National assertion is a way of combating impersonal forces and remote authorities.

In our globalized age, vast impersonal forces are supposed to determine events.

Justice as retribution often ignores the victim and the system is usually impersonal and cold.

In modern societies, institutional constraints such as constitutions and impersonal legal systems circumscribe such heroic figures.

Scenes like these aim to help readers deeply imagine a crisis that has started to seem impersonal.

Justice as retribution often ignores the victim and the system is usually impersonal and cold. Restorative justice is hopeful.

This was not the case with people asked to make judgments about relatively impersonal violations like throwing a switch.

All in all, tribalism represents a denial of the modern impersonal, egalitarian State and is consequently discriminatory in nature.

It also carries lessons about how the resilient and impersonal forces of history can constrain any leader s drive for change.

Indeed, it may be that the transition from passionate to impersonal politics is one of the most difficult challenges facing democratizers everywhere.

Not so in modern Western democracies, where personal passions are, at least in theory, supposed to be completely separate from the impersonal representation of group interests.

By sheer force of conviction and personality, such figures, many of us believe, can carry the day, bringing a glimmer of hope to an otherwise detached and impersonal universe.

Legal institutions have since evolved to facilitate impersonal trade. Exporters and importers no longer need to know one another, because they can write a contract that a court will enforce.

The predominant image is of a passive, exotic, and veiled victim woman who reacts to events instead of actively participating in them. She is an impersonal object of communal stereotypes that sustain cultural prejudices.

The predominant image is of a passive, exotic, and veiled victim woman who reacts to events instead of actively participating in them. She is an impersonal object of communal stereotypes that sustain cultural prejudices.

Moreover, the long held view that services are non transportable, non tradable, and non scalable no longer holds for a host of modern impersonal services, which can now be produced and exported at low cost.

In the past, Israel s offers were rejected by the Palestinians now it seems that Israel spurned especially flexible Palestinian positions.Personalities are, of course, important in history, but the Israeli Palestinian peace process has for decades been a hostage to the impersonal forces of history.