Sentence examples for property of man from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, the statement "Man is capable of learning grammar" is true and convertible; but "capable of learning grammar" does not state the essence of man and is therefore a property of man.

"Women are the property of men.

We think of Iranian women as the property of men; chained up in the kitchen.

Married women and children were simply the property of men, and many Africans were considered to be the property of white Europeans.

Women in ancient Greece were generally the property of men and rarely enjoyed the exalted status of the young homosexual partner.

It had been easy to accept my grief over this, but I'd been trained to believe that anger was the property of men and unsexed a woman.

Rape is often explained or excused as a manifestation of racial, ethnic, and class hatred or as stemming from a patriarchal system in which women are viewed as the property of men.

Professor Wise argues that animals are currently treated as "things" not "persons" and have no rights – and points out that at one time, children, women and slaves were not considered persons either, but rather the property of men.

But from henna-stained fingertips to a blood-spotted wedding sheet, the film's images (lovingly captured by Laurent Brunet) remind us that here, female flesh is always the property of men.

As it is, so long as discrimination continues within the Anglican church, its 26 reserved places in the legislature, in which bishops have recently cut such a dash, remain also the exclusive property of men.

How is it that the most breathtaking Winter Games imagery — that first glorious photo of a ski jumper cruising at an altitude that makes most of us want to fasten a seat belt — has been the exclusive quadrennial property of men?