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that's pathetic that's pathetic it's | That's stupid | neutral |
Of course it is true that for a given level of spending, lowering one tax will require raising another. | We could probably lower all taxes and nothing would change. | contradiction |
However, participation in a taxpayer clinic is not solely limited to tax experts since these programs provide extensive training and mentoring. | Any educated person may participate in a taxpayer clinic. | neutral |
A statement that successfully picks its way across this dangerous terrain is said to exhibit an economy of truth , and a person who has uttered such a statement is said to have been economical with the truth . These characterizations, too, were originally conferred with a sense of professional appreciation (I first heard them on the lips of some Jesuit friends), but they have also been pulled out of truth's orbit and into the atmosphere of mendacity. | Someone who is economical with the truth cannot be honest. | neutral |
The price index (weighted price) for basic mail in 1996 was 39. | The price index for mail in 1996 was one of the highest ones on the market. | neutral |
Reed's departure will diminish the movement's influence. | Reed leaving will make the movement more powerful. | contradiction |
The whole thing's damned awkward! | The situation is completely acceptable. | contradiction |
yeah yeah up in uh New England it's uh uh you know three or four or five months tops after that you're in the house | Over in New York you have ten months tops before you even set foot in that building. | contradiction |
GAO's significant human capital imbalances and risks stem from dramatic budgetary cuts, downsizing, hiring freezes, and other related actions from 1992 through1997. | The budgetary cuts were dramatic. | neutral |
Some city delivery routes, called curb line routes, use vehicles to provide curbside delivery to a mail receptacle along the curb as is done by rural routes. | In some of the cities, vehicles are used for delivering mail along the curb. | entailment |
Be sure to plan ahead through the Tourist Information Office or a Delhi travel agency, because admission to the park is by permit only. | You can walk right in; the park is open to the public. | contradiction |
hundreds of thousand you can't even give them away | A lot, so you can't even give them away, you have to think of other things | neutral |
when i was much younger it was uh less important to consider retirement and less important to consider medical benefits but as i grow older and my family grows it the medical benefits are more important and the retirement is more important | Young people don't understand the importance of planning for your future health. | neutral |
Convenient that they were here, I thought, then remembered vaguely: Derry and I planned this. | I remembered Derry and I had set this whole plan up. | neutral |
we we went in and did what we set out to do i i have there's there's been like a lot of things said about if it was a political well if it was a war for oil or a a war for ideals and seems to be real mixed between those two things | The war on Iraq was highly controversial at the time. | neutral |
The modern unity of France was in the making. | The unification of France has been planned since 1990. | neutral |
Signatory countries will be prohibited from buying chemicals--those with only residual military use that are not banned--from nonsignatory countries. | There are ways around the ban on buying chemicals from nonsignatory countries. | neutral |
i guess the one that really got me too was that uh let's say your spouse is on a particular drug and you know what that is and then you end up with the same problem and you take their leftover medicine that's not allowed | Your spouse is not allowed to take the leftover medicine | entailment |
Now, after years of litigation, a frustrated Schultz plans to put the house on the market. | Schultz is happy living in his home. | contradiction |
yeah there was a little girl picked up in Rowlett from uh from her front yard and her dad was working in the back yard and had just left her few minutes in the front yard and somebody apparently drove up and took her and they never saw her again | A little girl in Rowlett was abducted and never found, the parents blame themselves. | neutral |
you know that's sixteen hours because one would come in the morning and one would be at night i mean in the afternoon and then that night it wouldn't need one | I wouldn't need anyone at night. | entailment |
Of the once white walls of Memphis, little remains, but it was capital of Egypt until the end of the sixth Dynasty (c. 2200 b.c. ). The two major relics are a monumental statue of Ramses II lying proseate after losing its feet, and an alabaster sphinx dating from 1400 b.c. | Very little remains of Memphis' previously white walls. | entailment |
