(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.
Bound
Definition:
(imp.) of Bind
(p. p.) of Bind
(n.) The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.
(v. t.) To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.
(v. t.) To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
(v. i.) To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.
(v. i.) To rebound, as an elastic ball.
(v. t.) To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
(v. t.) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.
(n.) A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
(n.) Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
(n.) Spring from one foot to the other.
() imp. & p. p. of Bind.
(p. p. & a.) Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.
(p. p. & a.) Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.
(p. p. & a.) Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
(p. p. & a.) Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.
(p. p. & a.) Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.
(p. p. & a.) Constipated; costive.
(v.) Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz.
Example Sentences:
(1) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(2) The results demonstrated that K2PtCl4 was bound to a greater degree than CDDP in this system with 3-5 and 1-2 platinum atoms respectively, bound per transferrin molecule.
(3) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
(4) These results are discussed in relation to the possible existence of enzyme-bound intermediates of nitrogen fixation.
(5) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
(6) For similar inotropic responses, normo- and hyperkalaemic dogs had similar levels of (Na+, K+)-ATPase inhibition and microsomal-bound digoxin.
(7) The penicillin-resistant Enterococcus hirae R40 has a typical profile of membrane-bound penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) except that the 71 kDa PBP5 of low penicillin affinity represents about 50% of all the PBPs present.
(8) Electron spin resonance studies indicate the formation of two vanadyl complexes that are 1:1 in vanadyl and deferoxamine, but have two or three bound hydroxamate groups.
(9) Treatment of the bound F1-ATPase with 4-chloro-7-nitrobenzofurazan prevented complete release of the enzyme by ATP.
(10) Only estrogenic hormones are bound with high affinity.
(11) Plasma for beta-endorphin assay was preincubated with sepharose-bound anti-beta-lipotropin to remove beta-lipotropin that cross-reacted with the beta-endorphin RIA.
(12) I think part of it is you can either go places where that's bound to happen.
(13) Freshly isolated sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles contain 0.05 mol of tightly bound ADP and 0.03 mol of tightly bound ATP per mol of Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.3).
(14) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.
(15) Immunoabsorption studies showed that these four antibodies bound to the same molecule as OKT9, an antibody to the transferrin receptor.
(16) We investigated this suppression quantitatively, using a chemical assay for cell-bound and dissolved capsular polysaccharide.
(17) Only IgG2a and IgG2b myeloma proteins bound readily to IC-21 Fc-receptors, the former in nonaggregated as well as aggregated form, the latter only as aggregated complexes.
(18) When antibodies were bound to cell-surface DPP IV at 4 degrees C, the immune complex remained stable for more than 1 h after rewarming to 37 degrees C, despite ongoing metabolic and membrane transport processes.
(19) Plasmids containing the inverted repeat alone bound ER, though less efficiently than did plasmids containing the entire sequence.
(20) Inhibition of fast axonal transport by an antibody specific for kinesin provides direct evidence that kinesin is involved in the translocation of membrane-bounded organelles in axons.