How To Use Beholden In A Sentence
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He is still as "beholden" as if he had taken it from a lobbyist.
Hillary: Obama Camp Tells Americans One Thing, Foreigners Another
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Disclosures of payments to beholden director's firms also fail to specify the amounts involved.
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_miserable pride_, very absurdly, for disdaine or disdained things cannot be said darke, but rather bright and cleere, because they be beholden and much looked vpon, and pride is rather enuied then pitied or miserable, vnlessse it be in Christian charitie, which helpeth not the terme in this case.
The Arte of English Poesie
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Equipment vendors are often beholden to investors that expect a return on investment.
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The former I suppose to be beholden to a single living filament for their seminal or amatorial procreation; and the latter to the same cause for their lateral or branching generation, which they possess in common with the polypus, tænia, and volvox, and the simplicity of which is an argument in favour of the similarity of its cause.
Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin
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Go into any courtroom and there will preside an independent judge, beholden to no government power.
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They are keeping the poorer nations exactly where they want them: beholden to their patrons.
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While this promise may have been rash, it is clearly one to which he feels beholden.
Times, Sunday Times
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Along the way, he encounters a giant eagle and serpent beholden to the god Utu and struggles against incredible odds to seize upon the magical plant.
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That through your mercy they might obtain mercy, that is, that they may be beholden to you, as you have been to them.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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By agreeing to accept the gift, he is showing his willingness to be beholden to the donor.
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Tactically, however, he is extremely flexible and is beholden to no particular system, encouraging simple, open football.
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They're also looking for people, a leadership that aren't going to be beholden to special interests.
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Alert ALERT why wont alex jones have these guys on the show, because jason and dylan censor their info and alex is beholden to these guys, Jason and Dylan check out the site it shows how they pulled off the pentagon
Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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And if you do not do this, know that you are beholden to render an account before your Lord God Jesus Christ on the day of Judgment.
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Our government is a closed system of two political parties, both beholden to corporate interests.
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As though the infeudation to which Skiljan and Gerrien had appealed for protection was at best a story with which the silth of the packfast justified their robberies to packs supposedly beholden to them.
Doomstalker
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Consequently, this was the group to whom they felt most beholden.
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I find my draught of "The Resolution" come, finished, from Chatham; but will cost me, one way or other, about L12 or L13, in the board, frame, and garnishing, which is a little too much, but I will not be beholden to the King's officers that do it.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
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Within weeks of Elián's arrival in Florida, cyberspace was hosting myriad Eliáns on sites unbeholden to Cuban-U.S. antagonisms.
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That posture suited him well, allowing him to embrace his centrism and remain unbeholden to the left wing of the Democratic Party.
Could Charlie Crist in 2010 Be a Repeat of Joe Lieberman in 2006?
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So, in a sentence like: 'Me and Jenny went to the market', technically you wouldn't have to say 'Jenny and I went to the market', as is common prescriptive usage, because the 'and' forms a compound subject phrase beholden only to itself.
Hopefully...
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Daneel Olivaw, a humaniform positronic robot beholden by the all-important Three Laws of Robotics.
Archive 2010-04-01
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It was an agenda that left him unbeholden to the political left or the right.
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I haven't seen the word felon used, I assume that you made that one up based on the corruption claim which is again pretty much made up by you from people claiming that she is beholden to special interest money.
Leahy Endorses Obama, Likens Him To Bobby Kennedy
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And therefore thei maken ymages lyche to tho thinges, that thei han beleeve inne, for to beholden hem and worschipen hem first at morwe, or thei meeten ony contrarious thinges.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Only Asta, the child he brings up, can pierce his rebatative soul, but she wishes to live unbeholden to him.
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Until these issues are addressed, the U.S. economy will remain beholden to Wall Street's bonus-crazed whims.
Zach Carter: Crony Capitalism: Wall Street's Favorite Politicians
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It's a nice feeling to know that you're not beholden to anything.
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As soldiers, they are beholden to the policies and representatives and executives and judges voted in by the rest of us.
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As of Boxing Day, more than 100,000 people had signed up online for his campaign to fill India's jails with protestors who feel that a bill currently before Parliament will create a toothless ombudsman or lokpal in Hindi beholden to the very politicians it's meant to police.
