McMurphy does not respond, and Chief realizes that he has been rendered helpless by a lobotomy.
Sometimes, he says, an expensive car, its occupants rendered helpless by truant domestic help, will drive into a slum looking for them.
Across the way, Anthony Thompson, a Navy medic rendered helpless by a truck bomb in Iraq, was patted lovingly by his wife, Ivonne.
She left her job several years ago to care for her son, Erik, who was rendered helpless by a sniper's bullet in Iraq.
Wake Forest (4-2, 2-1) was rendered helpless by a defense that had two weeks to think about its problems against Virginia.
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.
But this is a mature, intelligent and passionate play and it boasts stupendous performances from Mikey North as Darryl and Mary Jo Randle as Rita, a good woman rendered helpless by the punches life throws.
In Steubenville, Ohio, high school football players are accused of repeatedly raping an unconscious 16-year-old girl who was either drunk or rendered helpless by a date-rape drug and was apparently lugged like a sack of potatoes from party to party.
Each entry is an avatar of outrage over the depredations of power against its multifarious victims, those rendered helpless by poverty, religion, race, sexual identity or — as in the vignettes about Galileo and Isaac Babel — the simple accident of being right when the truth defined by the prevailing authority was wrong.
"Once Eubank feels those hooks crushing into his ribs, his hands will come down and he will be rendered helpless by the third round". Eubank stopped Benn in the ninth, before their second fight, nearly three years later, ended in a draw.
But we are not at all rendered helpless by this billion-dollar industry.
