Ms. Karten said: "People are more inclined to punish a hospital, which they see as a big, rich, impersonal institution without a face.

Suspicious of impersonal institutions, Filipinos function through a web of personal ties based on mutual obligations.

All were associated with Harrison, and all shared his interest in the importance of the personal in history, as opposed to the history of impersonal institutions.

Their flesh and blood was no match for the impersonal institution of the papacy.

Quite a small community too, not one of those huge impersonal institutions.

At the same time, many innocent babies were forced to grow up in impersonal institutions where they soon became so backward as to be unadoptable.

There is the Getty Museum of course, but I never like to work with a big impersonal institution.

For many, it means that illnesses can be treated in familiar settings rather than in impersonal medical institutions.

As longevity was increasing, the notion of placing severely disabled people in large, impersonal institutions was being discredited.

But we did, I think, give an often cold and impersonal institution a soul, a grounded identity.