Delhi's Year of Drama and Stasis
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Those city councils are beholden to the police and fire unions.
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Jeff, he's a master hand to thet kind o 'work, though yer mightn't think it;' n I kin airn right smart at weavin '; jest give me a good carpet-loom,' n I won't be beholden to nobody for vittles.
Ramona
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If a person is beholden to the leadership, he owes something.
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Unlike IRD, the NCC is not beholden to partisan political interests.
National Council of Churches
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URBN, the parent company behind Urban Outfitters, Free People and Anthropologie, launched the new range - bhldn, pronounced "beholden" - this week.
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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How beholden are civic politicians to those who supported them financially?
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The urge to be free, in the sense of unbeholden to anyone, is a defining postcolonial trope.
The Times Literary Supplement
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She wanted to be independent and beholden to no one.
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We are not a people beholden to faddish diets, hung up on tofu, soya, sushi or colon-cleansers.
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He has a reputation for being outspoken, honest, politically incorrect and unbeholden to anyone, and he has a common touch.
The Sun
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He was a great "confabulator," she says, with affection, more beholden to complicated truths than plain facts.
The Appleton Post-Crescent Latest Headlines
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Credit union members knew each other personally and were beholden to each other.
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The idea is that there is a culture out there to which you're beholden.
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While this promise may have been rash, it is clearly one to which he feels beholden.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are not beholden to the dominant Burton / Brown Democratic machine.
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TAll mankind are beholden to him that is kind to the good.
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I have been in business for thirty years, I've always paid my own way, I am beholden to no-one.
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During the campaign, many people worried that Gray would be beholden to certain constituencies that supported him.
Go to Gray's town halls
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While this promise may have been rash, it is clearly one to which he feels beholden.
Times, Sunday Times
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SC, Palace stonewall on ruling Allies harp on need for 'unbeholden' chief justice
WN.com - Articles related to Sibal wants lower lending rates for loans to private players in education
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It is beholden to society to protect the innocent and the vulnerable.
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You'll quickly find out just how beholden he is to his beliefs.
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And when he had long beholden his manner and order sayd: “Your personage doth not degenerate from the fame of your progenitors, but I would fayne knowe, howe pacient you were in the tyme of your pouertie.”
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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If you're not seen to be beholden to one group in a party, people feel you'll deal with them in a fair, even-handed way.
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I don't like to be beholden to anybody, I like to be my own boss.
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He also acknowledges that the industry is now beholden to the regulator.
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The commies in the former USSR and present day China wanted to communize America, and put a sinister plan in place decades ago that consisted of promoting pornography and excessive video game playing to corrupt our youth and make us all beholden to "Big Brother" government.
You said it | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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How unusual and refreshing it is to witness individuals so unbeholden to busy.
Lynn Casteel Harper: The Elimination Of Busy: The Spiritual Discipline Of Being Present
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They think that we can't do it because we are so beholden to the special interests.
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I am doubtless an old fashioned girl: "unbeholden" makes perfect sense to me, meaning "not owing anyone anything" or something like that.
A Word Some Reviewer Will Call Foul
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The athletes in the league now are mouthier, he says, and are less beholden to the idea that all team business should be handled in the locker room.
Who Forgot to Turn Off the NFL?
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This is particularly true of Britain, where the structure remains beholden to an ideal with little of its original significance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even the seemingly goodhearted politicians are irrevocably beholden to their big buck backers.
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Your editorial today is a nicely written spray, which makes good use of your unbeholden position - a very timely contrast to The Age!
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TAll mankind are beholden to him that is kind to the good.
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But the next spring he dights his ship for Denmark, and there he was for another winter, and was well beholden withal, though tidings be not told thereof.
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We are not beholden therefore to any past political history or any particular business gimmick.
Thinking the Unthinkable
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Does he need an overmighty sidekick personally beholden to him as well?
Times, Sunday Times
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It enables people to grow their own food and develop local economies not beholden to either home-grown tyrants or multinational corporations.
