The word herbal is derived from the mediaeval Latin liber herbalis ("book of herbs"): it is sometimes used in contrast to the word florilegium, which is a treatise on flowers with emphasis on their beauty and enjoyment rather than the herbal emphasis on their utility.
But it involves furious horse-trading as leaders focus on getting the best deal for their own countries, rather than putting the emphasis on pan-European considerations.
"Part of my work was to give broad publicity to the subject of humanitarianism, to teach that disabled people should be regarded as human beings in the first place, rather than putting the emphasis on their disabilities".
This could, for example, include health programmes that encourage both men and women to bring their children for routine vaccinations and checkups, rather than putting the emphasis on women, and using promotion materials that show pictures of men taking childcare roles.
The Trust is concerned by the government's focus on breeding resistance to the disease rather than laying the emphasis on techniques that could slow the spread.
Scott Hoyt, a senior director with Moody's Analytics, said the government still collects data as if manufacturing were as important as it was 40 years ago, rather than putting the emphasis on services.
Rather than reducing the emphasis on SAT scores, which are a fairly good indicator of freshman success in college, colleges should limit the number of times students can sit for the tests to no more than twice.
On this point, rather than place the emphasis on what another laboratory "got wrong", the authors could seize this opportunity to explain the general problem with redundancy and how this manuscript managed to avoid those pitfalls.
The meeting broke up with most agreeing that this, rather than the current emphasis on the "you're fired" school of sensational entrepreneurialism for the camera and exit points for an overheated investor, was the way forward.
Action research would benefit environmental gerontology with studies that focus on place, rather than the traditional emphasis placed on the individual as the unit of analysis.
