The phrase 'render futile' is correct and usable in written English.
It means to make something useless or ineffective, and it is commonly used in the context of an action that has been unsuccessful in achieving a particular result. For example, you could say, "Attempts to modify the policy rendered futile as it was quickly reverted back to the original."
This would render futile any attempts to influence the behavior of countries that have been causing so many headaches for the United States and other nations.
It has not said that he cannot turn around on the morrow and render futile that which he has sold by claiming that what he purported to sell as a patent was in truth not a patent, and, since it was not a patent, he, the seller, could not be charged with impairing the worth of the patent by practising it himself.
"The emergence of strong and privileged groups will block equal distribution of the benefits of economic growth in society, which will then render futile the C.C.P.'s strategy of trading economic growth for people's consent to its absolute rule," he said.
Richer and better-educated ones largely voted against Mr Morsi's constitution but the rural poor voted overwhelmingly in favour, upping the overall yes vote to 64%, enough to render futile the widespread claims of fraud.Private opinion polls suggest that the Brotherhood, though still adept at mobilising its core of support, is increasingly mistrusted.
The absence of event and likelihood information renders futile the application of usual risk-based methods for design.
Its deployment of convoys of suicide bombers in 15-tonne trucks renders futile attempts to hold fortified lines.
US attempts to build missile shields – and it was the US all this was aimed at – would be rendered futile.
Just as Tom Lehrer believed that Kissinger's Nobel Peace Prize rendered satire obsolete, so this blood-drinking detail renders futile any kind of political or psychological analysis.
However, any efforts to bring MLS to San Diego – even surfable waves inside the stadium – might be rendered futile by the success of a team located just 20 miles south of the city.
Both were cut from a cloth not best suited to the amateur game and their brief apprenticeships were served with an impatience that rendered futile any didactic intentions from managers or trainers.
He added that "strong and privileged interest groups and commercialized local governments are blocking equal distribution of the benefits of economic growth throughout society," thereby rendering futile the Communist Party's "strategy of trading economic growth for people's consent to its absolute rule".
