1.   Two of the Kamalians only needed a couple of metres of the wire to render him helpless and under continual self-torture.

2.   If he could behave like that towards a woman he had once loved, a woman rendered helpless, what could she herself expect in the future?

3.   Again, the Bruins have faults aplenty to render them helpless against any opponent.

4.   But when her boys fought with each other in the car or refused to pick up their dishes from the living-room, she was rendered helpless.

5.   Fuqua went to the pinnacle of business success by fits and starts, as the illness pounced without warning, rendering him helpless, then retreated.

6.   Goalie Andy Moog was rendered helpless.

7.   If Coleman can render Coley helpless with one punch, imagine what might happen against De La Hoya.

8.   Last week the state charged that Simpson killed his victims in a short violent attack, which rendered them helpless to resist.

9.   Scientists have found a gene defect that causes a rare, lethal disease in boys, rendering them helpless to attack from a virus that most people harbor harmlessly.

10.   The FBI rendered helpless, even as agents mounted the most sophisticated manhunt in U.S. history.