Sentence 1: The book is said to degenerate into a jeremiad when Rhodes anoints mad-cow disease the new Black Death.

Sentence 2: The Black Death is a name for mad-cow disease.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: yes

Sentence 1: (I fear the former.)

Sentence 2: What you initially said is a very scary thing to me.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Sentence 1: i thought they would

Sentence 2: I expected them not to.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer:
no