Still, he owes an obvious debt to three executives who seem happy not to be bigwigs at major recording companies anymore.

Many of the stars of television cookery who came after him owed an obvious debt to Keith Floyd.

In some of his work Hohlwein owed a fairly obvious debt to the Beggarstaffs.

Mr. Grisham draws heavily on that book and acknowledges an obvious debt.

As might be expected, their look owes an obvious debt to MTV as well.

To the film's credit, it has its own personality in spite of all these obvious debts.

The strategy of reproducing photographs owed an obvious debt to Warhol, but the effect was different.

It owns obvious debts to windsurfing and wakeboarding, from which some of its equipment is derived.

The obvious historical debt is to German Gothic art, with its bone-snapping violence.

The software design owes an obvious debt to the TiVo's famous attention to detail.