Anchor: If Texaco executives had indulged their personal tastes for Van Gogh oil paintings at a multimillion-dollar cost to the stockholders, it would be self-evident that the stockholders had been plundered.
Entailed: It would be clear that stockholders had been cheated if the executives had spent millions on oil paintings.
Contradiction: Even if the executives had indulged personal tastes using millions of dollars of stockholder money, it would be unclear that stockholders had been cheated.
Contradiction: The later element is why a mayor is important.
Contradiction: Foreign intervention is required in that instance.
Contradiction: The store is out of produce for the day
Contradiction: The animal is outdoors.