But over the years, occasional and fitful progress was halted by bouts of bloodletting that reached a brutal apogee a generation later, when Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis on Oct.

The Moon's furthest point from the Earth is known as apogee.

“Soon the replacement of the whites within Texas will hit its apogee.”

Wade may have been the culmination of the anti-abortion movement, but may also mark its apogee.

The Moon's orbit around Earth is elliptical which means there are times when it is further away - apogee - and times when it is closer - perigee.