Others who have investigated the bombings (such as Mr Shchekochikhin) have come to a sticky end.

ECONOMIST: Russian poisonings

To them, Mr Shigeta will always be a spiv with a flaky past a high-school drop-out who was bound to come to a sticky end.

ECONOMIST: Japanese high-tech

But there's a special place there for the one man who was chairman of HBOS, from wildly ambitious beginning to sticky end: "Lord Stevenson has shown himself incapable of facing the realities of what placed the bank in jeopardy from that time until now".

BBC: Carrying on banking

They point out that one cause of the new competition is that bookmakers were allowed to set up in Tattersalls, the big-money ring on courses, without serving an apprenticeship in the quids-and-dollars Silver Ring: when these neophytes come to a sticky end, competition will simmer down.

ECONOMIST: Racecourse betting

This can be super tricky to keep neat and orderly you need baking precision and consistency to manage that and not end up with a sticky lopsided (yet delicious) mess.

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Their best efforts in the first half-hour were timid shots from Dirk Kuyt and Torres, while at the other end of a very sticky pitch, the skill of McFadden, making his 200th club career start, proved a regular nuisance for the visitors' defence.

BBC: Birmingham 1-1 Liverpool