Not everyone is lucky enough to have good training, a stiff upper lip and strong friendships.
Keeping a stiff upper lip, Toyota management have justified the settlement as necessary to putting the 2009-2010 debacle behind it, so that they can focus on the future.
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Military families, Christians, Jews, tea party activists, and various other groups must suffer insult with a stiff upper lip so that discourse can run the full range of parody and ridicule.
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We can surrender to all of Hamas's demands and reunite Schalit with his suffering family, or we can keep a stiff upper lip, refuse to negotiate with terrorists and wait until we receive actionable intelligence on his whereabouts and attempt to rescue him.
They could remain ideologically pure by bringing down their own government and so risk empowering the Left, or they could recognize that governance is the art of compromise, keep a stiff upper lip and work from within the government to mitigate the strategic damage that in their view Shamir and Netanyahu caused by bowing to American pressure.
Sarah Nelson, a spokeswoman for the Samaritans, blamed the stiff upper lip culture in the UK for the continuing high rate of suicides.
Sport is an example: professional football was called off on the day of her death but stiff-upper-lip cricket went ahead after a minute's silence.
The stiff upper lip days are long gone, and while Britain still supplies valuable intelligence and a relatively reliable vote in international organizations, it is increasingly unwilling or unable to supply what has become rare from our allies: hard military power.
The evolution of the stiff upper lip is unexpectedly complex - emerging out of the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars as a reaction to what Britain's rulers felt was a dangerous unleashing of unrestrained passion on the continent.
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