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Each year, NASIRE presents Recognition Awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Information Technology to those programs and systems that have created cost-effective, innovative solutions in the operation of state government. | NASIRE's Recognition Awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Information Technology are presented annually. | entailment |
I am an astronomer, after all." | I am only a plumber. | contradiction |
and so um yeah uh yeah i guess i usually do i like to cook um heavy sauces and um | I never cook because I hate cooking. | contradiction |
At the MGM Grand Adventure Theme Park (Tel. 702/891-7777; open spring and summer only), visitors can raft a small river, take a 200-ft (61-m) freefall from the Sky Screamer, watch a colorful sea battle, or chat with strolling MGM characters. | The MGM Grand Adventure Theme Park is only open in the fall. | contradiction |
oh i'm sorry it was nice talking to you | I'm sorry but this conversation made me very uncomfortable. | contradiction |
Jon studied the man's dark eyes and graying hair. | He took a moment to study him before speaking. | neutral |
Quite a few clubs can be found along Leeson Street, although some say the strip has faded a bit in recent years. | Leeson Street is known as the only street with no pubs. | contradiction |
ratemaking provisions. | Ratemaking has no provisions. | contradiction |
Runaways or not, they will put up a fight. | Despite their being runaways, they will fight fiercely. | entailment |
so i have to cut myself down to the weekend plus after work um the MacNeil Lehrer news hour is on public television and i enjoy that quite a bit | MacNeil Lehrer news hour on public television has insightful and unbiased reporting. | neutral |
But it is well worth a visit to the top (a short hike from the bus stop) to peer down into the bleak, barren crater emitting puffs of sulfurous fumes and contrasting starkly with the colorful vegetation all around it. | The bus stop is not located at the top. | contradiction |
Joseph finally finds his way through the metaphors, while Rosen proves himself a master of the more prosaic but rich art of the simile. | Joseph deals with similes while Rosen deals with metaphors. | contradiction |
We continue to ask whether agencies are spending their technology dollars on the right things. | They are not asking any questions. | contradiction |
you know when they pull in there's a snake instead of a fish and things like that that i'm just | I don't like the snakes on the line. | neutral |
The avenue is a busy mix of architectural styles and contains several fine examples of Art Nouveau and Art Deco. | The avenue is one of the last examples of Art Nouveau and Art Deco. | neutral |
But how? Tommy took the note in question from his pocket and passed it round the table. | Tommy passed a note around the table after taking it out of his pocket and straightening it. | neutral |
Those recipients should strive to follow his example. | He is not someone for the recipients to look up to. | contradiction |
Such controls are critical to determining the reliability of interim reporting and various ongoing assertions by the company throughout the year. | Interim reporting is not dependent on any controls. | contradiction |
The simplest explanation is always the most likely." | The simplest explanation is rarely the correct one. | contradiction |
But it's hard not to see in these smiling peasants a warning of what such openings can bring in their wake. | The smiling peasants bring a warning of what such openings can bring. | entailment |
yeah big time i i'll bet they could hold their own in the NBA | They would suck in the NBA. | contradiction |
And if so? | And if that's true? | entailment |
But once again, even these Title X clients are in no worse position than if Congress had never enacted Title X. The financial constraints that restrict an indigent woman's ability to enjoy the full range of constitutionally protected freedom of choice are the product not of governmental restrictions on access to abortion, but rather of her indigency. | A woman's ability to enjoy freedom of choice was hindered by financial burdens. | entailment |
Several of these professional women across from me were wearing Ally McBeal skirts. | I saw some women wearing Ally McBeal skirts. | entailment |
Turkey remained neutral during World War II until 1945, when it entered the war on the side of the Allies. | It was strategically advantageous for Turkey to remain neutral until 1945. | neutral |
To get your bearings, picture Paris as a circle, with the river Seine threading across the center, flanked by famous landmarks Notre-Dame, the Louvre, place de la Concorde, Arc de Triomphe, the Tour Eiffel. | To figure out where you are, just imagine Paris as a circle, with the Seine going across the middle. | entailment |
