Sentence 1: A new national fraternity of scholars with expertise in the arts, sciences, and law emerged as itinerant consultants to visionary rulers eager to make their city-states centers of cultural prestige and political propaganda.

Sentence 2: Expert scholars began to do consulting for the rulers.
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Answer: yes

Sentence 1: Japan hoped that war in Europe would divert the Soviet Union from interference in East Asia, giving Japan a free hand both in China and, through its alliance with Germany, in French Indochina after the defeat of France.

Sentence 2: Japan knew that the Soviet Union would not be diverted at all and waited for impending doom.
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Answer: no

Sentence 1: Locally made items do not live up to their European models.

Sentence 2: European models are better than the locally made variants.
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yes