Context:
Interim Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, has won a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election and will succeed the late Yasser Arafat.
Hypothesis: Mahmoud Abbas was a interm Leader
Yes
Context:
Oil prices, notoriously vulnerable to political events, spiked as high as $40 a barrel during the Gulf War in 1991.
Hypothesis: The spike in oil prices was unexpected.
It's impossible to say
Context:
The government is claiming that the agency will provide better, more cost effective service to the public, to business, to the provinces and territories by bringing about tax harmonization with the provinces and therefore huge tax savings resulting from the elimination of such things as duplication and overlaps in tax administration among various levels of government.
Hypothesis: The government claims that the public and businesses are not paying their fair share of taxes
No