The capital of the Gododdin was Din Eidyn (the Fort of Eidyn, almost certainly the Castle Rock), whose name lives on in the Edin- of Edinburgh. | Edinburgh was named for Din Eidyn because it was probably the Castle Rock, an important place in Gododdin. | neutral |
The Galleria provides a sheltered, much trafficked pedestrian passage from the Duomo to another holy entity, the revered 18th-century La Scala theater, high temple of opera. | The theater sees over 500,000 visitors each year. | neutral |
I, Hercule Poirot, affirm that the man who entered the chemist's shop, and purchased strychnine at six o'clock on Monday last was not Mr. Inglethorp, for at six o'clock on that day Mr. Inglethorp was escorting Mrs. Raikes back to her home from a neighbouring farm. | I can confirm that the man who entered the chemist's shop was not Mr Inglethorp. | entailment |
Democrats persuasively called Livingston's resignation a surrender to a developing sexual McCarthyism, portrayed Clinton as a fellow victim of this McCarthyism, and argued that Clinton should be spared expulsion as a first step toward ending the madness. | Democrats thought Clinton cheating on his wife was no big deal. | neutral |
oh no that's funny | That is hilarious. | contradiction |
It's simply bare-faced fortune hunting; but there you are, she is her own mistress, and she's married him." | She is in a sexually intimate relationship with him. | neutral |
Oftentimes, these polar opposites come Ise-Shima, the most sacred of all sanctuaries of Shinto (Japan's ancient, nature-worshipping indigenous religion) reinforces Japan's profoundly intimate links with the Sun Goddess and her grandson, the God of the Earth. | Shinto is a Japanese religion that worships nature and believes in peace. | neutral |
Court Merrigan from TeleRead wrote: 'You not likely come across anything quite like Password Incorrect any time soon. | Court Merrigan thought Password Incorrect was very funny. | neutral |
Uprisings in the towns and countryside began to pose serious threats to the shogun's authority. | The authority of the shogun was under no threat from foreign interests. | neutral |
She was still sweet as they make them. | She was as bitter as they get. | contradiction |
well and some of the issues are so emotional | Some issues are too emotional. | neutral |
but in the fall i had to spend a couple of weekends out there on you know two separate weekends just getting rid of leaves | I spent a lot of time in the fall just clearing the leaves. | entailment |
Blackmail is saying you'll tell unless you are given money. | Blackmailers may press for even more money over time. | neutral |
However, there was a problem. | Everything went off without a hitch. | contradiction |
The excavations are actually less impressive than those at most other Turkish sites, but for those who have enjoyed Homer's Iliad and Odyssey it is a magical place, where the stones are haunted by the spirits of Helen and Paris, Achilles, and Agamemnon. | People who enjoyed Homer's Illiad find it to be a haunted location and are scared to return at night. | neutral |
The papacy in Rome had lost prestige with the dissolution of the Jesuits and the crippling loss of revenue from the Hapsburg Church reforms. | The papacy was falling and not doing well. | entailment |
Inside the basilica, in the choir, you can see some fine 13th- and 14th-century sculptures and stained-glass windows. | There are stained-glass windows visible in the basilica. | entailment |
The non-stop lift takes 55 seconds from ground to the observatory, but offers spectacular views of the city and beyond! | The lift was designed to offer the spectacular views. | neutral |
Got you a couple of blooded hosses an' a good heavy money belt. | He gave him a money belt. | entailment |
Breasts have lost much of their mythological aura and acquired some needed reality. | People are not excited by breasts anymore. | neutral |
Which of you is the strongest? asked Jon. | The man asked for directions to the nearest exit. | contradiction |
and losing it in the competitive market and a real knowledge uh a lack of understanding how that could be and in the sense that how could America have gone from being number one to possibly being number two to you know our former enemies and things like that and um so i see i see a lot of uh a lot of pessimism growing um and at the same time i think there's there's there's a growing environmentalist movement and sense of corporate responsible increased corporate responsible towards uh you know environmental safety and things like that and that might potentially be sort of the civil right the equivalent of the Civil Rights Act in in the near future | I really wonder how America has lost its competitive edge and fallen behind other countries. | entailment |
The initial approach route, along the A593 from Ambleside, is characterized by rocky knolls rising from the valley bottoms. | The route coming from Ambleside along the A593 is said to be a rocky path and is not recommended for beginners. | neutral |
