Beholden in a sentence as an adjective

You are a fool if you think Mozilla is beholden to Google.

He does not need to be beholden to charity handouts.

Otherwise, we'll likely continue to be beholden to the ToS that we all just click "accept" on.

No, if you have purchases on your agreement prior to cancellation, it's obvious that you are beholden to these purchases.

Even if a provider did happen to let you do this you're beholden to them at that point and they, bluntly, have you by the nuts if you start to threaten them.

That's where A123 had a different path from ARM and why I think a lot of companies wouldn't commit to using A123's technology - they'd be beholden to one company.

This is really unfortunate and I'm sure nobody at Google really meant to do this, but...."This is the same way you'd criticize a king, somebody you are beholden to.

A123's technology was cool, but ultimately no auto maker would allow itself to be beholden to a proprietary battery technology ahead of its time.

Because I'm not beholden to butt-in-the-chair syndrome, I am free to spend an hour or more going for a walk, visiting a local coffee shop, or taking a bath so I can think and problem solve before typing into a console.

Specialist courts with exclusive subject matter jurisdiction get judges beholden to special interests that promote abuse and parasitism for their own benefit.

And it is certainly news to me that anyone here on HN is critical of WikiLeaks as they have done what any journalists do: by shining a light on the worlds most powerful for the benefit of all of us. There is no real difference between how WikiLeaks or The NY Times achieve their goals, except WikiLeaks is not beholden to anyone, so the have more credibility.

The landscape for x-platform software is pretty limited, and having to use a framework like phonegap is far from ideal and leaves you beholden to that framework author for updates, performance, updating for new UIs like iOS 7, fixing bugs etc.

It was the perfect opportunity to leapfrog Google and help the open source community at the same time, and they would have had more control over the data - as it is they are beholden to TomTom and other providers to try to get things fixed, or will have to try to merge future map updates with their own patches.

Beholden definitions

adjective

under a moral obligation to someone