Voorbeelden van beholden

• 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.

• They have little reason to feel grateful or beholden to their regimes.

• So, is a parameter that captures how beholden the candidates are to their parties.

• Nevertheless, however sympathetic these writers may have been, they remained beholden to a colonial outlook and worldview.

• The elected representative would then not be beholden to any particular interest, but rather, be able to pursue the public interest free from partisan factionalism.

• Indeed, it is difficult to envision how progressive politics will spread far beyond the portion of the intelligentsia not directly beholden to corporate interests.

• If we are to ask why a performance may or may not be boring, however, we are beholden to explore and examine the processes going on within it.

• The respondents wished to avoid 'being beholden to people' and many adopted ways to make some recompense, such as offering petrol money and making gifts to people who provided transport.