Josh Fox

Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent reporting in an in-depth, investigative fashion, and it can do so with a compassionate lens; it allows people to speak in a way that is more human than the mainstream media approach.

American Director

Jon Richardson

When you're single, you're not beholden to anyone, and you can shut down more easily. In the past, I had the idea that I'd live in a caravan with a dog near a pub with no responsibilities. But now, when bad things happen in the world, I feel responsible for them because they're going to impact on my daughter.

English Comedian

Ma Jun

Environmental agencies in China are hamstrung by local officials who put economic growth ahead of environmental protection; even the courts are beholden to local officials, and they are not open to environmental litigation.

Chinese Environmentalist

Leslie Jamison

I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm running up against actuality and beholden to the truth in a different way.

American Novelist

Daniel Woodrell

I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of life. You should be polite as long as possible, and when you can't be polite anymore, don't run.

American Writer

Tammy Duckworth

I feel like moderate Republicans, who would support sensible gun violence legislation, are pushed aside by those folks who are absolutely beholden to the NRA.

Francis Bacon

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

English Philosopher

James May

I'm not beholden to anyone. I'm not waiting for a pension or a carriage clock.

English Journalist

Joe Sestak

I'm not beholden to one party or any special interests.

American Politician

Rob Liefeld

Beholden implies a positive feeling of being obliged, not a legal or negative duty.

Positive Obligation

Using 'beholden' suggests a sense of gratitude towards the person who helped.

Gratitude Implied

'Beholden' is less about financial debt and more about moral or social obligations.

Not Financial Debt

 my big brother, Gerry, and she married my dad, but she kept her maiden name. And then she had my sister Stephanie and I back-to-back, but she continued to work because she refused to be beholden to my dad for money. And I bet my mom was the only woman in our neighborhood who cooked once a week.

How to Discover Your...

 reformist president who is beholden to a sclerotic and obstructionist legislature so the the infighting has already begun and it's actually a little bit ugly but the fighting has not and in a country

Is invisibility the...

 power plant being built there in collaboration with India because we had beholden to India so you know while we we owe a lot to India for our independence the fact that you know we