Premise: Fado songs, accompanied by classical guitar, generally deal with the hardships of seafaring life.

Hypothesis: Naval life is the primary topic of fado music.


Premise: The rebels occupied the alc?ºar, which had by then been converted to a royal palace.

Hypothesis: The rebels were able to occupy the palace for 2 weeks.


Premise: The Museum of Scotland, with its main entrance on Chambers Street, is housed in a remarkable new museum building (opened in 1998) designed by architects Benson and Forsyth.

Hypothesis: The museum of scotland is 400,000 square feet.


Premise: You got you Shiloh, Drew, an' you said you made a foal deal with th' Old Man.

Hypothesis: You made a deal with the old man to buy 15 prime foals.


Premise: Prince Charlie fled and was pursued over the Highlands before escaping in a French ship.

Hypothesis: Prince Charlie was pursued over the Highlands by Dutch royalty.


Premise: Tour operators often promote Monte, Pico dos Barcelos, and Curral das Freiras as a popular half-day excursion.

Hypothesis: These locations receive hundreds of visitors every day.


Premise: General Accounting Office, Human  Practices That Empowered and Involved Employees, GAO-01-1070 (Washington, D.C.: Sept. 14, 2001); Human  The Role of Ombudsmen in Dispute Resolution, GAO-01-466 (Washington, D.C.: Apr.

Hypothesis: General Accounting Office handles financial responsibilities and helps employee empowerment.


Premise: And even with clean practices and technologies like steaming of meat (which hasn't been tested nearly as much), some food would still be contaminated.

Hypothesis: Meat needs to be steamed at a temperature of 160 degrees.


Premise: LSC also solicited input from leaders in the area of intake systems and presented the draft characteristics during a workshop on Best Practices at the March ABA/NLADA Equal Justice Conference.

Hypothesis: LSC had nearly 1,000 people attend their presentation during their workshop.


Premise: It was begun in the momentous year of 1066, and William the Con?quer?or made its first abbot his archbishop of Ceterbury.

Hypothesis: The construction began in June 1066.


Premise: The titanic colossus presided over the most beautiful town Jon had seen in the south.

Hypothesis: Jon had been to thirty southern towns.


Premise: you know all that stuff at home and i'm starting to see more and more recycling centers cropping up all over the place here on the east coast

Hypothesis: More than a dozen new recycling centers have been opened on the east coat in the last five years.


Premise: The fun parts include getting to touch an iceberg, experiencing the effects of an earthquake in total safety, and lying on the floor of the Showdome to watch exciting weather phenomena flashing above.

Hypothesis: It's fun to touch an iceberg in the museum.


Premise: Data will be presented for all programs for the base year and at least 6 years subsequent to the base year, summarized in sufficient detail to identify, at least, (1) receipts by major source (e.g.

Hypothesis: Data will be presented for at least six years and summarized in tables.


Premise: where do you get most of your current events

Hypothesis: Does your news source come from Wikipedia or Google, like mine?


Premise: Jodie T. Allen's A Brief History of Taxes was indeed brief, though perhaps appropriately so, given the very narrow focus of her argument.

Hypothesis: Jodie Allen's book was only 30 pages long.


Premise: They include Clients Consulting a Sorceress and Strolling Musicians, vivid little friezes of an octopus, a cat catching a quail, and the huge exciting mural of Alexander driving Darius of Persia from the battlefield at Issus in 333 b.c.

Hypothesis: The mural of Alexander took two years to paint.


Premise: no other than than reestablishing the dominance of the United States in the in the world economy

Hypothesis: No, other than reestablishing US dominance over the next 10 years.


Premise: While preserving the neighborhood groups' own boards of directors, the proposed plan makes them accountable to one central LSNY board for decisions like staffing and budgets.

Hypothesis: The suggested plan makes them accountable to a board of five people.


Premise: The hole would be empty.

Hypothesis: The hole was four feet deep.


Premise: He carefully climbed back down and rejoined his other sleeping companions.

Hypothesis: He laid on the mattress and went back to sleep.


Premise: Beyond the Bassin d'Apollon is the Grand Canal, on which the king kept his Venetian gondolas.

Hypothesis: The king was the proud owner of five Venetian gondolas.


Premise: In going each year to the cemetery, we place a stone on the monument, in commemoration of the acts of Joshua and Samuel in giving praise to the Lord.

Hypothesis: Every half year we place flowers on the monument.


Premise: I'd made my plan whilst I was waiting for her.

Hypothesis: I sat on the bed while I waited for her.


Premise: Possibly she applied oil to the hinges, for I found that it opened quite noiselessly when I tried it.

Hypothesis: She had oiled the hinges that same morning.


Premise: Bush prays with Methodist ministers via cell phone.

Hypothesis: Bush has a Samsung Galaxy smartphone.


Premise: how many children do you have yeah i do too

Hypothesis: I have twenty-five children.


Premise: there's a lot of um-hum

Hypothesis: There are over three hundred.


Premise: The station houses, however, still give an impression of the grandeur of the recent past.

Hypothesis: There are hundreds of station houses.


