Sentence examples for rendering worthless from inspiring English sources

Some of their assets are iffy, including various stakes in Russia's state-owned banks and debt issued by Ukraine that Mr Putin's own aggression is fast rendering worthless.

But any company whose profits have not grown rapidly has been shunned, making it vulnerable to takeover as well as rendering worthless the vast piles of stock options given to senior management.

According to one story, Cibber encouraged his son to lead the actors in a walkout and set up for themselves in the Haymarket, rendering worthless the commodity he had sold.

Mr. Waxman countered that the upshot of Mr. Walters's argument was that Monsanto's patents would be rendered worthless.

Schoolteachers and other professionals — their salaries rendered worthless by Zimbabwe's hyperinflation — come to work as housekeepers and menial laborers.

Some were no doubt issued to make up for previous grants that had been rendered worthless by tumbling stock prices.

As part of the rescue, the common stock and some classes of preferred were rendered worthless, or so the government assumed.

Financial experts, including the Bank of England and Goldman Sachs, have begun taking seriously the risk that expensive fossil fuel projects will be rendered worthless by future climate action.

Gift-card sales are expected to suffer this year on widely publicized fears that they'll be rendered worthless by failing retailers.

(Numerous media accounts have pointed out that millions of dollars in unused Sharper Image gift cards were probably rendered worthless when that chain went bankrupt).

But analysts warned that other Stuyvesant Town lenders, particularly those who gave secondary loans that might be rendered worthless by the foreclosure, could object, delaying any kind of resolution.