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MAN. A human being. This definition includes not only the adult male sex of the human species, but women and children; examples: "of offences against man, some are more immediately against the king, other's more immediately against the subject." Hawk. P. C. book 1, c. 2, s. 1. Offences against the life of man come under the general name of homicide, which in our law signifies the killing of a man by a man." Id. book 1, c. 8, s. 2.
     2. In a more confined sense, man means a person of the male sex; and sometimes it signifies a male of the human species above the age of puberty. Vide Rape. It was considered in the civil or Roman law, that although man and person are synonymous in grammar, they had a different acceptation in law; all persons were men, but all men, for example, slaves, were not persons, but things. Vide Barr. on the Stat. 216, note.
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Similarly, he makes straw men of Arthur Waldron (The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth [Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990]) and of Allen Whiting (The Chinese Calculus of Deterrence: India and Indochina [Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1975]), depicting their views of the Chinese as one-dimensionally peace loving and loath to use force.
China's Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great Wall and the Long ... by Jencks, Harlan W. / Pacific Affairs
It helps here that Lamin Sanneh does not set up straw men.
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'AGAINST THE ROPES' NOT EVEN FIT FOR DON KING by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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