Champagne-Ardennes | Paris | contradiction |
uh-huh not only that but this machine can be hooked up to a regular TV set and you can do video presentations with it it has all kinds of software you can use that Commodore makes called Amiga Vision so that you can take pictures in and then you can make up your own video presentation Hewlett Packard uses it Hewlett Packards makes PC's and they use the Amiga to do video presentations and um uh campaigns educational type uh presentations for the engineers incidentally incidentally Bausch and Lomb uses it too | This machine can be hooked up to a regular TV and do video presentations. | entailment |
Inland, there are some beautiful excursions to be made into the forests of l'Ospedale and Zonza. | The forests of l'Ospedale and Zonza are nice places to visit inland. | entailment |
One example is our Day of Service. | Our Day of Service is one example. | entailment |
News zooms in) for their Kenneth Starr cover stories. | News is spreading about how Kenneth Starr got zoomed on. | neutral |
It has ranges of barren hills and mountains as well as green fertile valleys that produce grapes and olives in abundance. | The valleys are very fertile in the summer time. | neutral |
Emissions reductions are required by the end of 2007. | Emissions reductions are currently voluntary. | contradiction |
The WP 's TV column notes that earlier this week, the Los Angeles City Council passed a motion condemning the new sitcom The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer, a show about a black butler and personal advisor to President Lincoln that includes cavalier references to slavery. | Lincoln has no black butler. | contradiction |
OK gentlemen, do you have other samples? Because what you've offered me so far, I must regretfully say is acceptable for a not-so-bright manager of a field airstrip in Asswhack. | The samples you've offered me are brilliant, thank you very much. | contradiction |
For a detailed listing of local events beyond the Strip, pick up one of the two free alternative newsweeklies, Cityife or Las Vegas Weekly. | There are local events outside of the Strip that you can find listed in one of the local newspapers. | neutral |
You can see his grave and that of his great love, Esther Johnson, as well as the pulpit from which he preached. | Esther Johnson was his great love. | entailment |
yeah i know that's who he put in charge of the firm you | I have no idea who's in charge of the firm these days. | contradiction |
that's what i need | I needed to hear that, thanks. | neutral |
difficult to get through | It's difficult to get through because of traffic. | neutral |
The style of the crosebeamed roofs and simple wooden frames is the same as that used more than 2,000 years ago, before Chinese architecture exerted its influence when Buddhism arrived here from Korea. | China has had no influence on Japan. | contradiction |
Others, like Indiana and Colorado, have one service area encompassing the entire state and one corresponding statewide program. | Indiana and Colorado have one service area encompassing the entire state and even some of their bordering states, too! | neutral |
The rules likewise expedite public notice and procedural scheduling, providing for a yes or no Commission decision within 90 days, consistent with the due process rights of other parties. | A yes or no Commission decision should be within 90 days. | entailment |
Rooms are luxurious, and the hotel pub especially atmospheric. | The hotel is grand and good quality. | entailment |
yeah plus i think he lives at a small hillside too so | Yeah he lives on the large riverbank. | contradiction |
well i this you know just about anybody you could name whether i voted for them or not uh makes um uh | I did vote for them. | neutral |
Where the process has gone on long enough--say, in South Korea or Taiwan--average wages start to approach what an American teen-ager can earn at McDonald's. | Average wages in the United Kingdom and Russia are approaching McDonald's levels of pay. | contradiction |
Environmental and Health Benefits of Cleaner Vehicles and Fuels. | there are massive environmental and health benefits for cleaner cars and fuels. | neutral |
uh and and there's some very specific things you can find you can even narrow narrow it down to where it was made i mean people are so aware of these things that there are certain identifying marks on there that would not be on a real one and uh you you can almost tell the area somebody probably even knows the guy who made them | There's ways to narrow it down. | entailment |
Bountiful food sources might have made Malaysia an inviting place for the contemporaries of Java Man in 230,000 b.c. | Food sources made Malaysia discouraging. | contradiction |
Ah, that I cannot say. | The speaker cannot answer a question being posed to them. | entailment |
