What's the difference between beholden and moral?

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.

Moral


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules.
  • (a.) Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life.
  • (a.) Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty.
  • (a.) Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral pressure or support.
  • (a.) Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; -- opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty.
  • (a.) Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales.
  • (n.) The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; -- usually in the plural.
  • (n.) The inner meaning or significance of a fable, a narrative, an occurrence, an experience, etc.; the practical lesson which anything is designed or fitted to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by a fiction; a maxim.
  • (n.) A morality play. See Morality, 5.
  • (v. i.) To moralize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Along the spectrum of loyalties lie multiple loyalties and ambiguous loyalties, and the latter, if unresolved, create moral ambiguities.
  • (2) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
  • (3) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
  • (4) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
  • (5) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
  • (6) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
  • (7) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (8) This paper discusses the relationship between the psychoanalytic concept of character and the moral considerations of 'character'.
  • (9) "This will obviously be a sensitive topic for the US administration, but partners in the transatlantic alliance must be clear on common rules of engagement in times of conflict if we are to retain any moral standing in the world," Verhofstadt said.
  • (10) This continuing influence of Nazi medicine raises profound questions for the epistemology and morality of medicine.
  • (11) But with the advantages and attractions that Scotland already has, and, more importantly, taking into account the morale boost, the sheer energisation of a whole people that would come about because we would finally have our destiny at least largely back in our own hands again – I think we could do it.
  • (12) But none of those calling on Obama to act carries the moral authority of Gore, who has devoted his post-political career to building a climate movement.
  • (13) Fleeting though it may have been (he jetted off to New York this morning and is due in Toronto on Saturday), there was a poignant reason for his appearance: he was here to play a tribute set to Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of house and one of Morales's closest friends, who died suddenly in March.
  • (14) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
  • (15) Father Vincent Twomey said that given the damage done by Smyth and the repercussions of his actions, "one way or another the cardinal has unfortunately lost his moral credibility".
  • (16) This is a moral swamp, but it's one the Salvation Army claims to be stepping into out of charity .
  • (17) In what appeared to be pointed criticism of increasingly firm rhetoric from Cameron on multinational tax engineering, Carr insisted tax avoidance "cannot be about morality – there are no absolutes".
  • (18) For an industry built on selling ersatz rebellion to teenagers, finding the moral high ground was always going to be tricky.
  • (19) A vigorous progressive physical and occupational therapy program producing tangible results does more for the patient's morale than any verbal encouragement could possibly do.
  • (20) We have a moral duty to conserve them and to educate people about their habitat, health and the threats they face."