His son wrote an anguished reply to the column in the Daily Mail on Tuesday, defending his father and saying, "Fierce debate about politics does not justify character assassination of my father".
Ed Miliband accused the Mail of a smear against his father: "Fierce debate about politics does not justify character assassination of my father, questioning the patriotism of a man who risked his life for our country in World War II, or publishing a picture of his gravestone with a tasteless pun about him being a 'grave socialist'.
In character-based tests, used to justify a character congruence approach, the phylogenetic inference method (e.g., parsimony [ Farris et al. 1994] vs. distances [ Zelwer and Daubin 2004]) and randomization method (e.g., nonparametric bootstrapping [ Leigh et al. 2008] vs. parametric bootstrapping [ Huelsenbeck and Bull 1996]) also influences the statistical outcome of the test (see Planet 2006).
To immediately justify a character's psychology, Roberts may supply him or her with a flimsy backstory.
Mamoud, for example, discloses that his mother and brother were killed in Palestinian refugee camps — a back story that might seem designed to justify the character's own violence.
And while Mr. Lang offers a shrewd, enjoyable take on your standard-issue criminal galoot, he quite understandably despairs of trying to justify his character's last-minute conversion to goodness.
Mamoud, for example, discloses that his mother and brother were killed in Palestinian refugee camps a back story that might seem designed to justify the character's own violence.
He claims that: "The experts agree there is no real evidence to justify this character assassination of someone who has contributed so much to Liverpool's great history". In the film, written by Robert Rodat and directed by Roland Emmerich, Gibson plays the part of Benjamin Martin, who takes up arms against the British after Redcoats burn down his home.
To justify the character in a regular capacity, the producers toned her down and tried to find a suitable balance of sexual tension, fun and friendship.
It was only after making these changes to Spidy that the developers decided to make Spidy an extraterrestrial, as that would justify the character design's deviations from regular spiders.
Yoo invokes Jimmy Carter, who he describes as "a young fresh face" campaigning for the presidency by attacking the CIA: "Our government should justify the character and moral principles of the American people, and our foreign policy should not short-circuit that for temporary advantage," Carter says.
