In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

[Q]: Sentence 1:At the Verkhovna Rada building , house of the Ukrainian Parliament , Volodarsky and his girlfriend were arrested for stripping naked and simulating public sex . Sentence 2:As a result , Volodarsky served six weeks in police detention , and a six - month sentence in a penal colony .
[A]: as a result


[Q]: Sentence 1:This occurs east of the mountains down through the Mid Atlantic states . Sentence 2:Meanwhile , a Pacific storm slammed onto the California coast during the 11th and as it moved eastward , a new area of low pressure developed across southeastern Colorado and the Texas Panhandle .
[A]: meanwhile


[Q]: Sentence 1:Cragen and his detectives later determined that the wife of the boy 's biological father killed his mother and gave the baby to the adoption agency , where he was given a home . Sentence 2:In the end , the boy 's biological father won custody of him .
[A]:
in the end