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It seemed that every trades-man in the county, from the black-smith to the chandler, came out of the wood-work to proclaim that he was beholden to them.
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As a minister and educator to the hill farmers of north Alabama, Pickens was unbeholden to Bourbon patronage, and he was soon to wield his own printing press.
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They're going to be beholden to folks who are paying for their travel.
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Then pulling out a brass token, resembling a dinar, she said to the maid, who was a simpleton, “Take this ducat and go in to thy mistress and say to her, ‘Umm al-Khayr rejoiceth with thee and is beholden to thee for thy favours, and on the day of assembly she and her daughters will visit thee and handsel the tiring-women with the usual gifts.’”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Yet most judges I know are beholden to Power-by that I mean unalterably pledged to the dominant force of the system.
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The deal included the paying of "greenmail" to so called "funds" that benefit the "community" as well as the usual deals with the local unions politicians like Garcetti are beholden to.
Redevelopment Abuse?
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In today's stage of ‘Financial Arbitrage Capitalism’ the U.S. financial sector has accumulated unprecedented leverage, beholden to the vagaries of the repo and money market for continued refinancing.
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Jeunet, who returned to France after an unsatisfying Hollywood stint on Alien: Resurrection, felt nostalgic himself for a golden age of French cinema unbeholden to the American movie juggernaut.
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He kept his head down in the latter, anxious in particular to avoid falling into conversation with Pompey the Great, fearful that Pompey might ask him to drop his prosecution of Verres and give up his candidacy for aedile or—worse—offer to help, which would leave Cicero beholden to the mightiest man in Rome, an obligation he was determined to avoid.
Imperium
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Huntsman's relatives and friends describe him frequently as an independent thinker, unbeholden to any church or party doctrine.
Let t h e ir games b e gin
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My poem employs the word "unbeholden," meaning not obliged to anyone.
A Word Some Reviewer Will Call Foul
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Those who scorn to submit to the discipline of religion, scorn to take God's yoke upon them, scorn to be beholden to his grace, who scoff at godliness and godly people, and take a pleasure in bantering and exposing them, God will scorn them, and lay them open to scorn before all the world.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts.
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If you go back and read my sentence, "So, why do you think we need an intervenor [sic] like the U.N. in order to speak or be" beholden "to humankind," you'll note that your concept of appeal would flow like this: U.S.
OpEdNews - Diary: THE CITY OF BERKELEY VS THE WAR MACHINE
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Tall mankind are beholden to him that is kind to the good.
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We are beholden to those of our mothers who wanted to keep a beautiful home (no matter how much or how little money they had) and to Martha Stewart and also to Cheryl Mendelson (and her wonderful and very informative book, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House) to a new understanding that housekeeping is a gratifying and civilizing activity.
January Organizing and Housecleaning
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No props or assistance from outside myself: pure, intrinsic, unbeholden.
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It may dovetail with comedy, with stysized bloodbaths and gore, with the thriller and morality-play, but it is not beholden to any of them.
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Despite Obama's victory, there is no sign that our government - trapped by inertia and beholden to hordes of special interests - can confront the biospheric crisis that our species has unleashed on the earth.
Daniel Pinchbeck: Toward 2012
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So what would provoke an exceedingly individualistic, sufficiently unbeholden band to pledge such slavish devotion to a classic rock titan?
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A lot of candidates that you would describe as liberal are beholden to a lot of special interests in order to get elected.
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The issue was not one of releasability per se - more that each individual in the chain felt beholden to check the releasability of the information before actioning any requests.
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They are not beholden to the dominant Burton / Brown Democratic machine.
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Whether Labor or the State as the autocrat is preferable to existing capitalistic control, beholden as it is, in some measure at least, to both Labor and the State, is something to which conditions in Europe at the present time afford an all-sufficient answer.
The Four Parties to Industry
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In contrast, an actor has no vested interests, and isn't particularly beholden to any special interest group.
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The former I suppose to be beholden to a single living filament for their seminal or amatorial procreation; and the latter to the same cause for their lateral or branching generation, which they possess in common with the polypus, tænia, and volvox; and the simplicity of which is an argument in favour of the similarity of its cause.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life