Sentence 1: Only this time, apparently, fortune was going to favor him.

Sentence 2: He was fortunate this time.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: yes

Sentence 1: The Missouri Court of Appeals in St. Louis has blocked a judge's proposal to give as much as $750,000 to organizations that provide legal services for the poor.

Sentence 2: The motion has been blocked for the last 3 months.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Sentence 1: That is one paragraph out of a 2,000-point essay, Buchanan retorted, suggesting an affinity with Lindbergh.

Sentence 2: The essay is 5 pages long and written in Times New Roman.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer:
it is not possible to tell