Sentence examples for are rendered useless from inspiring English sources

"Entire objects are rendered useless because a stupid piece of plastic broke," he said.

The best equipment and curriculum materials are rendered useless unless there are first-rate teachers to use them.

Eventually, crystal build-up can wear down joints to such an extent that they are rendered useless.

The grass-covered river flats (known locally as banto faros) of the lower river are rendered useless for cultivation by the salt water that periodically inundates them, and settlements on them are few.

His navigation equipment and his radio are rendered useless, and he is seventeen hundred miles south of the sea lane known as the Sumatra Straits, where he hopes he can be rescued.

The drugs come across hundreds of miles of poorly policed borders and through remote mountain passes so high that drug-sniffing dogs are rendered useless by the altitude, then pass through Russia.

What is one to do when these lessons, taught and learned between them, are rendered useless--whereby the sanctity and bond between parent and child come under threat--not by a stranger at the door but someone with state authority and the power to break apart a family.

"I've lost all my money, and my education is rendered useless," Ms. Khan said.

English and Swahili, the languages that were supposed to unite us, have now been rendered useless.

The five key mutations could not be reversed first, because the receptor would be rendered useless.

The outdoor pool was rendered useless in 1990 because of nearby roadwork.