Edward P.J. Corbett, Robert Connors, Richard P. Hughes, and P. Albert Duhamel define topics as "ways of probing one's subject in order to find the means to develop that subject".

The specification is summarized in the abstract as follows: "This specification provides a model and grammar for representing the structure of information resources used to define topics, and the associations (relationships) between topics.

However, for very narrowly defined topics, like a program discussing moon rocks designed by a Harvard researcher, programs could be designed that discussed their subjects very convincing, he said.

The Constitution defines the areas and topics for which municipal governments are responsible.

But unlike in his first term, when the Governor took on the state's special interests on a number of fronts, he limited his fights in later years to a few well defined topics.

Real-time messaging with GraniteDS is based on a consumer-producer model and lets you define topics and subtopics for partitioning groups of messages.

The students learned to work what were often open invitations rather than clearly defined topics or themes into coherent lesson plans for two or three lessons of which they taught the first.

In developing a curriculum, it is necessary to define topics which can then be put into more general categories.

Louise J. Kaplan, who soberly defined titillating topics.

Dr. Kaplan used a psychological lens, literary allusion and a feminist sensibility to soberly define and explain seemingly titillating topics like sexual perversity and fetishes.