Sentence 1: As part of its implementation of Executive Order 12866, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) prepared a cost and budgetary analysis.

Sentence 2: An analysis of costs and budgets was carried out by the VA.
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Answer: yes

Sentence 1: Time 's enthusiastic package echoes the familiar line about why Bush is the Republican The breadth of his support among blacks and Hispanics and his landslide re-election victory wowed the GOP.

Sentence 2: Support from blacks and Hispanics made the GOP take notice.
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Answer: yes

Sentence 1: Hanuman is a beneficent deity predating classical Hinduism, and the reason why no one would dream of harming the little lemurs (monkeys) running around here.

Sentence 2: Because of Hanuman, no one ever harms the little lemurs that run around here.
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Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

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yes