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Beholden
Beholden meaning
Obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; indebted, obliged for a bounden duty.
Synonyms of Beholden
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And I actually think the ABC has a responsibility not to be beholden to agendas, or to be beholden to the loudest people in the room, or the loudest critics that will criticise anyway, so you might as well stand up and tell the stories.
They’re no longer beholden to the customer, the customer is beholden to them.
And as it relates to sexual health business, it's always been a good source of revenue, so that we can partially fund our clinical development and we're not beholden to the marketplace.
Coinbase is by the far the largest U.S.-based crypto exchange, and as such it is beholden to U.S. laws.
Eden said the president would “never sign a bill like this,” because Democrats are “beholden” to teachers’ unions.
Greene replied, saying it is Biden who is beholden to the extremist leftists.
However, video games are even more beholden to tropes than other media.
In the wake of this year’s Pokémon World Championships event, Takato Utsunomiya, chief operating officer at The Pokémon Company, was asked if the company is indeed beholden to a specific release schedule for the Pokémon games.
She was also the victim of a school system that was beholden and dedicated to the trans agenda, a lawyer who placed her own interest above her client’s, and a judge, doctors, and counselors who wanted to push the aforementioned agenda.
The episode does raise concern that NATO could be beholden to nationalist self-interest in the future – but this is always a risk in a consensus-based organization of sovereign countries.
The Saudi government has also taken on a role similar to the International Monetary Fund, which gives it even greater sway than before over regional politics, with larger nations like Pakistan effectively beholden to it.
Those movies, along with “Folie à Deux,” belong to their own universe called DC: Elseworlds, which means they are not beholden to Gunn and Safran’s vision for the future of DC.
Under the terms of the Stevens Act, the government does not fund Olympics sports in the United States, leaving thousands of athletes largely beholden to money derived from sponsorships, media contracts (mostly from NBC) and fundraising.
Winning demands significant funding and resources, and defendants are beholden to the volatility of opinions from jury members who almost certainly don’t have a background in musicology.
Yanukovych was corrupt, despotic and beholden to Moscow.
You also live with your husband, not your mother, so you aren’t beholden to her rules or choices any longer.
Although Mr Netanyahu has ruled out restoring Jewish settlements in Gaza, he remains beholden to far-right parties who threaten to collapse his coalition if he signs a “reckless” ceasefire deal to bring home Israeli hostages currently held by Hamas.
But far fewer people are now beholden to the housing market for wealth-building than previous generations.
I’m beholden to Dionna, Genesis, Maya, Joia and Corinne, and Nala.
Kristin Hull, founder of Tesla investor Nia Impact Capital, described the board as beholden to Musk, a problem she said is common at other big technology companies.