Mr. Obama's forecast gives more time than that of Mr. Netanyahu, who has signaled that the coming months present apointofnoreturn in dealing with Iran.
Egypt's foreign minister warned that Syria was reaching apointofnoreturn, an opinion echoed by such diverse Egyptian institutions as al-Azhar University and the cineastes union.
With his three new works in the run's rotation of 21 dances, Mr. Taylor warns off anyone from assuming that the sun-filled corner he turned in 1962 was apointofnoreturn.
The Foreign Office in London has sounded a similar note, with minister Lord Malloch Brown saying sanctions would not be lifted until Zimbabwe's transition to democracy has "reached apointofnoreturn".
"He knows there's a place for force in the world and he also knows there's apointofnoreturn in dealing with certain kinds of other governments, " said Leon S. Feurth, the vice president's national security adviser.
There is nopoint in diversifying if the investment does not offer a genuinely different source ofreturn (much of private equity falls into this category) or if the asset is already overvalued.