Sentence examples for was rendered inoperable from inspiring English sources

The treatment plant was rendered inoperable.

Moored in Puerto Belgrano from 1948 on, the ship was rendered inoperable in 1951 and cannibalized for many years for useful arms and equipment.

Problems soon arose, including, as Clarke recounts, a 1997 incident when the USS Yorktown, a Ticonderoga-class cruiser whose ship operations were administered on computers running Windows NT, was rendered inoperable after Windows crashed.

Princess Royals 'A' turret stopped working effectively early in the battle: the left gun was rendered inoperable when the breech pinion gear sheared, and the right gun misfired frequently.

The back-up systems that were in place have also been rendered inoperable.

An inflatable boat, important for quick attacks on the whaling ships, is rendered inoperable when its propeller is started up in shallow, rocky water.

Later, Mr. Osmakac allegedly put $500 as a down payment on the items, which had been rendered inoperable by law enforcement.

When consumers reported to providers that their cellphone had been stolen, the phone, like a stolen credit card, would be rendered inoperable.

Researchers at Shadowserver, a volunteer group that tracks malicious network activity, reported that the Web site of the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, had been rendered inoperable for 24 hours by multiple D.D.O.S. attacks.

"What I'm talking about is creating a kill switch so that when the phone gets reported stolen, it can be rendered inoperable in any configuration or carrier," he said.

In viscerosensation this is particularly true for the taste system where, for example, mouse taste bud cells expressing the receptor molecule that is responsive to bitter stimuli have been engineered to express fluorescence, or to be rendered inoperable, and identified as distinct from cells expressing sweet and umami receptors.