Problem: (1) Recker kept the grocery store and Portner concentrated on expanding the brewery .
(2) Recker kept the grocery store and Portner focused on expanding the brewery .

Do (1) and (2) mean the same thing?
A: yes

Problem: (1) Then Agrippa Polemon I sent of Pontus to take Scribonius and remove the throne itself .
(2) Agrippa then sent Polemon I of Pontus to take Scribonius and remove the throne himself .

Do (1) and (2) mean the same thing?
A: no

Problem: (1) For a horizontal edge , we want to interpolate in vertical direction , using only the column centered on the pixel .
(2) For a vertical edge , we want to interpolate in a horizontal direction , using only the column centered at the pixel .

Do (1) and (2) mean the same thing?
A: no

Problem: (1) Renee Descartes , the founder of analytical geometry , believed that the natural world is objectively measurable and that the space is infinitely divisible .
(2) Renee Descartes , the founder of the analytical geometry , believed that the natural world is objectively divisible and that the space is infinitely measurable .

Do (1) and (2) mean the same thing?
A:
no