Sentence 1: The Commentariat Would Like a Nonsmoking Table, Most polls agree that a quarter of the American adult population smokes regularly.

Sentence 2: The commentariat requests for a smoking table.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: no

Sentence 1: Have You Stopped Beating Your Spokesman?

Sentence 2: Did you stop beating the spokesman you hired?
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: yes

Sentence 1: The assessment also discusses the costs involved in two alternatives that were considered but were found not to adequately reflect the intent of the legislation, as reflected by the legislative history of Public Law 104-193.

Sentence 2: The costs of these alternatives were very high.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer:
it is not possible to tell