Mendes considered the story's theme to be about how children deal with violence, and whether exposure to violence would render children violent themselves.

Unfortunately, prolonged exposure to air rendered the chemicals unstable after two or three hours.

When chlorine was used as a disinfecting agent, a relatively short exposure to air after a water sample was drawn would render the water acceptable for use.

By now, repeated exposure to the Bartok quartets, which still sound gritty and audacious, has rendered them, well, popular.

This exposure to internationally acclaimed rugby stars rendered Skonk one of the most recognised faces in South African rugby.

A common myth among radar and microwave communication workers is that the exposure of the genital area to microwaves renders a man sterile for about a day.

The judge, the prosecution and the defense must try to ascertain whether exposure to such accounts renders prospective jurors unable to be impartial.

At one point, exposure renders him blind, and while blinded, he encounters another man (described to be French) lost at sea, also blinded by exposure.