One of the companies involved, EADS, admitted this month that it had "rendered assistance to approximately 30 VIPs in the past three years in obtaining vehicles".
"I would like to thank the Italian authorities for all the assistance they have rendered in expediting the formalities necessary to repatriate James Gandolfini's remains to the United States," Kobold said.
They might actually have rendered him speechless.
Artists have rendered his image in paint.
We have rendered no such "holding," however.
But on Monday, the office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a four-page letter to the judge that Mr. Lipsky had rendered "substantial assistance in the investigation and prosecution of numerous other persons".
Our cases have accordingly been responsive to proved claims that governmental conduct has rendered counsel's assistance to the defendant ineffective". United States v. Morrison, 449 U.S. 361, 364, 101 S.Ct.
"This," they added, "has been time-consuming and burdensome, and has rendered very real assistance to the interests of justice in this case".
But the timing of Lisbon's request for assistance has rendered the situation more awkward than expected, because a political crisis has left Portugal with a caretaker government whose authority to agree to a major financial rescue package is questionable.
The king accused Ulf of cowardice, prompting the earl to remind Canute of the assistance he had rendered him at the Helge River, when, he gibed, "the Swedes beat you like a dog".
The foundation which bears his family name has achieved world recognition for the assistance it has rendered to the less-developed countries of the world, particularly in the field of agriculture.
