Sentences with phrase «of rendering it useless»

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Kim said there were two additional, larger tunnels that remain «in a very good condition» at the Punggye - ri test site beyond the existing one, which experts have said had collapsed after repeated explosions, rendering much of the site useless.

«Now, you can't rely on the shadow payment system of using the high - value currency notes because they were rendered useless.

The Indian prime minister made a surprise announcement on Nov. 8 that the aforementioned notes, which account for more than 80 % of currency in circulation in India, would be rendered useless, in order to curb India's black market.

According to reports, Macron's digital team created dummy accounts, or honeypots, that looked like an individual's account with top level information from the campaign, but much of the contents was fake — planted specifically to render a data dump confusing, if not useless, since it would take a tremendous amount of time for reporters and citizen journalists to sort out the real from the fake.

Kim said there were two additional, larger tunnels that remain «alive and well» at the Punggye - ri test site beyond the existing one, which experts have said had collapsed after repeated explosions, rendering much of the site useless.

«As it was, the program would have been rendered useless,» Dorfman said, pointing to the required admission of discrimination and the limited number of applicable industries.

The business plan: Increase the value of Goldfinger's own considerable gold holdings by detonating a «dirty» nuclear warhead inside the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Ky., rendering the American gold reserve radioactive and useless for 58 years.

In Gillian Tett's latest book, she not only examines the negative impacts of silos but explores how to scale them and render silos useless.

Commissioner Piwowar, the lone naysayer, says the complexity of the new fundraising tool will ultimately render it inefficient and useless.

Georgia Congressman Tom Price has been cleared as the next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services after an ugly confirmation battle which included Senate Democrats boycotting his vote by a key panel (a tactic that was rendered useless as the majority Republicans changed committee rules to push his nomination forward).

There may be a small glimmer of hope for Chinese citizens concerned about their privacy, however — a recent report in the South China Morning Post found that China's notorious smog problem has rendered much of the country's expensive surveillance system «useless.»

While the company eventually posted elaborate directions on how to remove the component on its site, doing so rendered many of the features of the suitcase useless.

As the lighter portions of the spill begin to evaporate, the progressively heavier bitumen would likely begin to sink — rendering useless the conventional clean - up equipment designed to recover floating oil.

The concept is billed as a sharding project that developers can work on without wondering whether the ongoing shifting of the sharding goalposts will later render their contributions useless.

This immediately renders the number of bookshops useless as a proxy for literacy, unless one can find another output measure that can be used to adjust the number of bookshops, perhaps the number of titles on offer or revenue per shop.

For this reason, Trump getting rid of the mortgage - interest deduction would effectively be the more populist position in comparison to the April «backdoor» version that protects it politically while rendering it useless to most people.

That's because a wide number of variables, many of which can't be predicted, can make the markets move in one direction or the other and render useless even the best research and analysis.

We are deeply concerned that the Investment Company Institute (ICI) Letter lays out a set of changes to the Proposed Rule which wold effectively negate the derivatives exposure limits in the rule and render them useless as a tool for controlling speculative leverage at registered funds, as is required by the 1940 Act.

One conclusion from this episode is that learning about the stock market may feed back into the market and, by changing the behavior of the market, render our «learning» useless or — if we don't recognize the feedback effect — hazardous.

In fact, some have already capitulated, conveniently blaming the central banks for rendering their religious beliefs useless, possibly just as these turncoats» own business began to be impacted by their unfortunate asset mix of the past 5 years.

A bill passed the lower chamber that would render useless state laws in the majority of states, including the 15 states and -LSB-...]

A bill passed the lower chamber that would render useless state laws in the majority of states, including the 15 states and the District of Columbia where state interest rate limits prevent payday lending.

The Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., with which I am pleased to be affiliated, was founded in the 1970s in large measure to combat the perception that an intellectually and morally impoverished understanding of the dominant American religious traditions had rendered those traditions useless, or (as in the lamentable presidency of Jimmy Carter) worse than useless in guiding Americans» thinking about a sensible and responsible foreign policy.

I suddenly had my account rendered useless, and many of my posts just disappeared as if I never existed.

