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People can be forgiven for writing off the idea that Texas is ever going to be Democratic because they have probably heard that before, but we have seen Texas creep toward better Democratic performance for a long time. And if just that state alone... gets into a place where it is legitimately competitive, it has huge consequences for the electoral map. – Ethan Roeder	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We're seeing a touch of optimism creep in, in terms of voters' opinions about the economy, it's not going to turn around overnight. But at least if the trend line is going in the right way, that's good for Democrats. The more Donald Trump is in the spotlight, that's also good for Democrats. – Amy Walter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When we opened for the first time after the flood, it started just dead. And you start to have that sense of dread creep in. Did I do all this, did I sink all this money in, have I started this business and people can't even get here anymore? – Yokie Johnson	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Even the third period against the Islanders, I could see it start to creep in a little bit, and we knew it was around the corner, i didn’t know if it was going to be tonight, but it was coming, because we were getting away with some things that we weren’t getting away with earlier, but you end up with a win. Now we've just got to reset again and start all over. – Trent Yawney	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don’t know how I can ease the burden of me. Maybe it’d be better if this was just all over. Yes, those thoughts creep in — and they’re real. I can’t ever imagine myself acting on those thoughts, but I definitely have them. – Getty Images	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think we’re all kind of prepared for it to creep in because it’s everywhere. And right now, it’s on all of us to be responsible and try to practice our social distancing, and we’ve got new requirements from the league in order to help with that around our locker rooms and in public. So just trying to try to wear a mask and do our best to not catch it. – Mike Conley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s just about resetting your goals, just trying to keep improving as a player, try to not let complacency creep in at any point, i think at times when you get successful and you maybe enjoy a little bit of that success, that complacency can creep in. – Rory McIlroy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Overall flu activity is still really low. It's starting to creep up just a little bit, that gives us the idea that flu season may be starting. – Lynnette Brammer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I got worried that the kid would think I was a creep or something. – Jason Sudeikis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Those systems are a giant leap towards tracking people’s location, there’s a very real risk of mission creep once there are scanners at doors and people are showing their scannable token to pass through. – Adam Schwartz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Apple is replacing its industry-standard end-to-end encrypted messaging system with an infrastructure for surveillance and censorship, which will be vulnerable to abuse and scope-creep not only in the US, but around the world, apple should abandon these changes and restore its users' faith in the security and integrity of their data on Apple devices and services. – Greg Nojeim	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Bagram grew into such a massive military installation that, as with few other bases in Afghanistan and even Iraq, it came to symbolize and epitomize the phrase ‘mission creep’. – Andrew Watkins	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives. – John Adams	added by Normando 3 years ago
The Fed will be OK with a slow creep higher, particularly with a backdrop of a recovery, but if it moves too much and destabilizes the recovery, there's a reason for concern. – Eric Stein	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
What happened with the War on Terror is that we had mission creep beyond what the initial authorization was, but it does not extend to here. – Abu Bakr al Baghdadi.Karen Greenberg	Found on CNN 4 years ago
That question starts to creep into people's minds in terms of, 'Is this guy going to be around for eight years after the election?'. – Bret Nilles	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Candy corn even making the list may surprise some people, but it is one of the top-selling Halloween candies in the country, we don't know if it's one of the top-eaten candies, but it does have a fan base. And candy corn make great fake teeth to creep out your parents with. – Patrick Murray	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We don't know if it's one of the top-eaten candies, but it does have a fan base. And candy corn make great fake teeth to creep out your parents with. – Patrick Murray	Found on CNN 4 years ago
That was my hesitation: Do I want to trade this lovely, authentic life for that? I didnt want my neighbors looking at me differently. Were neighbors because of who we are, not what we do, and I dont want that to creep into my life again. – Linda Hamilton	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
There's been an awful lot of bad news priced in. So perhaps the absence of new negatives are enough to allow for a small sense of positivity to creep in. – Rob Carnell	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think there's a tendency for markets at times to just want to be positive unless you hit them repeatedly, and not just with bad news, but with new bad news, there's been an awful lot of bad news priced in. So perhaps the absence of new negatives are enough to allow for a small sense of positivity to creep in. – Rob Carnell	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We're starting to creep into 'show me some numbers' territory before we get another leg up. – Darren Gacicia	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It’s fun to watch her live part of life where the disease doesn’t creep in, where she is just excited to be going and doing something that every child and every teenager gets to do, a lot of times there’s a joy filled moment, but yet there’s a little sorrow. – Tony Spader	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Peekawoo doesn't have the kind of vibe that attracts individuals who are looking for a hook-up, interactions have been comfortable so far: no creep encounters! – Catherine Anunciacion	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

People can be forgiven for writing off the idea that Texas is ever going to be Democratic because they have probably heard that before, but we have seen Texas creep toward better Democratic performance for a long time. And if just that state alone... gets into a place where it is legitimately competitive, it has huge consequences for the electoral map.