of it being a little bit too low and i my bathing suit's just one piece so there's no big deal all the way around but i don't have to be conscious of what i'm doing or how i'm doing it | I am wearing a very modest swimsuit that i bought at target. | neutral |
she likes to sew and do crafts and things like that so she enjoys staying at home but uh the money part of it is not as rewarding obviously but | She used to work a fulltime job, before she decided to stay at home. | neutral |
The river Canche flows right through the center of this small town, disappearing under buildings and hump-backed bridges. | The town has no water source in it. | contradiction |
Uphill to the south of the park lies the Agora, one of the few remaining traces of Izmir's ancient history. | The hill to get to Agora is not steep and worth going up. | neutral |
In additional to internal communications, management should ensure there are adequate means of communicating with, and obtaining information from, external stakeholders that may have a significant impact on the agency achieving its goals. | Communication should be conducted over email and video conferencing systems. | neutral |
Suffice to say it has no true heat, but does send forth an activating principle against the phlogiston layer, which being excited grows vengeful against the air ... | It has lots of true heat. | contradiction |
And the teens in that one were so much meaner than Ann-Margret's boyfriend, Bobbie Rydell. | Bobbie Rydell is a known teenager. | neutral |
no no i'm in Detroit or not Detroit i'm in uh California | I'm no longer in Detroit, I moved to California. | neutral |
Dolly Parton's breast implants against Mark McGwire's shrunken, steroid-ruined testicles. | Dolly Parton's breast implants contrasting Mark McGwire's shrunken testicles. | entailment |
The New Radicals sound like Todd Rundgren has just emerged from the cryogenics lab where he's lain frozen since 1972. | The New Radicals sound like Todd Rundgren. | entailment |
Its majesty is most notable in the balconies of the Royal Harem, which have screens of the most delicate latticework. | The latticework in the Royal Harem is clumsy and heavy-handed. | contradiction |
but they they've got so much young raw talent it's just amazing and then they just haven't been able to put anything together | They will be going to a camp to learn how to play as a team better. | neutral |
Concerns about the reliability of value estimates from CV studies arose because research has shown that bias can be introduced easily into these studies if they are not carefully conducted. | Research on bias can be biased as well. | neutral |
If you would like to scale the highest heights, you'll need expert guidance. | Some lessons and advice are a good idea if you want to climb. | entailment |
Many responses pivoted on the amusing contrast between uptown swells and downtown schlubs, but this reliable device, the mighty comic engine that generated so many terrific Depression-era comedies and dimwitted Lampoon movies--Snobs vs. | There was no visible difference between the uptown and downtown. | contradiction |
Four monasteries developed as a source of protection still remain, and each has a church, monks' quarters and a sturdy high wall. | Only three monasteries still exist here, and all their walls are crumpled and weak. | contradiction |
There was nothing like that emotion now. | There are few emotions that come close. | neutral |
Drawing a blank? | You can be drawing a blank. | entailment |
Legacy, predicting that he will keep custody of his kids but lose his appeal of the civil decision. | His children love their father and it's a great thing they're together. | neutral |
Clearly, California can - and must - do better. | California cannot do any better. | contradiction |
It was once regarded as the most beautiful street in Europe, a claim that is difficult to understand today since so many of the original buildings have been replaced. | So many of the original buildings had been replaced by convenience stores. | neutral |
Houseboats are a beautifully preserved tradition of the heyday of the British Raj. | The tradition of houseboats originated while the British Raj was still going strong. | entailment |
Obituaries fondly recalled his on-air debates and two thumbs up salutes with fellow reviewer Roger Ebert on their eponymous syndicated TV show. | The obituaries were beautiful and written in kind about his accomplishments in the entertainment industry. | neutral |
in that other you know uh that i should do it or that or just to think about doing it rat her than having someone tell him to do it i know that was a big thing in our house for a long time was that if i wanted my husband to do something to help | My husband has been so overworked lately that I can't bring myself to ask him to do much around here. | neutral |