( The Press and Journal)Ī controversy around wrongly interpreted cervical smear tests marks a watershed moment for the management of Ireland’s health service, a government minister has said. ( The Regina Leader-Post)Īberdeenshire East SNP MSP Gillian Martin said: “This is a watershed moment in the fight against period poverty. Mr Sanchez acknowledged the political influence of an unprecedented strike on International Women’s Day on March 8, when millions of Spanish women abandoned their workplaces and homes and took to the streets, describing it as a watershed moment for social progress. The plural form of watershed moment is watershed moments. The figurative sense of watershed came into use in the mid-1800s, and watershed moment came into use around the turn of the twentieth century. The word watershed is used literally to mean an area of land that divides the flow of separate rivers, or the high ridge from which water flows into a body of water. It is considered momentous, though a watershed moment is often recognized in hindsight. Far-right AfD wins local election in ‘watershed moment’ for German politics - Kate Connolly in Berlin The far-right Alternative fr Deutschland has won a district council election in Germany for the first time, in what is being referred to as a watershed moment in the country’s politics. A watershed moment is a dividing point, from which things will never be the same. A watershed moment is a turning point, the exact moment that changes the direction of an activity or situation.
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