Sentence examples for had been rendered useless from inspiring English sources
Several of the younger players in the British Open field reacted Thursday as if they were at Gullane Beach and their electronic tablets had been rendered useless by the glare.
The government said I'd caused them over $80m [£51m] of loss, because they'd spent $80m making the operating system - and it had been rendered useless by Kevin Mitnick looking at it".
He was confident that an antique rotary phone he had would stand in for the fancy cordless one that had been rendered useless by the blackout -- until he realized that the phone numbers he needed were stored on his computer.
Mohammed, the four-year-old boy, whose left leg had been blown off just below the knee by bomb fragments and whose right leg had been rendered useless, was fitted with a limb and a brace and immediately began to walk, with the unbridled delight of a child who'd been crawling almost all his life.
Some modern dams have been rendered useless for storing water because the reservoir has filled with silt.
They've been rendered useless by this crisis because they operate under a no-fail rule: nothing can be posted on them unless cleared from above.
"It's yet another situation where a perfectly good technology has been rendered useless because someone out there has decided to abuse it".
"But even Helene's brown side has been rendered useless as if a maniac had taken to it with an axe".
They did miss Dimitar Berbatov and Bryan Ruiz, but the pair's fluidity of movement might have been rendered useless on this "cabbage patch" of a pitch, to coin the phrase of the departed Appleton.
At the end of the post Mark wrote: I am appalled at what that means – that the survival skills that the bull has painstakingly learnt over half a century have been rendered useless by the poachers' use of mass-produced Chinese goods; GPS smart-phones, cheap motorcycles and night vision goggles.
Drug after drug has been rendered useless as the parasite has evolved to evade treatment.