The average life - span in those days was around 45 years — the likelihood of any original eyewitnesses still being around to testify to the Gospel authors is extremely low, not to mention the fact that even the classical historian Josephus said that 20 years is long enough to render witness testimony useless.

«History» as a category is too impoverished to contain it, and the usual historiocritical questions about the relative probability of different explanations are rendered useless.

But the mystery of human freedom and the requirement of justice itself to treat like cases with a like response render that ideal virtually useless in the criminal justice system.

I mean Jesus had a few decent ideas, but the bas * tar * dization of those ideas immediately following renders most of the NT useless and downright dangerous imho.

Whey protein, for example, is a loaded with beta - lactoglobulin, alpha - lactalbumin, lactoferrin, and immunoglobulins — all of which can be rendered useless when the protein is denatured.

You can leave the ripe ones on the plant but if it takes too long for the rest of them to ripen, the older pods will shrivel and dry up, rendering them useless for pickling.

It is totally unenforceable, which renders it useless, and is another attempt by politicians to place a «legal fix» upon what is really just an economic fact of life brought on by changing times, NAFTA, and the ability of farmers in other countries to grow New Mexican varieties to meet the demand here.

It doesn't sound too traumatic, and in truth it isn't despite the stitches, but the location of the injury has rendered my right foot useless, and in an effort to control the swelling I've been sitting with my leg elevated, binge - watching Netflix while eating watermelon and drinking iced green tea.

He joked about this because the Halo limits the view of the driver's helmets, rendering the often race - specific, well thought - out designs on the lid a bit useless.

It doesn't render the data useless, it just shows that no one can trust any of your conclusions from said data.

The slightest crack or chip renders a clay target useless, and whole cases of clays are frequently damaged in shipping or handling before they ever reach the trap or skeet house.

I had to create a username before I was done reading this, this person hates Arsenal and is winding us up on purpose, Wenger is killing his image and that of Arsenal, Im rendered useless being an Arsenal fan for the manager only.

wow are we sterile up top, goals need to come from defense again, ozil & cech were great, mert once again taking the brunt of bad comments meanwhile a clean sheet and did nothing wrong, open goal that was saved was kos out of position and monreal caught up the pitch too high, giroud has great ball skills, issue is his position on the pitch, watched the match again focused on giroud, he tends to camp behind the defender from the ball, this only works when you have the quickness to break, he does nt, I have screen shots where ozil is 25 yrds farther up the pitch then giroud, thisis the problem, he is rendered useless unless ozil holds up, and thats not ozils strength, thus very few sog's from giroud on the run, when giroud gets lucky w space in front of the defender, he is lethal, but needs to get into that space,

You get 2 types of fast: with and without the ball, if you ever watch Walcott he is rubbish when it comes to running with a ball rendering his pace useless!

If anything these players have contributed to our problems by being injured for most of the season rendering them useless.

Both men have a tendency to get caught up in following their mark and ending up deeper than the rest of the defensive line though, rendering the offside trap useless.

His dribbling skills make him a half - decent player to bring off your bench, but his sheer lack of intelligence and surprisingly poor finishing renders him almost useless.

Instead Arsene continues to bench him or play him on the wings which renders the bulk of his creative skills useless and Cathola continues to plays matches like there's no tomorrow.

The movement of Arsenal's players, though, rendered Eddie Howe's tactics useless inside 10 minutes.

As most of you know, conventional diaper creams create a barrier on your cloth diapers which, over time, will prevent absorption and render your diapers useless.

The only way to relieve the tension is to pull the base of the hood right up and over her head, but this clearly poses a suffocation hazard (and renders the hood useless).

Who would have guessed that the Assembly, acting on behalf of the teachers unions, would want to destroy the cap by adding exemptions to it that would render it useless..

However, some Tory MPs are wary of the Government's plan to introduce a «House Business Committee» which would, it is alleged, replace or render useless the existing BBBC.

Such statistics formed the basis of the symposium's argument: that smart gun technology would save lives by rendering useless stolen weapons or guns that wind up in the hands of unauthorized users, including children.

In the carnivores, the bitter sensing genes had slowly built up random mutations that rendered many of them useless.

But experts worry that typical limitations of such vaccines — short shelf life, rigid refrigeration requirements, an inability to adapt to new mutations — will render the vaccine useless under real - world circumstances.