'in relation to man' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate a comparison or contrast between man and other things. For example, "The nature of love has been debated in relation to man for centuries."
Not until a more extended visit to Japan in 1949, to research a book on "the meaning of form in relation to man and space," did he actually come to grips with the Zen sensibility.
The draft names only one woman, Mary Wollstonecraft, in a list of liberal thinkers that includes Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who once claimed that "a woman's education must be planned in relation to man".
Ginsburg found the Court's opinion in Roe wanting for a number of reasons; among them was its failure to pay any attention to discrimination against women, or to a woman's "ability to stand in relation to man, society, and the state as an independent, self-sustaining, equal citizen".
"But when you see us in relation to Man City, Man Utd, Tottenham, Liverpool.
In relation to man, this means that, being a biological emergence of the evolution, he is a natural fact but as creator of his own artificial world where he actually leads his life, he is also an artefact.
This theme is carried through in his discussion in Sexual Selection in Relation to Man, in which hunting, defense of self and community, and competition for mates result in the development of men's "observation, reason, invention and imagination".
Almost without fail women were defined in relation to men.
"I don't often hear it in relation to men.
I was brought here to think only of myself in relation to men.
Most of the other books I'd ever read had been by or about men, or about women only in relation to men.
The aims of people whose main concern is to improve wheelchair access will differ widely from those dealing with the discriminatory treatment of women in relation to men.
