beholden

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However, water data is not beholden to the same regional transmission organizations, leading her to send Freedom of Act Information requests to utility companies; just over half replied.

From Science Daily

“You made it sound like we were beholden to them,” she said she told him.

From New York Times

The performers, once beholden to the stage, will be faced with the strange, disorienting option to be replaced by their likenesses while they abscond to a private island or bunker and ride out the apocalypse.

From Los Angeles Times

It was set up as a nonprofit by founders who hoped that it wouldn’t be beholden to commercial interests.

From Seattle Times

Francis in September insisted that the Vatican’s relations with China were going well but said work must still be done to show Beijing that the Catholic church isn’t beholden to a foreign power.

From Seattle Times