Immunotherapy is based on the fact that once the immune system recognizes cancer and gears up to fight it, something remarkable happens: The immune system is rendered helpless.
Partway through the visit, the robots turn on the guests; the staff in the control room tries to halt the mayhem, but is rendered helpless by a power shutdown.
Politically Czechoslovakia is rendered helpless, with all that that means to the balance of forces in eastern Europe, and Hitler will be able to advance again, when he chooses, with greatly increased power.' Click to read the full leader.
Probably without even having noticed, Cottrell Boyce gifts himself the point of the sonic screwdriver being useless on wood, and so without much of a clue or a handy tool, the Doctor is rendered helpless.
We send men and women to Congress and we pay them very well, including outstanding benefits, but all they do is play games with the American people, to the extent that the other party is rendered helpless to accomplish anything, wasting four to eight years when we could be doing great things to help our country, our people and the world.
Whether it is hiring, purchasing, financial controls, information technology, workforce management, budgeting, real estate, equipment, or logistics, the executive is rendered helpless by an army of administrative minions with all the authority and none of the accountability.
Paddy Kenny was rendered helpless as QPR's resistance suggested a dark forthcoming fortnight for the relegation‑threatened club.
He was gargantuan — his body exuded forcefulness, like an oversized rook on a chessboard — but he was willing to allow himself to be rendered helpless.
"Can't you see that criminals will always find a way to get a gun, and the law-abiding will be rendered helpless?
They were initially protected at the school by a Belgian-led peacekeeping force that, because of United Nations equivocation, was ultimately to be rendered helpless to prevent their murder.
Wake Forest (4-2, 2-1) was rendered helpless by a defense that had two weeks to think about its problems against Virginia.
