be beholden

I call myself a liberated documentarian to sort of not be beholden to the old ethical values that sort of didn’t really hone into the local myths and the local truths and kind of taking a scientific approach to photography and art.

Hochman has scoffed at suggestions that he would be beholden to his police backers, often repeating a canned line that “nobody hates a bad cop more than a good cop.”

Bob Woodward reports in his new book that Trump appears to be beholden to Vladimir Putin – and has acted in service to that loyalty in ways that have imperiled the collective safety and well-being of the American people.

And Sir Keir will worry that were he to manage a majority but only a narrow one, he could be beholden to Labour’s left wing.

How much should the meaning evolve, and how much should it be beholden to the past and tradition?