Tensions appear to have started spilling over, most notably between the Obama White House and Democrats on the Hill.
Fighting between Bashar Assad's regime forces and the Free Syrian Army rebel group has been escalating for over a year and now that conflict has finally started spilling over into Lebanon.
Violence along the Syrian border has started to spill into other countries.
At Northern Boulevard, the shop awnings reflect the burgeoning Asian population that has started to spill out of Flushing into Nassau.
The city, with about 55,000 people, is the hub of Santa Cruz County, a growing community of 250,000 where new development has started to spill over from the Silicon Valley area centered about 30 miles north in San Jose.
And the voters aren't happy either — Poroshenko's approval ratings are in the basement and the growing disquiet about him has started to spill onto the streets.
And in what might be worse news, at least psychologically, oil from the spill has started to creep into Lake Pontchartrain, the sacred seafood pantry of New Orleans.
There are broader political points here, and our commission has started a debate in criminal justice that should spill out into all aspects of social policy.
When the overflow started spilling into the master bedroom, Alecia finally put her foot down and told Chuck he had to find a new place to work.
BP has started to sell assets worth a combined $30 billion as part of a plan to raise cash to pay for the damage from the oil spill.
