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" Work habits began to constrain vacation habits , " he said . "We became more beholden to work and that drove vacation around weekends. "

But the fact remains that Annaly is beholden to the repo market, as well as being heavily exposed to any shift in interest rates.

Its next boss should make clear that the IMF will be more useful to all its members the less beholden it is to any one of them.

Marnie: Well, I believe that we have invested in building a community of participants who are beholden to one another and not to use.

He set up a dual-class voting structure that would make him less beholden to any public shareholders.

Only companies of a certain size are beholden to the FMLA, which offers up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave during a 12-month period.

We were much beholden to him FOR his kindness.

Firefox is open source and its development schedule is managed by a development community not beholden to one commercial entity.

Yet in ways that researchers are just beginning to appreciate, we humans are beholden to our ears.

If you reject the notion that our government is forever beholden to the highest bidder, you need to stand up in this election.

Someone seen as too beholden to a Brics capital will not pass muster, which complicates Chinese or Russian-backed candidates.

So, the ministry depends on local environmental bureaus to enforce legislation and those bureaus are beholden to local governments.

Global dealmakers are also finding themselves beholden to a handful of young technocrats at its anti-monopoly bureau.

That could save you from costly off-road zombie-fleeing mistakes and keep all six of your newly-beholden passengers safe.

But without a raptor's sharply honed sense for the gravity-defying updrafts , humans are beholden to chance. Until now.

Several protesters said they want their effort to avoid being co-opted by or beholden to a particular party or candidate.

'Nor would the EU want one of its members to become beholden to China, ' she says.

If the designer implements his own designs, he is beholden to two different goals: Clean code and great user experience.

Banks are already becoming more beholden to national governments as the latter extend their economic lifelines.

With exports amounting to two-fifths of GDP, it has been beholden to the US as borrower and spender of last resort in the global economy.

The U. S. is not beholden to China, but China is "hostage to the West. "

But however much sympathy the populist Mr Zuma may have for trade unionists, he does not want to be beholden to COSATU.

Conservatives are calling their liberal bishops unfaithful to Christian teaching and beholden to secularism.

And if you do not do this, know that you are beholden to render an account before your Lord God Jesus Christ on the day of Judgment.

But it now finds itself increasingly beholden to the finance ministry, which has tended to oppose a stronger yuan.

PC makers are somewhat beholden to the product cycles of Microsoft and are seen as just that, PC makers -- not consumer device makers.

Our nation will no longer be beholden to the countries that we now rely on for oil imports.

Since Pakistan's leaders are not beholden to the people, their appalling performance during the flood is not surprising.

It evidently pained his vanity to be beholden to the orphan for succor .

Employees felt they were beholden to a person who was beyond outside governance.

Having rejected so many tips, I feel it is beholden on me to explain how I would go about changing the world from 9 to 5.

No family wants to be beholden to the assistance of others.

They also make themselves more beholden to campaign donors, corrupting government.

A man's qualities are those which, like birds' nests, are hid from view in summer, but easily beholden in winter.

Those bosses, with their dual role as party bigwigs and chief executives, are beholden to a higher authority than the stockmarket.

Critics have accused ratings firms of being beholden to the companies that pay their fees to rate their debt.

Some Citigroup workers have already left for small, boutique investment banks or large rivals that are not so beholden to the government.

That is the view of the army, and a sign that Mr. Zardari feels increasingly beholden to it.

Now Magna will be heavily beholden to Germany and other European governments that will provide billions in loan guarantees.

A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse.

These investors were, directly or indirectly, beholden to the banks.

These are laudable goals, and suggest that China's leadership is not beholden to a single-minded pursuit of quantitative growth targets.

He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them.

Garrosh Hellscream yells: united in our conviction, unrivaled in strength, beholden to no one.

He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them.

That's a model I don't subscribe to and one I don't want to be beholden to.

In exchange for the beer. I don't like bein' beholden to nobody.

A lion may come to be beholden to mouse.

But with an estimated two-thirds of reserves in U. S. assets, still very much beholden to Washington.

They want to work with the west and China, while being beholden to neither.

All mankind are beholden to him that is kind to the good. 2. It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

The tenant manager is beholden to the landlord.

It shows that the young in our country are beginning to think of the rulers as enemies instead of those we should be beholden to.

He answered right away that the Church was not beholden to the Government.

Ergo, a politician who flaunts the Constitution is effectively saying 'I am beholden to no law'.

The importance of this is that your trips and tribulations are gifts to be beholden; for that is how you will learn who you truly are.

And it's really beloved and beholden by cult film makers, because it's difficult to find anything that is comparable to it.

In recent years, Hong Kong's stock market has found itself beholden to shifts in mainland Chinese policy.

The importance of this is that your trials and tribulations are gifts to be beholden;

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