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Example sentences for: beholden

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Forbes' spin: He's "not beholden" to interest groups.
5) Analysts worry that Kabila is too beholden to foreign-backed Tutsi military commanders, who may persecute Hutus and inflame ethnic tensions.
In a business sense, the deal may make all these Condé Nast magazines less beholden to any single advertiser, which in turn will allow the company to drive harder bargains.
Efforts to detect and deter fraud and abuse due to these conflicts, he said, “will be likely to be undermined as long as those charged with detecting fraud and abuse, like the [Pennsylvania] Inspector General, are appointed by politicians who are themselves beholden to the drug industry.
The style is naturalistic; the plot is your basic love triangle, with a lesbian twist: Adele, whose butch forthrightness makes her an obvious stand-in for Stein, falls for a frustrating coquette, Helen, who returns her love but can't commit because she's already beholden to Mabel, a rich, withered-spinster type.