In the late 11th century, Roman law was rediscovered and made the subject matter of learned study and teaching by scholars in northern Italy, especially at Bologna.
What purpose, divine or adaptive, this substance might serve was once the subject of a learned debate that engaged scientists, government officials, psychiatrists, intellectuals, and a few gold-plated egomaniacs.
Iran-Contra was the subject of an informal "lessons learned" discussion two years ago among veterans of the scandal.
When Freud embarked on his study the subject of dreams was taboo in learned quarters and a cold silence greeted the first edition.
The belittling, condescending remarks and the physical violence abusers subject their victims to leads to a sense of learned helplessness and self-doubt which make survivors fearful that they really aren't as worthy as they think they are.
The majority of the subjects preferred learned settings (70% of the subjects in the first trial, 80% in the second).
For each trial of the pair recognition task, subjects determined whether a probe pair appeared in a list of learned or novel pairs.
He adds, "The East was a place where the erotic and the poetic mingled, where, stripped of its taint of immorality, it could be the subject of a kind of connoisseurship, a learned cultivation".
Senior CIA officials proposed subjecting Abu Zubaydah to a regimen, based on Mitchell and Jessen's advocacy, of "learned helplessness", which included waterboarding and other torture techniques.
Bruegel spent his adult life in the company of learned humanists, yet he showed no real interest in classical mythological subjects or antiquity.
