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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: Obama's Impact on the Middle East Peace Process 2010

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: Obama's Impact on the Middle East Peace Process Peter A. Joseph 2010

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.

Obama's Impact on the Middle East Peace Process Peter A. Joseph 2010

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: Obama's Impact on the Middle East Peace Process 2009

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

Les Miserables 2008

I then changed my course to get out of it, and struck the small water-shed running to the east of south.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

At five miles the ground became firmer; at seven miles met with what seemed to be a water-shed.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 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.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

At half a mile struck a water-shed, and followed it north for two miles.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 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.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004