While some board members join because of their personal passions -- a love of opera, for example -- others say the bond has been established by friends on the board, a family tradition or even just geography.
Because of their personal financial problems".
The contributions of two other participants had special poignancy because of their personal stories.
"I'm not so much being mocked because of their personal, intimate reaction to me," he said.
She adds that because of their personal experience with mental illness their giving is in part, a gift to themselves.
Steele wrote a lengthy rebuttal, implying that Chiarelli had long wanted to destroy his career because of their personal and doctrinal differences.
But in the end they couldn't, not because of their personal failings but because too many Americans saw the issue as a question of power.
He was convinced that it was because of their personal liberty that the English, notably Sir Isaac Newton and John Locke, were in the forefront of scientific thought.
Quite properly, there is no exemption for owners of private for-profit businesses who simply don't want to comply with a general law because of their personal views.
The two candidates for the post fell by the wayside not because of their personal qualities but because of their family and social connections.
But just as consumers choose to buy "dolphin-friendly" tuna or kosher meat, they may prefer to avoid genetically modified foods because of their personal views on, say, the environment.