These programs include expansion and strengthening of existing information programs, financial incentives, and energy efficiency standards on motors systems. | The programs strengthen existing financial incentives. | entailment |
Quantitative methods were incorporated in the case study in two ways. | The methods were used in the case study in more than one way. | entailment |
and that she does that on Thursdays and then occasional Saturday's and i can take off on those Thursday's and be home in time to for her to go off to work and it's cheaper for me to do that and take my vacation even if i uh | I can get home in time for her to go to work. | entailment |
but uh oh i watch things like uh Sixty Minutes every week uh | I like to watch the show every week. | entailment |
Would you have any objection to telling us exactly what passed between you? | Do you mind telling us in detail what transpired between you? | entailment |
The Riverdance craze came to a bizarre ending last night as the show's star Michael Flatley was pummeled to death by audience members at a Sturgis, S.D., biker rally. | Michael Flatley was killed by ten bikers in Sturgis. | neutral |
the the fast mowing places you had to buy a big one you know because it meant something for your macho same reason why you have to drive a big truck with four wheels you know with four wheel drive | Most men don't care about the mower they use, as long as it gets the job done. | contradiction |
I definitely wasn't the slightest bit happy. | I was filled with happiness. | contradiction |
It was a beautiful day. | The weather was great. | entailment |
so i think those kinds of things to make it more home like and to make it more um enjoyable for them that'd that'd be one thing i'd look for along with the uh health care aspects to make sure they had you know that it was clean and that they had good doctors and nurses | If they make it more home-like that means they probably have better healthcare providers. | neutral |
A small display inside is dedicated to the benefactor. | The investor was so nice that they included an exhibit with him. | neutral |
and a and an attached two car garage and a breezeway and it was a it's a pretty substantial home i | The garage had space for only one car. | contradiction |
okay now when you babysit what age group children do you sit with | Do you babysit kids on weekends? | neutral |
Taking him into my confidence would be the best thing either way, so I told him everything except where I believed the papers to be hidden. | I told him everything except where I believed the papers to be hidden, including what they contained and how I'd come into possession of them in the first place. | neutral |
Another park is Sunway Lagoon in Bandar Sunway, located near the state capital of Selangor, Shah Alam; it is known for its water attractions and rides. | Bandar Sunway is located far away from the state capital of Selangor, Shah Alam. | contradiction |
While biological mechanisms for this effect have not yet been definitively established, the weight of the available epidemiological evidence supports an assumption of causality. | Current epidemiological evidence shows some causality. | entailment |
One leading companyas CIO said that recruiting information management workers with special skills in areas such as data networks and systems administration is extremely competitive. | One CIO said recruiting information management workers with special skills like data networks is very competitive and they usually lose to companies in SIlicon Valley. | neutral |
On a boiler equipped with an ESP or a fabric filter (FF) for particle collection, the configuration would look as in Figure 4-1. | The Figure is very clear. | neutral |
we need to we need to probably try to get more one on one with the teachers and the and the students if we could | We would not have this issue if students agreed to spend more time with teachers. | neutral |
Clinton used the Reserve Officers Training Corps to escape the draft, then backed out and never served in the ROTC. | Clinton used the Reserve Officers Training Corps to dodge the draft in a shady way. | neutral |
He had looked at her so kindly. | He has no sympathy for her. | contradiction |
Sit down she said and | She told him to sit down and be quiet. | neutral |
They are often joined by courageous tourists, who usually get more applause than do the professionals. | The tourists are sometimes rather skilled. | neutral |
The capture of some of the important manufacturing and reliability knowledge should begin in the integration phase in order to have the full knowledge needed to make decisions at the end of the demonstration phase for transitioning into production. | The integration phase is when some important information should be collected. | entailment |
