Not everyone is lucky enough to have good training, a stiff upper lip and strong friendships.
Sarah Nelson, a spokeswoman for the Samaritans, blamed the stiff upper lip culture in the UK for the continuing high rate of suicides.
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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If on the other hand the outgoing government opted for the stiff upper lip approach, we know that we would increase the chance that Schalit will be murdered.
After the initial shock I did not do the stiff upper lip thing at all, I decided that this was war and the battle commenced, so in 2010 I had chemotherapy, then a mastectomy then radiotherapy.
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.
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.
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.
Ms Abbott will argue that today's generation is "caught between the 'stiff-upper lip' approach of previous generations and today's cultural tornado of male cosmetics, white collar industry, and modernised workplaces".
Between Mr. Day's stiff-upper-lip Victor and Mr. Gross's urbanely exasperated Elyot, this "Private Lives" is quite good enough to be worth seeing.
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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.
But even in stiff-upper-lip Britain humanity breaks through.
And yet the sky did not fall in, the pound remained steady and the continental upper lip stayed admirably stiff.
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