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Beholden


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Behold
  • (p. a.) Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "All the people in Nigel's circle are yes-people, who are beholden to him for money," he says.
  • (2) Four years ago, Barack Obama raised a huge campaign war chest of his own, but insisted he did not want to be beholden to outside groups.
  • (3) He said it would be unfair for the whole of the UK to have a future government that was “beholden on the Scottish nationalist votes” in the next parliament.
  • (4) Mr Trump is self-funding his campaign and is not beholden to these big money donors of Wall Street or any other group,” a spokeswoman said.
  • (5) He’s the ultimate Gary Stu character: a billionaire beholden to no one and able to abuse every disingenuous and pettifogging remora latched headfirst on the nation and sucking upward.
  • (6) "The thing that excites me most is that JJ Abrams and his team had access to those full notes and had the opportunity to do some question and answer sessions with George about them, while also not being beholden to them.
  • (7) But movements such as Black Lives Matter and the affiliated Campaign Zero are pushing black voters, as The New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander noted on Facebook , to understand that they are not beholden to anyone, that “we have a choice [about who they support].
  • (8) He is very much beholden to the right wing of his own Liberal party, including his Peter Dutton, his ultra-conservative minister for immigration and border protection.
  • (9) North Korea rocket launch: UN security council condemns latest violation Read more North Korea’s government may not be beholden to voters, but that doesn’t mean the public is ignored – especially not the army of party officials, security personnel and soldiers who implement Kim family rule.
  • (10) I don't want to be beholden to Apple (iCloud) or Google (Picasa), so what's the best cloud storage software that will sync with my iPhone and iPad?
  • (11) And it is the culture of newspapers – at worst being beholden to some megalomaniac proprietor, but never to the institutions of the state – which fosters a "cat-may-look-at-a-king" arrogance that underpins important freedoms, and is part of our history as a nation.
  • (12) "We are independent of all political parties and beholden to no one individual or group.
  • (13) Defence is an area where governments are notoriously beholden to archaism and special interests – and where oppositions have a duty of challenge.
  • (14) "He's going to have to show that, while he follows the general course that Uribe has set, he is not beholden to Uribe," Eric Farnsworth, the vice-president of the Council of the Americas , said.
  • (15) "Mr Burke is beholden to the Greens who feed him dishonest and deceitful assertions about our government's actions," Seeney said.
  • (16) With security uncertain and Syria’s government beholden not to the west but to Russia, the likelihood is that Unesco will retreat into its familiar indecision and bickering.
  • (17) A spokesperson for Aldi said: “Unlike other retailers, once we have agreed terms with suppliers we do not change them midway through the agreement or ask for additional monies to support better positioning of goods or increased shelf space … Aldi is a privately owned company and therefore not beholden to City shareholders… We do not need to generate the same gross margin as others in the sector to deliver strong and stable profits.” Supermarket clout is one issue: what is being done to our animals to get fatter livestock, ever quicker, is another.
  • (18) Even if you can suppress all humanitarian impulses, it is not in the west's interest to have an Assad regime more beholden to Iran than ever on the shores of the Mediterranean.
  • (19) It’s the large companies that have driven the direction of corporate tax policy.” The result is a stratum of businesses that is not beholden to the same social settlement as previous generations.
  • (20) Respected on all wings of the party, but beholden to none of them, and bearing a legendary tribal name, over the last few weeks Benn has been climbing quietly up the lists of potential Corbyn successors.

Beholding


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Behold
  • (a.) Obliged; beholden.
  • (n.) The act of seeing; sight; also, that which is beheld.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
  • (2) It’s good to hear a full-throated defence of social security as a basic principle of civilisation, and a reiteration of the madness of renewing Trident; pleasing too to behold how much Burnham and Cooper have had to belatedly frame their arguments in terms of fundamental principle.
  • (3) The engines, gearboxes and even the doors now have a complexity that sees them constructed elsewhere, but the transformation on this line of the dull sheen of aluminium parts into a moving vehicle at the other end is still something to behold.
  • (4) Behold "The Spire", a 398ft needle penetrating the sky; symbol of Dublin's thrusting modernity (or, cynics suggest, the grip heroin holds on some parts of the city).
  • (5) The Queen of the Night by Marc Behm Behm, an American settled in France, wrote one of the great novels of obsessive detective fiction, The Eye of the Beholder.
  • (6) Behold this from our deputy first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, doing her best Michael Howard impersonation: "Right now, convicted prisoners who are serving prison sentences do not get to vote, and I do not consider that there is a good argument for changing the position for the referendum."
  • (7) On Obama's mandate for climate change action Mandates are sometimes in the eye of the beholder but I think all who look at these circumstances should agree that president Obama does have a mandate, should he choose to use it, to act boldly to solve the climate crisis, to begin solving it.
  • (8) The extent to which the hard right will go to perpetuate their views, and frankly, their prejudice, is a sight to behold.
  • (9) Greece's determination in this World Cup was a thing to behold and, their reputation unfairly traduced, they brought a fair bit of quick-breaking flair to the table too.
  • (10) The best contributions tell the truth, or if not the truth (a vexatious and flexible concept, given history’s tendency to be somewhat in the eye of the beholder) – then at least truth according to the person providing the story.
  • (11) Described as Blencathra's "shining beacon" by Alfred Wainwright, who also wrote that the sight of it at close quarters was sufficient "to make a beholder forget all other worries, even a raging toothache", Sharp Edge is a Lake District accident blackspot.
  • (12) Its headline was to be “Behold the demons we have unleashed”.
  • (13) And when we get together, lo and behold, we always remember it, it’s always there for us.
  • (14) "Lo and behold when Michael McCaskey called me and offered me this job it's kind of how it turned out.
  • (15) But for all that it is the awkward and prickly child of UK rave, the tenacity, love and enthusiasm within the grime scene is something to behold.
  • (16) Lo and behold, Charlotte Hole, second from the left in the front row in this picture, totes what the Mail says is a £1,100 Mulberry handbag.
  • (17) The faux-outrage from the right about the AWU cozying up to employers is something to behold, given that conservatives have long insisted the Labor party distance itself from precisely those unions that win the best outcomes for their members.
  • (18) When they occur, they are delightful to behold and should be cherished.
  • (19) I went in person on my lunch hour and, lo and behold, was told for the very first time that my party designation can only ever be changed during November each year,” he explained.
  • (20) Lo and behold, I had this Trump table down there,” Snover said.

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