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When athletes test positive for a banned substance, they must persuasively explain how it entered their system or face a stiff penalty.

In the current, so-called third design generation, the hood slopes down to form the stiff upper lip of a mouth pursed with purpose.

It is making the leadership change as it faces stiff competition from rivals for home internet as well as wireless customers.

Ivan Cartwright, area coroner for Leicester City and South Leicestershire, was told the door to the attic conversion was "unusually" stiff and had to be broken down.

It’s stiff karaoke that earns a confounded polite clap.