beholden

In recent months, direct-to-consumer brands that have been heavily invested in Facebook have been looking to diversify, according to Chris Toy, CEO of MarketerHire, as founders fear being “too beholden” to one channel.

Four years later, Gow feels let down and is convinced that both political parties are beholden to corporations — even foreign corporations that aim to take American land.

Basically, the post office had to function less like a public service and more like a private business, but still uphold its public service obligations — like being beholden to requirements set by Congress and having to serve every American.

Our unusual energy surplus has made it possible to reinvent the wheel of solar capture and drive past the limitations previously imposed on life, which had been almost exclusively beholden to photosynthetic energy capture.

How shall it be told that Emma of Normandy was beholden to a nunnery for her handmaidens?

There my letter reached her, and rather than be beholden to strangers or accept my money there, she came to us.

I have been beholden to you for advice in the hours of the most frightful danger.

And though the thing roared to him to stop, yet the sprightly tailor was not the man to be beholden to a monster.

So when Sir Tristram had beholden them long he thought shame to see two hundred knights battering upon twenty knights.

For the last year at least I had not been beholden to my mother for food.