These institutions are personal institutions.
"The army, the police, the intelligence, these are personal institutions," he said.
If truth be told, though, we each carry our own personal institutions around with us.
Governments are institutions, communities are institutions, colleges are institutions, families are institutions, marriages and partnerships are institutions and our egos are our own personal institutions.
If you are a Canadian student studying in the U.S (or vice versa), show a student visa upon entry into the U.S. Typically depending on the student's status, the visa will outline basic personal and institution information.
Germany has several types of public financial institutions, including credit and personal checking institutions and cooperative banks.
In this view, the quest for social justice can't be separated from the quest for personal conversion, institutions matter as much as good intentions, and no reinvention of Christianity can succeed if it requires completely reinventing Jesus Christ.
Most of the moral injury I am familiar with has to do with betrayal, as the author describes; whether the veteran committed the betrayal to another person, to personal values, to an institution, etc, or was betrayed by another person, by faith, by an institution, etc, seems to not to matter in terms of how damaging and damning the moral injury can be.
For more than two decades, he has held the reins of a bank that is a highly personal, extraordinarily quirky institution.
None of this undermines the sheer force of the chronicle to which we have been exposed, but by making the overall perspectives so personal — and this institution is not alone — the museum may also prevent us from fully understanding other aspects of the history.