– Ethan Roeder

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We're seeing a touch of optimism creep in, in terms of voters' opinions about the economy, it's not going to turn around overnight. But at least if the trend line is going in the right way, that's good for Democrats. The more Donald Trump is in the spotlight, that's also good for Democrats.

– Amy Walter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When we opened for the first time after the flood, it started just dead. And you start to have that sense of dread creep in. Did I do all this, did I sink all this money in, have I started this business and people can't even get here anymore?

– Yokie Johnson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Even the third period against the Islanders, I could see it start to creep in a little bit, and we knew it was around the corner, i didn’t know if it was going to be tonight, but it was coming, because we were getting away with some things that we weren’t getting away with earlier, but you end up with a win. Now we've just got to reset again and start all over.

– Trent Yawney

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don’t know how I can ease the burden of me. Maybe it’d be better if this was just all over. Yes, those thoughts creep in — and they’re real. I can’t ever imagine myself acting on those thoughts, but I definitely have them.

– Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think we’re all kind of prepared for it to creep in because it’s everywhere. And right now, it’s on all of us to be responsible and try to practice our social distancing, and we’ve got new requirements from the league in order to help with that around our locker rooms and in public. So just trying to try to wear a mask and do our best to not catch it.

– Mike Conley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s just about resetting your goals, just trying to keep improving as a player, try to not let complacency creep in at any point, i think at times when you get successful and you maybe enjoy a little bit of that success, that complacency can creep in.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Overall flu activity is still really low. It's starting to creep up just a little bit, that gives us the idea that flu season may be starting.

– Lynnette Brammer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I got worried that the kid would think I was a creep or something.

– Jason Sudeikis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Those systems are a giant leap towards tracking people’s location, there’s a very real risk of mission creep once there are scanners at doors and people are showing their scannable token to pass through.

– Adam Schwartz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Apple is replacing its industry-standard end-to-end encrypted messaging system with an infrastructure for surveillance and censorship, which will be vulnerable to abuse and scope-creep not only in the US, but around the world, apple should abandon these changes and restore its users' faith in the security and integrity of their data on Apple devices and services.

– Greg Nojeim

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Bagram grew into such a massive military installation that, as with few other bases in Afghanistan and even Iraq, it came to symbolize and epitomize the phrase ‘mission creep’.

– Andrew Watkins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

– John Adams

added by Normando
3 years ago

The Fed will be OK with a slow creep higher, particularly with a backdrop of a recovery, but if it moves too much and destabilizes the recovery, there's a reason for concern.

– Eric Stein

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

What happened with the War on Terror is that we had mission creep beyond what the initial authorization was, but it does not extend to here.

– Abu Bakr al Baghdadi.Karen Greenberg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

That question starts to creep into people's minds in terms of, 'Is this guy going to be around for eight years after the election?'.

– Bret Nilles

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Candy corn even making the list may surprise some people, but it is one of the top-selling Halloween candies in the country, we don't know if it's one of the top-eaten candies, but it does have a fan base. And candy corn make great fake teeth to creep out your parents with.

– Patrick Murray

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We don't know if it's one of the top-eaten candies, but it does have a fan base. And candy corn make great fake teeth to creep out your parents with.

– Patrick Murray

Found on CNN
4 years ago

That was my hesitation: Do I want to trade this lovely, authentic life for that? I didnt want my neighbors looking at me differently. Were neighbors because of who we are, not what we do, and I dont want that to creep into my life again.

– Linda Hamilton

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There's been an awful lot of bad news priced in. So perhaps the absence of new negatives are enough to allow for a small sense of positivity to creep in.

– Rob Carnell

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I think there's a tendency for markets at times to just want to be positive unless you hit them repeatedly, and not just with bad news, but with new bad news, there's been an awful lot of bad news priced in. So perhaps the absence of new negatives are enough to allow for a small sense of positivity to creep in.

– Rob Carnell

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We're starting to creep into 'show me some numbers' territory before we get another leg up.

– Darren Gacicia

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It’s fun to watch her live part of life where the disease doesn’t creep in, where she is just excited to be going and doing something that every child and every teenager gets to do, a lot of times there’s a joy filled moment, but yet there’s a little sorrow.

– Tony Spader

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Peekawoo doesn't have the kind of vibe that attracts individuals who are looking for a hook-up, interactions have been comfortable so far: no creep encounters!

– Catherine Anunciacion

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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