1. Some have suggested that Google could face potentially stiff fines in Russia over the issue.

2. He wrote the company is likely to see stiff competition from established players in new markets.

3. Google Wallet has faced very stiff competition in the three years it has been running.

4. That idea ran into stiff resistance from Democrats in both the House and Senate, however.

5. Apple CEO Tim Cook is under tremendous pressure to boost profits in the face of stiff competition.

6. My first day on the job I was scared stiff, he remembered.

7. The law provides for stiff penalties for failure to comply.

8. Human rights groups have criticized the Public Assembly Act and its stiff penalties.

9. The article was met by swift and stiff resistance from the Trump administration.

10. Any stiff pullback these days is generally met with calls for a topping pattern in the stock market.

11. On July 4, we in the US celebrate our independence from the forces of the stiff upper lip.

12. Forrest went to considerable lengths to explain the reasoning for her stiff sentence.