Word: beholdenness
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History has shown that nearly every attempt by the SEC to change or introduce an important new rule has been politically and emotionally charged thanks to entrenched SEC staff members who have been asleep at the switch for years, or commission members who are beholden to political interests. Sadly, as a result, many a needed reform takes years to move forward and go into effect?...
...Armed with this view, the military seemingly does not regard itself as beholden to the nation's elected leaders. The army has rejected orders from four different Prime Ministers to quash demonstrations against their rule - at the start of the Asian economic crisis in 1997, during street protests against Thaksin in 2006, in 2008 when protesters occupied the Prime Minister's office and, most notoriously, that same year when Bangkok's international airports were shut down by demonstrators in order to force Thaksin-allied Prime Ministers from office. Some believe the army refused to act because it did not want...
...just the size of the debt that causes anxiety; it's whom we owe it to. Foreign governments, to which we are already beholden for the bulk of our energy, own a quarter of our debt. Now the U.S. government can't function without their aid? It's scary. Dave Hulett Malakoff, Texas...
...just the size of the debt that causes anxiety; it's whom we owe it to. Foreign governments, to which we are already beholden for the bulk of our energy, own a quarter of our debt. Now the U.S. government can't function without their aid? It's scary...
With these sentiments in mind, Overbeek said he will bring an unconventional attitude to a dysfunctional political scene. “I think ‘big money’ in politics is counter to good governance, [and] I refuse to be beholden to anyone else but the people,” he said...