All but two of Japan's 50 reactors remain shut after a magnitude-9 earthquake and an ensuing tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station last year, causing meltdowns and radiation leaks that have rendered areas around the plant uninhabitable for decades.
Deployment of mustard gas, which remains toxic in an area for a long time, could be intended to render areas of the battlefield inaccessible to opposition fighters.
It was common for artists, when using pen and ink without resort to wash, to render areas of darkness and shadow by means of cross-hatching.
Mass evacuation from a particular area is necessary when volcanic hazards threaten the safety of those within the area (pre-impact) or following the impact of a hazard which has subsequently rendered the area uninhabitable (post-impact).
It's hard to think of many books for a general audience that have rendered any area of modern science and technology with such intelligence, accessibility, and compassion.
The quantity of deadly cesium-137 that could be released from the Indian Point nuclear plant's highly radioactive "spent" fuel -- currently stored in "uncontained" butler shacks -- is 17 times the amount released from Chernobyl, which contaminated 1,000 square miles and rendered an area 100 miles around the plant permanently uninhabitable.
His rulings on white reserved areas rendered the Group Areas Act, a bulwark of segregation, almost unenforceable.
The fact that the services themselves are rendered offline in areas that the government has traditionally regulated only complicates matters.
These are not carriers of disease, but their presence in bloodthirsty swarms had rendered large areas of coastal Florida uninhabitable until control — of an uneasy and temporary nature — was established.
The recent deluges have since rendered those areas at the Stretford Road End of the ground as little more than a boggy mess, meaning it was a formality that the first day of the County Championship match between Lancashire and Hampshire was called off at 1pm yesterday.
