Premise:
"The dark made it hard to see more than centimetres ahead, and but for the streaks of starlight we would have been blind."
Hypothesis: It was hard to see because it was so bright outside.

no

Premise:
"How, for example, can Japan be stuck in a seemingly intractable slump--one that it does not seem able to get out of simply by printing coupons?"
Hypothesis: How can Japan be so stuck in a slump that coupons will not help?

yes

Premise:
"um well my dad in his alcoholism he was kind of irritating and it there were a few times he was violent towards my mother but it was almost he like if he had any opinions to give he would tell my mother and she would tell us and so we had almost no direct relationship with him i mean he was there and and we you know did little things together as a family but on the whole there was no"
Hypothesis: My father usually communicated with us through my mother.
yes