beholden

She’s no longer the woman thrown to the floor and beholden to her abuse, as we see in flashbacks.

Lyle: I think an important question is, how much are you beholden to your family?

They seem not to want to be beholden to any actual constituency and are hoping to raise money from large dollar donors.

Of course, the decks are shuffled much more frequently in the Trump Cabinet, but only because his reality show is not beholden to network episode orders and a litany of contractual agreements to be fulfilled.

Martin, the newly-elected DNC chair, has signaled, if unevenly at times, that he too recognizes the need for a Democratic Party less beholden to its wealthiest donors and the consultants close to them.