Sentence examples for creeping expansion from inspiring English sources

For decades, Washington has seen a creeping expansion of protective barriers around government buildings.

Given the creeping expansion of the Union's competence to remove internal barriers, linguistic matters have been considered to be domestic issues that each European State must assess individually.

Santorum is right on social issues, but has never let his love of social issues stand in the way of the creeping expansion of the welfare state.

Over the medium term, however, the creeping expansion of jihadist influence will have a pernicious impact on the health of Pakistan's society, and the militant infrastructure in Pakistan will remain a persistent threat to regional stability.

Yet Stop Norwich UrBanisation, a group that fights "creeping" expansion, has recently redoubled its efforts to halt the construction of 4,000 new homes on prime agricultural land at Rackheath, to the city's north-east.

A smaller, targeted DNA database would not only be a more effective tool in crime-fighting it would act as a sign that the creeping expansion of the surveillance state was being reversed.

Two different creep expansion models are used to explain the pore expansion mechanism during the sintering process, which involves slow and continuous reduction of the argon pressure at high temperatures.

Mr Aquino's robust criticism of creeping Chinese expansion has earned him China's wrath but approval at home.

He was leery of regulation — at his nomination hearing, he warned of the perils of "creeping regulatory expansion" — and seemed skeptical of government interference with markets.

It had bipartisan support, yet the White House, playing to right-wing fears of creeping government expansion, threatened this week to veto the effort.Mr Wyden thinks this is just posturing.

What they called the "creeping legal expansion on to the battlefield" could lead to a "generation of risk-averse military leaders", they warned.