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But soon the secular press began writing about creeping Islamization, and the military started issuing public and private warnings.
But the clock has been creeping forward again.
Putting the ECB in charge should also help to stop the creeping disintegration process, which is not publicly visible, but is very real nonetheless.
At the end of the 1970’s, monetarists bet that only a transitory and modest increase in unemployment could rein in the creeping – and trotting – inflation of the industrial west, and that in retrospect the cost of returning to effective price stability would be judged worthwhile.
All of these factors are certainly related to the "insidious, creeping pandemic of obesity . . .
But while Japan’s banking system helped drive stunning post-war growth, its credit-fueled real-estate boom in the 1980s and subsequent bust led to 25 years of slow growth and creeping deflation.
Soviet bureaucracy is creeping back.
Accompanied by creeping economic controls, the narrative became more nationalistic.
Suppose that as long as a version of this deal is the only game in town, the creeping physical expansion of the Israeli state and the demographic expansion of Israeli Arabs will continue to erode its foundation.
The latter is the most risky, because it supports the creeping authoritarianism that is a sign of our times.
Cautious steps are being taken, like the review of religion-based laws and curricula that have contributed to a creeping talibanization of Pakistani society.
Corporate defaults are already creeping upward in China; and in Brazil, one-quarter of all corporate bonds at a higher risk of default are in the industrial sector.
Privatization has been creeping in at the margin in the form of United Parcel Service, Federal Express, and others.
A tilt toward monetary rigidity and an expansive fiscal policy through a creeping abandonment of the EU Stability Pact.
Policymakers are becoming ensnared in a creeping interventionism that, as British Prime Minister David Cameron has put it, may alter the eurozone “beyond recognition” and violates Europe’s basic economic and political rules.
Moreover, many state employees (around 5.1 million of them eligible to vote) and their families supported Shafiq, owing either to direct instructions from their bosses, or to the perceived threat of creeping MB influence on government bureaucracies.
Instead, we have seen creeping protectionism, and not only on the trade front.
But, with longer-term interest rates now creeping up slightly, the BOJ seems to be pausing.
But this is also Indian territory, wherein lies the rub, for the region is now victim to a creeping China acquisitiveness, with Pakistan acquiescing as a willing accomplice.
If Israel refused to leave the occupied territories in the past, how can it be expected to do so now, when the Islamic State is creeping toward the border?
There was good news, however, in that the Stockholm summit witnessed the first signs that the EU may at last be creeping, crab-wise, toward an idea hitherto taboo: that the European Union may require an immigration policy.
Nonetheless, there is a creeping perception that the OSCE is becoming too deeply engaged in picking winners and losers in Albanian politics - a perception underpinned by wider questions of sovereignty.
The incipient, creeping fascism that results has been groomed by our "democratic" institutions.
Nor is it a sign of creeping authoritarianism.
Despite his self-satisfied declarations that he knows more about ISIS than America’s generals do, he is utterly oblivious to the complex dynamics of today’s institutional fragility, creeping sectarianism, and proxy wars in the Middle East, fueled by the rivalry among regional and global powers.
But perhaps the toughest test facing the ANC’s new leadership will be to reverse the creeping dirigisme that the country has faced in recent years, while steering bold reform.
Indeed, a strange sense of relief is now creeping into Americans’ consciousness as the consumer economy grinds to a halt.
Though such creeping protectionism has not yet had a significant quantitative impact on trade, its emergence has become a major source of concern amid rising anti-globalization sentiment in the advanced economies.
But its solution to the problem of creeping inflation was jury-rigged, and broke down completely in the 1970's.
The eurozone’s creeping fragmentation is primarily the result of the mutual dependence of banks and governments.
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