Premise: Nancy owes its classical beauty to King Stanislas Leszczynski of Poland.

Hypothesis: It's beauty is due to King Stanislas Leszczynski of Poland.
Answer: yes

Premise: As you know, the Roman and the Ottoman empires suffered from grave internal weaknesses but persisted for centuries.

Hypothesis: No one realizes that the Roman empire had serious internal weaknesses.
Answer: no

Premise: There were fourteen of us.

Hypothesis: There were many of us.
Answer: yes

Premise: The legislative history of the 1996 revision contains no discussion of the present in the United States requirement and no indication that Congress sought to alter existing practice regarding the representation of aliens.

Hypothesis: The legislative history of the 1996 revision proves that Congress altered practices regarding representation of aliens.
Answer: no