Significados de more beholden en inglés

We are as much, if not more beholden to luck than skill.

If this were so, we must say that England is much more beholden to him than Christianity.

Even local appointments were more beholden to weather and the temperament of one's horse than the accuracy of one's clock.

The captain owed nothing to any of these fop-makers in his dress, nor was his person much more beholden to nature.

The move meant the banks would be far more beholden to bank regulators and would be subject to more restrictive capital requirements.

This rhetoric of women "enslaving themselves", becoming ever more beholden to the patriarchy when they present themselves sexually, is common.

I have heard that he loves one in secret, and I am therefore the more beholden to him for discovering Mabel to me.

Do you really fancy you should be more beholden to your correspondent, if he had been damning you all the while for your importunity?

There's another that you're more beholden to than you are to me and my boys, maybe, but he don't allow me to tell his name.

"For that," answered I, "I am the more beholden to God and your amiable disposition.