(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.
Indebted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Indebt
(a.) Brought into debt; being under obligation; held to payment or requital; beholden.
(a.) Placed under obligation for something received, for which restitution or gratitude is due; as, we are indebted to our parents for their care of us in infancy; indebted to friends for help and encouragement.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We were the ones with the most over-indebted banks, the most over-indebted households and we had the biggest budget deficit of virtually any country, anywhere in the world.
(2) From being the eurozone's most indebted nation, Greeks can now expect to see their debt load cut to 124% of GDP in 2020 from the projected 190% of national outlay in 2014, under a package of measure that include a bond buy-back and various interest rate cuts on official loans.
(3) Mexico were indebted to a remarkable goalkeeping display when they shared the points with Brazil, and though Guillermo Ochoa’s stock has risen dramatically since that game, he might not be able to repeat the feat twice in a row.
(4) It positioned Kelela as a significant new vocalist, her phrasing indebted to pop but somehow elegantly haunting.
(5) French lenders Société Générale, BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole fell between 6.7% and 8% as rumours persisted that the extent of their bad loans to indebted eurozone countries would lead to France losing its AAA status within the next few days.
(6) In Athens at the weekend, Wen attempted to smooth over relations between China and the west by offering support for the euro and suggesting that China would participate in auctions of indebted nations' government bonds, including Greece, as they seek to refinance their struggling economies.
(7) It also means that both the public and private sector in Slovenia is heavily indebted.
(8) Speaking at the start of the G20 Summit in Seoul , the prime minister said the real test for the summit would be its ability sort out the big battle between the indebted west and the surplus economies of the east.
(9) American forensic medicine is forever indebted to pioneers like George Magrath of Boston, Milton Helpern of New York, LeMoyne Snyder of Michigan, and others, but the organizing of forensic medicine in the formal sense is due to the efforts of Charles Norris (Figure 1) and his successor Thomas A. Gonzales (Figure 2).
(10) The indebted, but diligent person, is more valuable to the lending industry.
(11) The four members of Haim – Danielle Haim, Este Haim, Alana Haim , long-haired sisters from Los Angeles who play pointy, 80s-indebted pop-rock with a drummer, Dash Hutton – gathered around a desktop computer, killing time before the final show of their European tour.
(12) Last month the Bank said some households were highly indebted and might struggle as unemployment rose, and separate data showed British households saved the lowest portion of their incomes since 2008 during the three months after the EU referendum.
(13) What many investors fear is that the only way out of this vicious circle is for Greece to walk away from its existing debts and try to go it alone – potentially triggering a wave of similar defaults in other indebted European countries, and jeopardising the euro itself.
(14) Tony Pulis acknowledged that his side were heavily indebted to Foster for the point.
(15) The heavily indebted Russian firm today published its flotation prospectus, revealing that it planned to raise $2.6bn (£1.6bn) in an initial public offering (IPO) of its shares this month in an attempt to cut debt and raise its international profile.
(16) Russian media reported he was in Cambodia and on the verge of selling his heavily indebted business.
(17) Soros proposed that Spain and Italy should be allowed to finance their deficits by issuing treasury bills with a 1% interest rate, and warned that the current policies were leaving the weaker eurozone nations "relegated to the status of third world countries that became highly indebted in a foreign currency.
(18) If power corrupts, powerful inequality indebts and ultimately enslaves.
(19) Previous experience shows how such increases in the levels of borrowing can leave households over-indebted and vulnerable to sudden changes in circumstances and drops in income that can pitch them into hardship.
(20) The World Bank estimates that more than one-third of the countries which have qualified for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief have been targeted by vulture funds.