President Obama's speech in Cairo was widely lauded as a water-shed event in Arab-US relations for the tone he adopted in reaching out to the Arab world. ❋ Peter A. Joseph (2010)
The point of support, thus encountered in the mire at the supreme moment, was the beginning of the other water-shed of the pavement, which had bent but had not given way, and which had curved under the water like ❋ Unknown (2008)
At five miles the ground became firmer; at seven miles met with what seemed to be a water-shed. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I then changed my course to get out of it, and struck the small water-shed running to the east of south. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Proceeded on a north course, and at seven miles crossed what seemed to be a water-shed, seemingly running to the west of north. ❋ Unknown (2007)
At half a mile struck a water-shed, and followed it north for two miles. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The map is blank in this region, but I judged, as I afterwards found rightly, that at that pass we had crossed the water-shed, and that the streams thenceforward no longer fall into the Pacific, but into the Sea of Japan. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
The award of this prize is a water-shed in my life, forcing me to look back over my past and to consider what I should do for the next 15-20 years. ❋ Unknown (2002)
What then could be supposed, but that the water-shed on that side was not far distant? ❋ Unknown (2003)
Continuing along the old track, we this day quitted the basin of the Belyando, and ascended those grassy slopes, and that range, which I had formerly taken to be the water-shed of the coast rivers. ❋ Unknown (2003)
When the show began in 1975, Starsky and Hutch was a “water-shed” series. ❋ Unknown (2001)
They would have to cross the chain which separates the basin of the Niger from the basin of the Senegal, and determines the course of the water-shed, whether to the Gulf of ❋ Unknown (2003)
Although we were now some hundred feet, to judge by the water-shed, above the level of the sea, the mid-day sun scorched even through the tent; our frail tenement was more than once blown down, and the heat of the sand made the work of repitching it painful. ❋ Unknown (2003)
All but the Nzadi, and perhaps even this, have deltas, where the divided stream, deficient in water-shed, finds its sluggish way to the sea. ❋ Unknown (2003)
We marched at dawn, and in an hour topped the Wagf, the water-shed, and rode down its far side. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)
The congress, exactly four years after Mr de Klerk's water-shed speech in Parliament, is expected to be attended by about 2000 NP representatives from all regions. ❋ Unknown (1994)
Starting at 5.30 we tacked on the tide over the "water-shed" behind Spiekeroog. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)
