formal subject

Beginning at age 11, history is introduced as a formal subject.

In order to learn formal subjects, students need to be relaxed.

The aim is to make music a formal subject and accessible to all.

In the last few minutes he would fumble in a inside pocket, and the Queen in her handbag, and they would quickly run through the formal subjects for discussion.

At this time the Wahhabi movement of Arabia was vigorously attacked by the Egyptian viceroy Muhammad Ali Pasha, a formal subject of the Ottoman sultan.

Galbraith's formal subject may have been economics, but his work can just as well be read as a long meditation on business's genius for self-deception, its consistent preference for flattering theory over troublesome reality.

It was a childhood fit for a boy's adventure magazine, coupled with a pioneer's exigent home-schooling, and among the more formal subjects Murcutt's father taught was architecture, using copies of American design journals that he had shipped in.

Such excursions, executed by formal subjects of the Polish king, were intolerable from the point of view of foreign relations of the Commonwealth, because they violated peace or interfered with the state's current policy toward the Ottoman Empire.

But this hypocrisy reflects once more the radicalism of Moses Mendelssohn's contract of tolerance: If the religion's business has to be reduced to the "inner side" and religion itself cannot be the formal subject of this contract, it simply means that state affairs like executive, legislature and judiciary will be no longer religious affairs.