Premise: First, the population has exploded.

Hypothesis: The population increased by 4,000,000.


Premise: IC payments to the

Hypothesis: The payments were due early in the month.


Premise: Sole practitioner Carolyn Elefant, frustrated that

Hypothesis: Carolyn Elefant has been the only practitioner for three years.


Premise: Unless you already have some experience in the region, we recommend that you use the services of the many first-class local tour operators.

Hypothesis: There are five highly regarded local tour operators.


Premise: It's an excellent focal point, giving new visitors an easy reference to establish their location; it's a spectacular vantage point for many of the city's great landmarks; and its bridges and quays offer history, entertainment, shopping and exercise.

Hypothesis: The top floor of the tower gives a great view over the city and the nearby bay.


Premise: Once Caterpillar has established this plan, it tracks demonstrated reliability against it as a management tool to measure progress.

Hypothesis: Caterpillar does multiple reliability tests on a single product.


Premise: When she was editor of British Vogue , Wintour commuted between London and New York--on the Concorde.

Hypothesis: The British Vogue is a magazine series.


Premise: Directly across from the Kumari Bahal stands the incongruous white Grecian facade of a palace wing that was built in 1908 by Prime Minister Chandra Shumshere, a Rana responsible for the Singha Durbar and many of the city's neoclassical edifices.

Hypothesis: It took 5 years to build.


Premise: The prisoner had, accordingly, gone to the appointed spot, and after waiting there vainly for half an hour had returned home.

Hypothesis: The prisoner had apparently gone where he was told and waited 30 minutes before returning home.


Premise: It should've been a breeze- easiest job in the world.

Hypothesis: The job took about 10 minutes of my time


Premise: Seconds after tipoff, Jordan launched a turnaround jumper, his new signature shot, hitting nothing but net.

Hypothesis: Jordan scored a three-pointer just five seconds after tipoff.


Premise: Breaking  Susan Page reported on Late Edition that President Clinton would make a January recess appointment of Bill Lann Lee to the job the Senate won't confirm him for, assistant attorney general for civil rights.

Hypothesis: Susan Page was on Late Edition on February 9.


Premise: Cave 9, a sanctuary from the first century b.c. , is smaller than number 10.

Hypothesis: Number 11 is larger than both Number 10 and Cave 9.


Premise: As part of the ebb and flow of Slate

Hypothesis: Slate changes drastically every year.


Premise: Dominating the mouth of Sant Antoni Bay is the gaunt silhouette of the island of Coniera, or Conejera (meaning rabbit's warren or burrow ).

Hypothesis: Coniera is the only island within ten miles of Sant Antoni Bay.


Premise: The form of address, you understand, is merely the battleground for the simmering war between them.

Hypothesis: The two parties had been fighting for decades.


Premise: The intervention, which lasted 30 to 40 minutes, was delivered in the emergency department either immediately or within a couple of days of the visit.

Hypothesis: The intervention was less than an hour.


Premise: From early in the morning to late at night, bars and cafes serve breakfast, snacks, coffee, and drinks.

Hypothesis: Bars and cafes serve meals, snacks and beverages throughout the day.


Premise: forbade religion for years and years and God's the one that opened the doors for their religion for for Christianity to go in Russia it's not it's not Gorbachev he will not receive the credit for that because one man

Hypothesis: There are now an estimated 10 million Christians in Russia.


Premise: In 1990, the Commission on Legal Needs in Maine, chaired by former Senator Edmund Muskie and made up of Commissioners drawn from the judiciary, the legislature, the private bar, and the low-income community, convened a series of hearings around the state and issued a report calling for increased resources for legal services with a number of recommendations for improving access.

Hypothesis: Edmund Muskie has been the chairman for ten years.


Premise: and then i did a hour of aerobics

Hypothesis: Before the aerobics, I did an hour of weights.


Premise: A young girl.

Hypothesis: The girl was under 20.


Premise: IVR telephone availability 24 hours/day could facilitate follow-up of ED patients.

Hypothesis: Followup activities have been shown to improve outcomes in thirty percent of cases.


Premise: Its avant-garde circular design contrasts sharply with the dreary buildings around it.

Hypothesis: It was designed in the 20th century.


Premise: The commission's October 1997 report, Critical  Protecting America's Infrastructures, described the potentially devastating implications of poor information security from a national perspective.

Hypothesis: The Commission has been giving monthly reports for 40 years.


Premise: uh connect Berkeley with San Francisco with Oakland and and a couple of other cities but if it were to go to complete completely around the Bay and when you ever you get on BART BART's just absolutely wonderful because it's fast it's clean it's really efficient and it's it's actually fun to ride but uh it's just you you know it's its its been half assed and uh they need to completely uh you know

Hypothesis: You can get from Berkeley to San Francisco in about two hours.


Premise: Japan's austere, ruthless, but statesmanlike new ruler, Yoritomo Minamoto, set up his government in Kamakura (just south of modern Tokyo), well away from the  softening  influence of court life that had been the undoing of his predecessor, Kiyomori.

