0 feeling you have a duty to someone because they have done something for you:
She wanted to be independent and beholden to no one.
1 feeling you have a duty to someone who has done something for you:
They do not benefit from state subsidies and therefore are not beholden to the government.
Once we behold and are beholden to the painting, we cannot escape its call, a call that is as profoundly moral as it is aesthetic.
Another politician more beholden to abstract principles might have attempted to move public opinion in the direction of a more migrant-friendly stance.
The correct balance between being beholden to local interests and having local knowledge provides an important practical justification for territorial constituencies. 116.
In his view, nationality was not pre-determined, and states, correlatively, were not beholden to singularized, essentialized notions of nation.
This view sees popular culture as semiautonomous: dependent on a prior structure, but not absolutely beholden to it.
But we need not be beholden to such a dark colonial legacy today.
Their electoral success meant that they were not beholden to the party for their seats.
It's hard to teach subversive farming in regular academic curricula, which is mostly beholden to big industrial agribusiness interests anyway.
