Sentence 1: Federal employees should be viewed not as costs to be cut, but as assets to be valued.

Sentence 2: Federal employees are often viewed as a cost to cut.
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Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Sentence 1: 'What?'

Sentence 2: Huh?
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Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: yes

Sentence 1: Ashcroft regularly berates the Republican Congress for having cut and run rather than having tackled tough moral issues.

Sentence 2: Ashcroft berates Republican Congress for running from moral issues.
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- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer:
yes