Even for someone like me, who often finds privacy fears overblown, the creep factor here is hard to ignore.
But the creep of foreign policy into market regulation should go no further.
This is the creep of the culture war into all areas of American life: science, media, charity, even the Girl Scouts.
Some retailers say they're monitoring the creep of pleats back on the runways, but not jumping to make room for them just yet.
Let us hope, then, that 2013 will unveil a new book about the young, but one that halts the creep of adolescence into adulthood.
Finally, the creep of trade protectionism is anathema to pro-growth policies.
For years Federer and Nadal have stood together as a kind of classy firewall against the creep of corruption and boorishness that oozes into nearly every crevice of professional sports.
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As the years creep by, the resolve of some council members has weakened.
Advocates of the former argue that a continental presence will drag US troops into African conflicts via the mission creep possibilities birthed by the convenience of proximity.
But here it was, the early creep of 2013, and the planet now discussing an old tattoo of a football coach whose team wasn't in the playoffs.
Better graphics matter to gamers, but it better be downright holographic for the unit to creep into the high hundreds.
Do not believe that E-Verify will not succumb to the same mission creep as the Social Security card, which left its original purpose in the dust long ago.
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"When you start to see the age creep up on a show like that, you wonder whether the show is sustainable, " says Laura Caraccioli-Davis, head of entertainment at Starcom, a media planning agency.
"That was the balance, the more you creep in, the more you risk tipping him off, " a U.S. official said.
The program involved must know what constitutes a biologically meaningful resemblance, and it must also be able to deal with the errors that inevitably creep into the sequencing process.
Coke, in particular, made the most of Newcastle lack of midfield bite and was close to getting his name on the scoresheet, but saw his shot from outside the box creep narrowly wide of Shay Given's post.
Though you leave the theatre in a properly chastened frame of mind, the sheer vitality and wit of the first half creep back, especially of the two women, Imoinda, played by Nadine Marshall and Lady Onola, one of the old king's former mistresses, played by Jo Martin.
Squeezing past the stiff bulk of Eric, the stuffed bison, in the hall, she would creep down the bullet-pocked stairs and step out into Albert Street.
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Tammy, who had handled the household finances since the day they were married, let the balances on the credit cards creep up, always intending to pay everything off with the coming bonus.
He would watch the daylight wax and wane on the ceiling, or roaches creep slowly up the wall.
The greatest example of off-season creep is the NFL, a near-religion which has successfully repositioned itself from a fall-to-winter pastime to a daily relationship, to be attended to constantly.
As the match wore on, mistakes began to creep into the Pirates' play, the ball often going astray in the offload.
Coming through the lobby again, I looked out through the doors and saw a pair of minks creep over the harbor wall.
The practice gives the Bermuda turf a year to recover from its annual battle with the rye, and creates a window for groundskeepers to eradicate the unwanted poa annua grass that threatens to creep onto the greens.
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But now, he is racing against the clock to salvage what he can before the floodwaters start to swell and creep out of the tree lines.
Forrester Research estimates that this year the figure may creep up to about 1.5%.
The more information that is collected by machines, the more errors creep in that need human intervention.
The day's declines snapped a string of modest gains that had seen the Nasdaq Composite creep higher for six consecutive days.
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