| Clearly a map or a language would be rendered useless if mere replication replaced representation. |
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| In the West, where fires are more apt to crown firelines as wide as Interstate highways frequently are rendered useless because of the intense conditions of crown fires. |
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| Often, the driver forgets to disengage the flasher after it has served its purpose, resulting in further confusion since turning indicators are rendered useless. |
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| It would be the entirety of downtown Calgary that literally was immobilized and rendered useless as a result of the collapse of those towers. |
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| Even the best-designed and equipped spaces can be rendered useless by inappropriate timetabling, or restrictive health and safety regulations. |
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| The five key mutations could not be reversed first, because the receptor would be rendered useless. |
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| The work requirements of the current welfare law have rendered useless that way of life. |
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| Lab and diagnostic equipment is strewn about, rendered useless. |
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| The later option makes the customer responsible for recycling the stove because it is rendered useless without its doors. |
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| A country looking at its enemy's nuclear weapons will be very nervous if it sees its own retaliatory force being rendered useless. |
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| Governments can also make the requirements for exercising rights so burdensome that the right is rendered useless. |
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| The systems and devices that were most relied upon for day-to-day communications were rendered useless when they were most needed. |
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| Elsewhere WCs have rapidly been rendered useless by people trying to dispose of stones or maize cobs in the toilet. |
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| This method enhances the drink's natural thirst-quenching qualities, while not getting you so blotto so fast that you are rendered useless as a caregiver to small children. |
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| It is also one of the few times when the Dalí Foundation has retained the copper plates, rendered useless, that were employed to print the edition, drawn directly by Dalí himself using drypoint technique. |
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| Finally, in terms of security, the polling machines could be rendered useless by damage to the touch screen, the local computer or the power supply. |
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| We're all rendered useless.' He will have destroyed an entire profession. |
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| This reservoir rendered useless the bottom drainage of the El Chorro dam, which meant that another had to be built in 1935-36, of a similar type to the existing one, at a higher elevation. |
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| Now the IMF as a consequence of the crisis is studying its feasibility and we must insist that expert report is not gutted and rendered useless by backroom lobbying. |
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| Its efforts have now been rendered useless. |
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| The nuclear physics laboratories of the university, consequently, have been rendered useless. |
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| The risk then is that SR and client managers choose not to rely on the information available to them in PeopleSoft, and a potentially valuable management tool is rendered useless. |
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| Genome-wide selection has rendered useless the approach of identifying single genes as having a positive or negative effect on an economically important trait. |
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| Suhr explained that in all cases the weapons and explosives would be rendered useless and that their remains would pose no threat to humans or animals. |
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