Come, said Conrad harshly. | Conrad spoke harshly, pointing in front of him. | neutral |
Lombards invade Milan and much of Italy; Venice founded on lagoon | Italy was never invaded. | contradiction |
that would be nice | That could never work out, it would be horrible. | contradiction |
but uh every time the kids didn't go we'd go and we'd go out there and just you know at at like ten o'clock in the morning and set up and there would be all these people gathered around that you know all the tailgaters and stuff and then everybody would wander into the stadium you know | We would always go with the kids and avoid the place where all the tailgaters were. | contradiction |
The Indonesian movement was a rather spontaneous resistance led by ordinary students, workers, the unemployed, and the lower-middle classes. | The Indonesian movement was led by people from all walks of life. | entailment |
Also on the riverside of El-Nil Street is the Mummy Museum, with an eclectic collection of artifacts and information about the art of mummification. | Information about the process of mummification cannot be found at the Mummy Museum. | contradiction |
However, participants generally agreed that while the accounting profession needs to take additional steps to address any misunderstanding as to the limits of an audit, there is room to improve the audit process and auditor reporting. | Participants generally agreed that there is room to improve the audit process. | entailment |
To more vividly convey that coloring, many newspapers encourage their reporters to wield the tools of the novelist, opening a story with an evocative detail, such as these leads, both from the front of today's New York Times : Ana Estela Lopeze dreamed of saving enough money to return to El Salvador to open a clothing store and build a three-bedroom house; and Rani, an illiterate woman from the washermen's caste, changed into her prettiest sari one recent morning. | The Newspapers are more than ten. | neutral |
The iron and steelworkers union has 150,000 members. | The iron and steelworkers union has less than 15,000 members. | contradiction |
Guangzhou is famous for its food. | Guangzhou has not derived fame from its food. | contradiction |
The visitors are, indeed, using you, but you've permitted it. | You, in you lax laws, have allowed visitors to use you. | neutral |
Every limb provided resistance- I had to work twice as hard to make them move. | It was extremely hard to move my limbs. | entailment |
The main plantations are the Boh Tea Estate and the Sungai Palas and Blue Valley tea estates. | The Blue Valley tea estates are not one of the the major plantations. | contradiction |
Rice needs lots of water, so the paddy (the shoots are grown from seed) is transplanted when the June rains flood the fields. | Rice requires a lot of water to grow. | entailment |
uh-huh oh yeah uh another thing how about uh have you been to the Texans Texoma side | You haven't been to Texas at all? | contradiction |
We often use multiple methods, and the audit trail technique now recommended for case study use was itself adopted from such auditing procedures as workpapers and referencing, which are standard practice with GAO. | We use multiple methods and follow GAO standard practices when conducting a business audit. | neutral |
Performances of musical works are regularly held in Cochin's neighboring town of Ernakulam. | You cannot watch any musical performances in Ernakulam. | contradiction |
The cover story exults that now is the best time ever to be black in America. | They wanted their readers to be proud of their heritage. | neutral |
Adrin stared at the sword and then at Jon. | Adrin imagined stabbing the man with the sword. | neutral |
The rule was determined to be a significant regulatory action under Executive Order No. | The rule was introduced by Congress. | neutral |
The two squares are separated by the 12th-century cathedral and 13th-century octagonal baptistery. | There are two squares divided by a cathedral and a baptistery. | entailment |
Probably descendants of the invading Scythians and Huns, the Rajputs were a formidable opposition met by the waves of invaders Turks, Afghans, and Mughals. | The Mughals did not invade. | contradiction |
He thought the facts had been misrepresented. | The facts were represented concisely and truthfully. | contradiction |
But in turn the pope had to kneel in allegiance, and this exchange of spiritual blessing for military protection laid the seeds of future conflict between the papacy and secular rulers, compounded in 962 when Otto I was crowned Emperor of the newly formed Holy Roman Empire. | Otto became the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 962. | entailment |
horrified and fascinated by what i was seeing | I was relaxed and apathetic to what I was seeing | contradiction |
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