Word: beholdenness
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These are very good points, and the babble inside the Beltway delivers no answers. Instead, there is much loose talk about America-as-new-Rome. But Rome never held hearings on the Punic Wars, nor did it slide in and out of indecisive contests. Beholden to 535 Secretaries of State, as Henry Kissinger liked to mock the Congress, the U.S., the oldest democracy in the world, has neither an imperial class nor an imperial ethos. It is Gulliver without the patience to rule...
...Rather than base their new guerrilla campaign on resurrecting their own mediaeval Islamist ideology, the Taliban survivors have attempted to rally new support along ethnic lines. Their propaganda appeals to Pashtun nationalism, accusing Karzai of being beholden to the Americans and the Tajiks of the Northern Alliance. On that basis, they've sought to make common cause with former adversaries such as the notorious Pashtun warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and local commanders once opposed to the Taliban...
...Duterte suffers from none of the charges that dog most Philippine politicians: that he is beholden to vested interests, obsessed with retaining power, or bent on accumulating its spoils. He is accepted and welcomed because he has delivered Davao from the bloody days of the 1970s and 1980s when the city was known as the murder capital of the Philippines. During the 21-year rule of strongman Ferdinand Marcos, the military spared neither the rod nor the gun to battle a spate of insurgencies, including one by the communist New People's Army (NPA). By the end of Marcos' reign...
...addition to the intensification of practice and game schedules, Lewis also says the increasingly professionalized recruiting process often leaves athletes overly beholden to their coaches, who have become more and more active in deciding their fate in the admissions process as the “arms race” has become more competitive...
Steer clear of planners beholden to the products of any one financial institution. Understand that no planner is going to be terrific at everything. Most work with a group of lawyers and accountants. Get their names and check them out along with the planner...