Rather it's a case of a little here and a little there, "a creep of lots of things," as Graeme Huston, editor of the Doncaster Free Press, puts it.
So far, they have suggested a creep of 2° of latitude north and south, but only over the next century.
Some see such philanthropists as planetary saviors; others as agents of a creeping privatization of one of the last great global commons.
To some, that word, "reduce," is a sign of a creeping acceptance of reality.
We're in the middle of a creeping privatisation of public space.
The case is seen by women's rights activists as part of a creeping criminalisation of pregnant women.
"We're in the middle of a creeping privatization of public space," The Guardian wrote a year ago in an appeal to readers to track the changes in their neighborhoods.
The Taliban are mostly Pashtun, and the influx to Karachi has led to charges by the M.Q.M. and its supporters of a creeping "Talibanization" of the city.
This innocuous-sounding event was actually part of a creeping takeover of the sort that businesses in Russia always fear and often face.
Non-Islamists accuse the Brothers of attempting a creeping takeover of state institutions, as well as of rank incompetence.
