The Shinano had been designed to survive perhaps 20 torpedo hits but had been rendered vulnerable by inadequate and incomplete construction.

By allowing the use of security questions online, they are rendered vulnerable to keystroke logging attacks.

Since those ciphertexts are the plaintexts used by the second cipher, the second cipher may be rendered vulnerable to attacks based on known plaintext properties (see references below).

But it is always the men, so naked in their amorous ambition, who are rendered vulnerable to dangerously uncertain outcomes.

A Federal review of the Edison, N.J., explosion, for example, found the pipeline had been rendered vulnerable to leaks after it was gouged by a backhoe some time before.

They bear this responsibility not only that the patients may receive safe and competent nursing care but that the nurses working in those settings are not rendered vulnerable by excessive pressure.

To this she adds a post-feminist toughness in which different aspects of the feminine are flaunted, exaggerated or rendered almost humiliatingly vulnerable.

If the words or components of a passphrase may be found in a language dictionary-especially one available as electronic input to a software program-the passphrase is rendered more vulnerable to dictionary attack.

His bench has been left bare, his defensive alignment rendered vulnerable more than once as a result of the manager's appetite for changes.

Halsey's withdrawal of all six of Lee's battleships in his attempt to assist Seventh Fleet had now rendered TF 38 vulnerable to a surface counterattack by the decoy Northern Force.