"We haven't a huge budget, but I think it's
beholden to us to give money back where we can.
"Because it is
beholden to US policy, Egypt's hands are tied diplomatically - both in Lebanon and elsewhere," Husseini told IPS.
Through a gendered line of inquiry, she demonstrates that it is not only the imperial instruments of power that keep the workers of Asian "tiger" economies
beholden to US corporations: the role of the dutiful daughter is highly complicit in these economic arrangements.
He cautioned, however, "that doesn't mean to say that they're
beholden to us or things will get better quickly."
As it stands today, our goal in the next election has to be to keep the Liberals a minority, because if they get a majority situation, they are not
beholden to us or the NDP.
The dismay reflects the misgivings of many Egyptians about the prospects for reform under Cairo's caretaker military rulers, who appear
beholden to US largesse and in no rush to reverse Mubarak's unpopular Palestinian policies.
But we vote for our MPs, and pay their wages, which makes them
beholden to us. It's our business to know, and their duty to tell us.
Independent thinking is required so that the President can speak truth to power always mindful that he is
beholden to us, the bosses, not to a few elite blocs that propagate patronage politics.
Qatar was
beholden to US military protection, as it developed what Mehran Kamrava, the Director of the Centre for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar, coined as the "subtle" power of a small state.
And much though we all yearn for thoroughbreds to fly, like Zeus's nephew Pegasus, it is
beholden to us to keep our feet on the ground.
