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.
Scattered by tear-gas grenades, rubber bullets and water cannons, the angry miners — armed with traditional spears and machetes and amped up on potions they believed rendered them invulnerable to bullets — rushed into an area boxed off by police armor and spools of razor wire.
It's all a little reductive and soap-operaish, and viewers unfamiliar with the source material may find themselves a little puzzled about the relationship between the evil characters Alberich and Hagen, or even to learn, almost as an afterthought, that bathing in the dragon's blood has rendered Siegfried invulnerable.
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.
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.
