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.
According to this narrative, the perpetrators are un-educated, unenculturated immigrant heathens unschooled in English protesting etiquette, let alone its signature stiff upper lip.
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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.
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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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.
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.
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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