In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to determine if the two sentences clearly agree/disagree with each other, or if this can't be determined. Indicate your answer as yes or no respectively.
Q: Sentence 1: The feeling began to grow that the only way out of the crisis was to open the country to foreign trade and new ideas. Sentence 2: Most critics saw a bright future for the country so long as nothing changed.
A:
yes