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How to use the word beholden in a Sentence?

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I’m not beholden to anybody.

Paul Vallas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Maybe Jim Jordan is the right person for Speaker of the House because he is not beholden to the lobbyists and special interests who have corrupted this place and corrupted this nation under the leadership of both Republicans and Democrats.

Matt Gaetz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We need strong oversight over woke corporations that have shed their American identities and become beholden to China, these companies are still demanding handouts from American taxpayers and preferential tax treatment.

Jason Smith

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The answer is we have never shared information with the Chinese government, nor would we, are TikTok's engineers, the people that are developing this tool, creating this tool, are they beholden to China, and is that a threat to the US ?

Michael Beckerman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm not in bed with any big corporate things. At the end of the day, there's nobody I'm beholden to. No record companies, no corporate interests, no nothing. And you can't cancel me. I love it when they try.

Kid Rock

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

President Biden is beholden to a cabal of radical environmental groups who are preventing his administration from unleashing America’s full energy potential, we must investigate whether these groups are undermining our national security because they are funded or supported by the Russian government or Russian controlled entities.

Lance Gooden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I stand before you today beholden to no human c -- sucker and working a paying f -- king union job and no limber d -- k of an administrator is going to tell me how to teach my classes because I'm a f -- king tenured professor.

Barry Mehler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you look at Justice Stephen Breyer, Justice Stephen Breyer's been clear that Justice Stephen Breyer is very much averse to any public perception or beholden to either political party.

Elie Honig

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our government can't be responsive to all Americans if our elected officials are beholden to the elite donor class.

Tom Steyer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We know we have to earn our credibility and trust through results. In Washington, D.C., where results are few and credibility is thin, that may seem like scaling an impossible summit, but that’s also our advantage: like the Trump Presidency that brought us together, we were never of Washington, D.C. We are merelyinit —and in multiple state capitals, as I write — and so we aren’t beholden to its ways.

Brooke Rollins

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We're still a highly independent company who's not beholden to public markets in which we have to show ever-increasing profits, and anything like a fight like this [ with Apple Inc. and Google ], which loses us money for a year or more, would never be tolerated. So we have the financial independence to do that.

Tim Sweeney

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We should not be beholden to oil and gas for our education.

Ruby Lopez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The founders spoke about things like promising pardons to your friends to protect your own criminality, they spoke about things like people being beholden to foreign governments. They spoke about profiting from the presidency.

Paul Rosenzweig

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The administration will see this as part of a broader concern about China investing in countries as a threat to make potentially those countries beholden to China or indebted to China and to diminish the United Statess influence in the Western Hemisphere, and I would say that the concern is particularly acute where the investment is going to be in information technology. And in light of the catastrophic damage of the Bahamas, I think that is going to be an issue.

John Dermody

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

They would no longer be beholden by Article 5 and the Joint Declaration.

Simon Young

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Of course, it's vague but it is clear that after 50 years mainland policy can change. They don't have to change but they can change, they would no longer be beholden by Article 5 and the Joint Declaration.

Simon Young

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The fact of the matter is, I'm not beholden to banks. I supported the bankruptcy bill because I believe taking a very bad bill that was going to pass overwhelmingly and making it better made sense.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Melania Trump is never beholden to the Washington ways of broadcasting everything you're thinking and doing.

Kellyanne Conway

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The problem for North Asia is that they are so beholden to global conditions. That's less of an issue for India or Indonesia because they are less demand-driven.

Dwyfor Evans

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think by taking the meeting, and I don't think you need a lot of training for this, by taking the meeting, you've made yourself beholden to Putin in terms of however Donald Trump wants to characterize it down the road, so that even if nothing inappropriate happens at the meeting, you have that vulnerability as well.

Andrew McCarthy

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The two big picture questions have been -- was there any person who was acting as a link between the campaign and Russia or Wikileaks, and what incentive did Donald Trump have to cooperate with the Russians and why is Donald Trump so beholden to the Russians ? i think we now have potential answers to both those questions.

Jens David Ohlin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Industry will continue to challenge the rule in court, but we will work as long as it takes to defeat those corporate interests and an administration beholden to them.

Julie Murray

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Today's decision is a huge win for defrauded borrowers around the country, industry will continue to challenge the rule in court, but we will work as long as it takes to defeat those corporate interests and an administration beholden to them.

Julie Murray

Found on CNN
5 years ago

First of all, it's a phony attack, and secondly, it's extremely sexist to say that a woman is beholden to her father's former employer ... 84% of the record-breaking money that we raised in this campaign is from Michigan. Eighty-two percent of it is $100 or less.

Richard Whitmer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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