Sentences with phrase «rendering them useless as»

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).

I mean, we've got estimates for days, but an honest confidence interval around them renders them useless as policy guidelines.

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.

Not only that, but it does not recline which essentially renders it useless as you need somewhere your baby can comfortably sleep - even after 6 months.

The team was attempting to measure water in the acid because too much moisture would render it useless as an oxidizer for rocket fuel.

In fact, he goes so far as to imply that classroom observations are not predictive at all, rendering them useless as a source of diagnostic feedback.

The near constant background music, lack of relatable characters and lackluster direction also does its very best to ensure that no sense of tension ever manages to slip into the film, which renders it useless as a slasher, either.

Not only does this seemingly render them useless as they stand and wait for you to unblock, but you can often cheap them to death by unblocking long enough to throw a quick jab.

As a result, Bitcoin had higher average transaction fees and longer confirmation times than your typical bank wire transfer, essentially rendering it useless as a currency for most users and merchants.

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There's an offline mode as well, so losing an Internet connection doesn't render the app useless.

Instagram and Facebook have also gone dark, as has tacobell.com, rendering the website essentially 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.

As technology analyst Ben Thompson points out, Facebook is quite right when it says that most news sites load too slowly and look terrible, rendering the ads on those pages largely 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.

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.

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.

«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.

Having the fats and the liquids warm will help you pack in all the ingredients such as the oats, without rendering your stirring arm useless in the process.

as my mini processor and i are on a break (i cut my finger pretty badly while cleaning the blade and rendered myself useless for like a week) i attempted to use my immersion blender.

This legume is also shockingly high in anti-nutrients such as potent enzyme inhibitors which upset protein metabolism and phytic acid which binds to many nutrients (calcium, magnesium, copper, iron and zinc for example), rendering them useless to the body.

Antibiotic use is a big issue as the more we use, the more likely bugs are to grow resistant, rendering them useless.

Only hope to score more goals than Real or score as many goals as possible to render the 2nd leg useless.

As soon as most players hit 30, their arms and legs disintegrate entirely rendering them completely uselesAs soon as most players hit 30, their arms and legs disintegrate entirely rendering them completely uselesas most players hit 30, their arms and legs disintegrate entirely rendering them completely useless.

shame on u wneger... even the refs and linesman did all they could to prevent the score line from been disgraceful by turning deaf ears to true penalty calls that could have made the game 9 - 1... shout out to ospina he held his head high enough... as for ozil he wouldn't even smell Bayern's 2nd eleven if going to Bayern is what he has in mind... lastly how can a 32 year old robben do things that even all our wingers out together cant... he totally rendered gibbs useless..

As a result, the stroller is now nearly impossible to turn, rendering it useless.

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.

President Trump's tax plan may render the country's cherished mortgage - interest tax deduction useless to as many as 25 million Americans, according to new analysis...

Another, butanal, prevented the CO2 sensors from working, while 2,3 - butanedione functioned as a blinder, flooding mosquitoes» sensors with signals, thereby rendering them useless.

Common sense says that you can't combine the Grignard reagent and the Lewis Acid, as the Grignard reagent is a base which will react with the acid, rendering both useless.

The specter of a pandemic strain that's resistant to oseltamivir — also known as Tamiflu — worries flu experts because it could render countries» massive stockpiles of the drug useless.

The finding, published in today's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, boosts fears that some insects could quickly develop resistance to these pesticides, bacterial proteins known as Bt toxins, and render them useless.

Its charge is frequently cited as the reason the clay should never, ever come into contact with metal of any kind, lest the clay be rendered useless or harmful.

She said the yogurt contained so little probiotic as to render it useless.

Most people set the safety bars so low as to render them useless for safety.

Let's take pushups for example — potentially a brilliant chest as well as shoulder stability exercise, but the way most people perform and progress with them renders them (almost) useless.

Somehow the brilliant cinematographer Christopher Doyle shot this, and his images came out disconnected and flat, as if they were put together wrong; or maybe it's just the odd, leaden, nonsensical pace of this thing that just render Doyle's images useless.

The cultures that breed failure in the central bureaucracy tend to extend into schools, especially since collective bargaining agreements and state laws essentially render principals mere figureheads stuck with useless roles as «instructional leaders».

As such, those failures render words like ferocious, vicious, comically absurd, and illogical useless.

Installing a child - safety seat behind the driver's seat may also render the center rear seat useless, as the car seat will extend over the top of the center seat belt's anchor point.

Her stage fright, unexpected as it is, renders her useless, and she doesn't answer a single question.

Moving to Apple won't fix the problem as there are lots of stories on the web of people with older Apple hardware updating to a new ios and finding it renders the device laggy and useless.

Since authors have to make sure they cover the largest possible market share, however, using tables made no sense, as the Kindle 1 did not support them and rendered them in a useless, garbled fashion.

Under powered single speaker systems that are ill placed and tinny as hell, can render a tablet useless for content consumption without headphones.

Research in Motion (RIM), the company behind the fading Blackberry devices are giving away a handful of application worth almost $ 100 as compensation for the Blackberry service outage that had rendered a lot of the devices all around the world useless for quite some time.

The fact its a Samsung device, renders it as a useless device that will lack upgrades.

As web access gets faster more apps will become browser based and thus maybe the app store will be rendered useless?

He rolled the positions on a four - weekly basis, which may be difficult to do in practice (as Aswath Damodaran pointed out yesterday, many a slip twixt cup and the lip renders a promising back - tested strategy useless in the real world).