be beholden

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?

And you should read them carefully, and you should interpret them on your own, and you shouldn’t be beholden to any special group of priests to tell you what it means.