The Breakfast Club Character Test, the Star Trek Captain Test, the Fraggle Test . . . these are all speaking directly to some of our more cherished memories!
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In the " Star Trek " canon, the " Kobayashi Maru " simulation is a no-win scenario designed as a character test for command track cadets at Starfleet Academy.
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After all the presidential character tests imposed these past few scandal-filled years, we have come down to this : Should an explosive temper disqualify a candidate from the White House?
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Circumstances under which a non-citizen will fail the character test include one or more terms of imprisonment, totalling 12 or more months, whether the imprisonment took place in Australia or overseas.
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"It was apparent that all of us in this country would have to stand up and be counted, that this would really be a character test for all of us and that includes me, " he said.
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In the halls of Congress, a series of political battles is shaping up that will outwardly be about power-plant pollution and greenhouse gases but in fact will amount to a kind of character test for the coal industry.
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But his characters test the limits of the permissible, wriggling against the constraints of law and tradition, worrying over going too far or not far enough-- all this while they, their world, and their language, are perched on the brink of extinction.
