Sentences with phrase «rendered worthless»

Goodwin says the couple watched «Prime Time Live,» which showed inferior workmanship on new construction including decks and homes that were rendered worthless by independent inspectors and engineers.

After all, your awesome screen, super-fast processor, and mega-megapixel camera are rendered worthless once your phone runs out of juice.

A rent charge lease effectively creates a deadlock whereby the freehold of a property is ultimately rendered worthless because it is subject to a lease.

The fossil fuel industry was deeply «unsettled» by comments from energy secretary Ed Davey raising the prospect that their assets could be rendered worthless by global action on climate change, according to a letter of protest sent to the secretary of state.

So my understanding is that the most meticulous paleoclimate record could be rendered worthless by calibrating against a temperature record of dubious accuracy.

To stranded plant is added the booked value of trillions of dollars of fossil fuels in the ground soon to be rendered worthless as fuel.

If global warming accelerates, Schneiderman's logic goes, then Exxon would be stuck with fossil fuel reserves rendered worthless by future regulations or a concomitant reduced demand for oil.

Photography, just like this slag material, is perceived by the collective to have become trivialized and rendered worthless through its overabundant supply.

The market would most likely become so saturated to quickly that shorter - term securities would be rendered worthless.

Stock options can also be rendered worthless.

By the time the industry abandoned the floppy - disk and CD - ROM standards, our collections of those disks were rendered worthless.

If we do not tackle drugs all our other efforts to fight crime are rendered worthless,» he said.

3 — I know this may sound diabolical: The repurposed food product, often rendered worthless by all the successive tempering steps taken with it, is at this point marketed and sold as a fantastic food that we worked very hard to make more nutritious and more beneficial than the one we started with.

And free will, precious a gift as it is, is rendered worthless.

Those individuals rendered worthless as producers and commodities by obsolescence — the old and infirm — are discarded (warehoused or euthanized) and the nonproductive poor (the homeless, the unemployed, the irresponsible, the incompetent) are viewed as a threat.

Enron's collapse put more than 5,000 people out of work, wiped out more than $ 2 billion in employee pensions and rendered worthless $ 60 billion in Enron stock.

Forget bricks of bullion, he says, which would be dangerous to carry around in a disintegrating economy, and stay away from certificates that say you own gold or silver in some institutional vault, because those contracts could be rendered worthless.

There is no possibility of a default or mismanagement which renders them worthless.

Webb wrote to Davey a few days later: «[Newspaper] articles reported you backing moves that would encourage investors to think about moving their money out of «risky» fossil fuel assets, suggesting global emissions limits could make hydrocarbon reserves unburnable, therefore stranding assets and rendering them worthless.»

Like airlines, where people routinely do things like eat their winning airline scratchcard (rendering it worthless) because the stewardess doesn't have $ 10,000 in cash on board to hand them during the flight.

Not exact matches

At any time a sovereign state like the United States may ban or prohibit cryptocurrency use and trading and thus render all contracts immediately worthless.

P&G has likely realized that many of its brands were simply getting drowned out, rendering the money spent marketing them effectively worthless.

A dual - class share structure essentially renders the voice of «the people» worthless but with many investors not having a particular insight or inside knowledge of a business and management having a lot of skin in the game, this might not be such a bad thing.

In mathematics, arguments like «obviously» and «clearly» just don't cut it, and the slightest flaw in your logic renders your argument worthless.

I don't care how many times or in how many forms the scenario plays itself out: It is an outrage, a shame and a scandal and a sin, that the old and ill should feel that they are alone with their demons, that those demons render their lives worthless, and that the only sensible, charitable thing to do is to take themselves and the demons as far out of everyone else's way as possible.

Those changes may render the duplicate gene or its protein worthless, and it may disappear.

Most medusa, shown here, are eaten in the wild, rendering their «immortality» worthless.

This renders the fish oil worthless.

The big twist is evident from the get - go, rendering Johnathon Schaech's corrupt cop / red herring completely worthless and making the other characters look stupid for not realizing it.

Melancholia — Is there a better metaphor for depression than an entire planet crashing into Earth, rendering every pointless and everyone worthless?

In the movie's opening bit, he manages to render two new state - of - the - art fighter planes totally worthless and crash his own plane besides.

Suppose you purchase a new vehicle in 2017 for $ 25,000 and two years later when the vehicle is worth $ 15,000 you are in an accident that renders the car worthless.

These two led a study in which contrived methods rendered the work nearly worthless — and then went on to misrepresent the study's implications to the media.

It's amazing how many dog owners fail to register their information, rendering the chip worthless.

This error alone renders Meyer's take worthless — it's as though he enquires about what sort of oats and hay one feeds a Ford Mustang.

Anyway, like I said below in greater detail, the oil & gas industry has 16 years (2030 + / --RRB- to get 80 % (+ / --RRB- of its known reserves out of the ground before the mass adoption of increasingly - stringent renewable energy targets worldwide will render whatever remains in the ground increasingly worthless, and those renewable energy targets will become more - stringent the worse that ongoing climate change presents itself.

Anyway, like I said, the oil & gas industry has 16 years (+ / --RRB- to get 70 - 80 % of its known reserves out of the ground before the mass adoption of increasingly - stringent renewable energy targets worldwide will render whatever remains in the ground increasingly worthless, and those renewable energy targets will become more - stringent the worse that ongoing climate change presents itself.

So while radiative budgeting looks quite attractive from a naive perspective, it is fraught with problems and guesswork that, I believe, render it pretty worthless — at least insofar as being a one - variable descriptor of global - scale climate trends.

Data offer the only solid ground for all these tasks, and failure to rely upon, and test against, evidence from data renders inferences about hypothesized dynamics worthless.»

«The assets could be rendered more or less worthless, given future developments on the energy market,» as well as in climate change policies and laws.

This view seems to logically render all skeptic non-human-causes of global warming worthless, since all predictions would be equally futile.

It is only when migrant Union Citizens apply for permanent residence that the clause is used, to render their last five years worthless.

Now, there is one downside to water - resistant cases that (if handled poorly) renders them as worthless as a regular case when it comes to water protection: the access ports.

The fluctuations not only make predictability of value impossible but also render bitcoins almost worthless.