Sentence 1: As part of the ebb and flow of Slate

Sentence 2: Slate goes through changes.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: yes

Sentence 1: Of course civil disobedience--breaking the law (and taking the punishment)--is a valid, even noble, way to dramatize iniquity and create pressure for change.

Sentence 2: Civil disobedience never creates change.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: no

Sentence 1: Connaught Place straddles the northeast southwest axis which links the Jama Masjid mosque of Old Delhi to India's parliament, Sansad Bhavan.

Sentence 2: Connaught Place is located in the city of Mumbai.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer:
no