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See: character, humanity, mortality 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.
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If he's man enough to claim he can run the schools, he ought to be man enough to put the council in its place when he has the full authority of the new City Charter. In golf, for example, I can't hit the ball as far as I once did, but you've got to be man enough to accept it. The kids must make a hard choice -- they may join the gang and make quick drug money or be man enough to make their own decision, thereby ensuring their success. |
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