John Tierney has Lawrence H. Summers, the departing president of Harvard, down as the victim of a left-wing coup by disgruntled Harvard professors, somehow rendered invulnerable by the system of academic tenure.
Clearly, these buildings cannot be rendered invulnerable to terrorist attack.
Therefore, wash your hands in bacteria to render yourself invulnerable to antibacterial soap.
Achilles was dipped into the Styx to render him invulnerable – but his heel, of course, was left dry, and that became his downfall.
In another legend, mentioned by the Roman poet Statius (1st century ad), Thetis dipped her son Achilles into the Styx to render him invulnerable; because she held him by his heel, he remained vulnerable there.
He rejects any suggestion that the anti-balaka he has dealt with are a Christian militia, arguing that if you look at their initiation rights and belief in talismans that render wearers invulnerable to bullets and blades, it is plain that they are animists.
The solution was to strengthen Western institutions in order to render them invulnerable to the Soviet challenge, while awaiting the mellowing of the Soviet regime.
In that way, you render yourself invulnerable to the opponent's tactical positioning and attempts to dislodge you from succeeding.
In those days, he went by the name General Butt Naked, because he believed that going into battle naked rendered him invulnerable.
It was staged by a band of people called the Yihequan ("Righteous and Harmonious Fists"), who believed that a mysterious boxing art rendered them invulnerable to harm.
His personal ratings are dire, and his party is polling at 9percentnt, but forces that would crush a lesser leader have somehow rendered him invulnerable.
