Book of the Year, recognizing the best book we published in 2010, written by the author who demonstrated the best marketing muscle.

This often means reining authors in when their writing comes off as strained or self - conscious in its effort to be literary, as well as the opposite — making sure that the effort to be spartan, muscular, or efficient with your prose hasn't left it feeling stripped.

He broke off from that effort last month to write «Kindle Fire: The Missing Manual,» to be published in January as a print volume and an e-book from O'Reilly Media.

They — and I say they because I'm assuming the pricing strategy of this book had to be a group effort — have simultaneously launched a book that has absolutely no discount when purchased from Amazon.com (Amazon retail price: $ 26.99, although, some Amazon «merchants» are offering discounts off of retail), however, as I write this, the un-discounted, paid version of the book is the # 1 selling business book on Amazon.

All students know that essay writing requires a lot off efforts and time.

12 Most Certain Ways You Will Turn Off a Website Visitor via 12 Most — You put a lot of time, effort, and money into creating an author website and promoting your writing.

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.

Federal officials have increased their efforts in recent years to collect outstanding student loans after watching write - offs hit $ 312 million in 2012 and $ 295 million in 2015.

For this reason, make every effort to negotiate with lenders on terms to repay a loan rather than allowing it to be written off.

But the government has also amped up efforts to collect outstanding student loans, especially after write - offs escalated to almost $ 300 million in 2015.

In many instances, the creditors will simply write off the debt and stop their collection efforts.

It may not be enough to bring people back to a game most had written off even before launch (a quick glance at the Metacritic score tells you people aren't ready to forgive yet), but EA's efforts to claw back some goodwill from players should at least give the game a longer tail than perhaps it would've if we'd coughed up for loot crates in November of last year.

It's a breathe of fresh air to see time and effort devoted to good dialogue writing, and it seems to pay off in what we've seen so far.

It would be equally wrong to write off the summit as a waste of time, effort and money as some commentators have very narrowly done.

White has long been involved with efforts to study and protect dolphins, as well, and is on the scientific advisory board of the Wild Dolphin Project, a long - term research effort off the Bahamas that was written up (and videotaped) for The Times in 2011 by my friend Erik Olsen.

I've written off and on about innovative environmental education efforts, including «trout in the classroom» (a personal favorite).

It would obviously be hard for IPCC to simply write it off as «controversial» when CERN is spending quite a bit of effort to test it experimentally.

A new study in the Arctic north shows that water at the higher latitudes are undergoing as serious changes as other areas, but they're changing at an even faster rate.Physorg writes that researchers from nine European countries have turned a coal mine village off the coast of Ny - Aalesund, just shy of 750 miles from the North Pole, into a laboratory site during July in a major effort to understand how ocean acidification is altering the northern water.

When I wrote about efforts to increase access for Off Road Vehicles to beaches at Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, it stirred up quite a debate.

Inspired by this article on Lifehacker, one of my Twitter buddies proclaimed «Goodbye July ``: he's signing off of Twitter and Facebook for a month, in an effort to revitalize his creativity and reclaim his ability to focus, saying «social media has warped my attention span to the point where it has become harder for me to read longer pieces of writing.»

A decline in your realization rate can sometimes be indicative of larger problems in your firm and, as the ABA Law Practice Magazine notes, time and effort written - off by your firm can have a number of causes.

I see these numbers is in spite of helping lawyers write and work personal marketing plans, running lunch - «n - learn workshops on how to get new clients, offering one - on - one coaching help, hiring outside coaches and trainers, sending lawyers off to seminars at snazzy resorts, distributing articles with rainmaking ideas and, when all else failed, cajoling, nudging and browbeating them into making an effort.

If you are suing for a small amount of money — perhaps something under $ 1500 — the time and effort will probably not be worth it and it may be better to simply write the claim off.