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.
‘See the brand in a different way’: Why Shapermint is planning to scale television advertising in November|Kristina Monllos|October 7, 2020|Digiday
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.
It’s His Land. Now a Canadian Company Gets to Take It.|by Lee van der Voo for ProPublica|October 1, 2020|ProPublica
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.
How The Post Office Became A Political Football|Kaleigh Rogers (kaleigh.rogers@fivethirtyeight.com)|September 21, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
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.
Dawn of the Heliocene - Issue 90: Something Green|Summer Praetorius|September 16, 2020|Nautilus
Accusing his opponents of being locked in a Cold War mind-set, it is Stone who is beholden to old orthodoxies.
Oliver Stone’s Latest Dictator Suckup|James Kirchick|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Huckabee is also not burdened by, or beholden to, foreign investors.
Can Huckabee Convert the GOP’s Moneymen?|Lloyd Green|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Its members would not be beholden to any special interest groups, at all, for their selection.
Is It Time to Take a Chance on Random Representatives?|Michael Schulson|November 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Beholden to a base that, like a capricious autocrat, will turn against them at the slightest provocation.
Ted Cruz is Still Not Here to Make Friends|Jamelle Bouie|February 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The auteurs of the world are no longer given free rein and are now beholden to certain financial imperatives.
Alec Baldwin Uncensored: On His HBO Doc, Bloomberg, Polanski, and The New York Times|Marlow Stern|October 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
How shall it be told that Emma of Normandy was beholden to a nunnery for her handmaidens?
King Olaf's Kinsman|Charles Whistler
There my letter reached her, and rather than be beholden to strangers or accept my money there, she came to us.
The Crossing|Winston Churchill
I have been beholden to you for advice in the hours of the most frightful danger.
Such is Life|Frank Wedekind
And though the thing roared to him to stop, yet the sprightly tailor was not the man to be beholden to a monster.
Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales|Various
So when Sir Tristram had beholden them long he thought shame to see two hundred knights battering upon twenty knights.
Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I (of II)|Thomas Malory
British Dictionary definitions for beholden
beholden
/ (bɪˈhəʊldən) /
adjective
indebted; obliged; under a moral obligation
Word Origin for beholden
Old English behealden, past participle of behealdan to behold