Hashtags have also undergone mission creep, and now do all sorts of interesting things.

Ham said he was not worried about mission creep.

One danger of a never-ending government investigation into people's financial transactions is mission creep.

And obviously we have issues with mission creep, or function creep, as well.

Another early example of mission creep is the Korean War.

Our mission ended with 19 American soldiers dead, victims of "mission creep."

One of the key roles of a staff is avoiding mission creep.

He questions the expansive rhetoric, if not the ideal, of universal human rights - its "mission creep."

"Fighting corruption is the very definition of mission creep," one Obama administration official said.

The operation has been criticized for expanding beyond its original boundaries ("mission creep").