Premise: GAO found that these agencies are in the early stages of using a set of balanced expectations to appraise senior executive performance and there are significant opportunities to strengthen their efforts as they move forward in holding executives accountable for results.

Hypothesis: GAO studied how the agencies operated.
Answer: yes

Premise: Brunelleschi is at his most elegant in the Old Sacristy at the end of the left transept (site of a few Medici tombs), decorated with four Donatello wall-medallions (the artist himself is buried in the left transept).

Hypothesis: Brunelleschi spent seven years designing the Old Sacristy.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: but then my father's uh sixty five years old and he's he doesn't show any signs of having to cut back either so there's hope for me maybe i'll maintain that

Hypothesis: my father is 65 and my mother is 62, they are both still going strong
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: Historically, the fabric of life has been sustained by religion.

Hypothesis: The fabric of life continues because of religion.
Answer: yes