Cleland called the campaign by the veterans' group "a campaign of character assassination" and accused the Bush campaign of being involved in it.

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However, Julian Knowles QC, defending, accused the prosecution of stereotyping Ms Pryce's character, arguing that a person's success and intelligence did not make them immune to pressure.

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Aberdeen were facing a test of character in the last 45 minutes after Skovdahl accused them of under-achieving against Rangers.

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Instead of evaluating the meritorious careers of the candidates on the ballot by thoroughly studying their statistical achievements and contributions, the Baseball Writers Association of America is now wrestling with the moral conundrum of sifting through a laundry list of confirmed, accused or rumored cheaters by using the subjective criteria of sportsmanship, integrity and character.

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Navigating between the Scylla of Sony and the Charybdis of Microsoft and accused of relying too heavily on its stable of retro-friendly character franchises, Nintendo built upon its maverick strategy success with the Nintendo DS to buck the trend of the graphics wars.

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The lunacy of treating this story as a deep exploration of character is that the only thing we really want to know about the character in question Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford), a Midwestern prosecutor accused of murdering one of his colleagues (Greta Scacchi) is: Did he do it or not?

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