1.   Banks are trying to cut costs to generate money to write off their bad loans.

2.   The saxophonist had written off the States much as the States had written off him.

3.   The teacher turned and rubbed what he had written off the board.

4.   They could write off all investments in the year they are made rather than spreading them out over a period of years.

5.   We decided to write off the rest of the day and go shopping.

6.   Camdessus also urged the industrialized countries to increase aid to the LDCs and to write off official loans to the poorest countries.

7.   On the other hand the United States should not write off in advance certain parts of Asia to communism without examining what might or might not be done.

8.   We could clinch a play-off place with a good run yet a lot of fans appear to have written off our season.

9.   They write off Ireland as a spent force, which in my experience is a foolish thing to do.