QUES: " Our party will never be the choice of the NRA - and I am not looking to be the candidate of the NRA , " he said .

Our party will never be the choice of the N.R.A. , and I 'm not looking to be the candidate of the N.R.A. , " a reference to the National Rifle Association .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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ANS: yes

QUES: Tampa Bay manager Lou Piniella , bench coach John McLaren and right fielder Aubrey Huff were ejected for arguing after Huff was called out on strikes to end the ninth .

Tampa Bay manager Lou Piniella , bench coach John McLaren and Huff all were ejected in the middle of the ninth .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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ANS: no

QUES: " This is not a scaled-down version of the Oracle Enterprise Edition or Standard Edition [ database ] .

The Standard Edition One is a single processor version of the Oracle Standard Edition Database .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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no