"rendering themselves" is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe someone taking a certain action or behavior, usually for a specific purpose or result. Here is an example: "The protesters marched through the streets, rendering themselves visible and vocal in their fight for social justice." In this sentence, "rendering themselves" is used to show that the protesters intentionally made themselves seen and heard in order to bring attention to their cause.
Until now, they had existed only in theory, since by definition they swallow all light in their vicinity, rendering themselves invisible to conventional telescopes.
I have mostly been discussing smaller releases, but the big studios have also, in effect, been buying themselves coverage — rendering themselves un-ignorable by dint of sheer advertising volume.
Hundreds of millions of times a day, music player owners jam little white discs into their ears without a thought, rendering themselves both deaf and rude to the outside world.
Engineers are even rendering themselves obsolete by automating the very thing they are critical for: thinking and making things.
When a predator shines a bioluminescent searchlight on them, these animals will stretch out, enlarging pigmented proteins and rendering themselves opaque.
Come its worldwide release day, August the 23rd, there's a fair chance that several franchise fans will have already popped, rendering themselves very dead and therefore unable to pick up a pad for some adventure time with augmented protagonist Adam Jensen.
All the wannabe Verves have rendered them commonplace, and meanwhile, the real Verve have rendered themselves indistinguishable.
The question is whether they indulge that temptation for so long that they render themselves irrelevant to the economy.
"Those professions that do not change will render themselves obsolete," says Dr Frank Shaw, foresight director at the Centre for Future Studies.
I was wholly ignorant of the bitter irony that in constantly seeking certainty, pure O-ers render themselves more uncertain.
It's not that those aren't great guitars, but they render themselves impractical and unfunctional for a person like me because of their weight".