Hypothesis: Yoritomo Minamoto ruled for several decades after he took power.


Premise: they're they're uh you know they're gasoline and they have a mechanical contraption on it you pull the handle and it pulls the lawn mower for you um it takes me about an hour to do to to do my lawn

Hypothesis: They cost around $200 new but I found one at a yardsale for $70.


Premise: Ginsburg has a lifetime of connections to tap, and he's an expert tapper, said Jack Reilly, executive director of Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Inc.

Hypothesis: Jack Reilly has been the executive director for over 3 decades.


Premise: For nonmusicologists, that upward leaping orchestral figure he mentions is the bit that

Hypothesis: The orchestral figure is bigger than the Brooklyn bridge.


Premise: Although the United States accounts for 30 percent of global GDP, it received two-thirds of the saving exported by countries with current account surpluses in 1999.

Hypothesis: The USA makes up 30%, and Mexico makes up just 1%, of global GDP annually.


Premise: Sophisticated research is required to tease apart the complex interactions between These variables.

Hypothesis: There are twelve different variables which have been identified as critical.


Premise: There is no legitimate basis for declaring a504(a)(16) facially unconstitutional.

Hypothesis: 23 senators propose that a504(a)(16) be declared facially unconstitutional.


Premise: Still a 54,000-acre working cattle and horse ranch on the west side of the island, this is Molokai's most deluxe resort, with fine rooms with large lanais in the new lodge and three clusters of upscale  tentalows and yurts, including one deluxe camp right on the beach.

Hypothesis: There is a cattle ranch on the west side of the island that allows vistors every day.


Premise: Development of an outcome measures reporting system to supplement or replace LSC's CSR system is underway.

Hypothesis: The LSC's CSR system is going to be changed next year.


Premise: The Final Report and Order is subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, and has received OMB clearance (OMB #3060-0636).

Hypothesis: The Final Report and Order passed on Oct. 12, 1999.


Premise: Do you still want to join us?

Hypothesis: Would you still like to meet us at the steakhouse for dinner saturday?


Premise: If the couple would have otherwise spent the $4,000.

Hypothesis: The couple would have spent $4000


Premise: Exposure Draft

Hypothesis: The Exposure Draft had been requested weeks ago.


Premise: We issued our second report in January 2001.

Hypothesis: The second report was issued on January 28, 2001.


Premise: Welcoming the decision in an editorial, the paper said it creates a  No dictator or tyrant may cite national sovereignty to claim impunity from justice.

Hypothesis: Welcoming the decision in an editorial, the paper said it creates a new column about Formula 1.


Premise: Among other things, GAO serves as the independent auditor of the largest, most diverse and most important entity on the face of the earth - the U.S.

Hypothesis: GAO serves as the independent auditor of the general population.


Premise: According to the Office of the Actuary at the Health Care Financing Administration, the estimated net present value of future additional resources needed to fund HI benefits alone over the 75 years is $4.

Hypothesis: The net present value of future additional resources for funding HI benefits was almost $5.


Premise: He an' his men was bushwhacked.

Hypothesis: They had been riding day and night for the past week.


Premise: and uh and uh i don't know how we're going to do that right away though but what what in general though that taxes are doing to us is it's just taking uh a bite out of our savings

Hypothesis: Taxes are taking a bite out of the money we've been keeping since the last 6 years.


Premise: Other states got it instead.

Hypothesis: In total, 10 states got it.


Premise: The weeklong trip, which must have cost thousands, resulted in a short piece.

Hypothesis: The trip was one week and cost thousands.


Premise: The volcano's name is thought to derive from an Ainu word for fire.

Hypothesis: The volcano was given its name two hundred years ago.


Premise: And all of this in year-round sub-tropical spring weather with a southerly breeze and temperatures averaging 22?? C in summer and 17?? C in winter.

Hypothesis: THe weather is about 20 degrees C in the spring.


Premise: At the east end of the Louvre is the Cour Carr??e, covering the original fortress built by Philippe Auguste in 1190 to protect Paris from river attack while he was away on a crusade.

Hypothesis: Philippe Auguste was the general for the French army.


Premise: how do you feel about other other uh things like public uh safety buses bus drivers and and uh airplane drivers or or pilots rather you

Hypothesis: How do you feel about public service operators taking drug tests?


Premise: One of a chain of popular Argentine meat houses.

Hypothesis: It is a chain restaurant in Argentina.


Premise: Drew had a fleeting prick of worry.

Hypothesis: Drew was worried for ten seconds.


Premise: But useful, functioning institutions are not created by a single stroke of the pen.

Hypothesis: On average, institutions take at least five years and 100 employees to get off the ground.


Premise: That lowered their interest rate to 9 percent.

Hypothesis: The previous interest rate was at 50 percent.


Premise: To receive facsimile copies of the daily list or any list from the past 30 days, please call (202) 512-6000 using a touchtone phone.

Hypothesis: Copies are available by fax.


Premise: About three dozen cases, involving 123 people facing eviction, were handled, according to Volunteer Lawyer Project Director Barbara Romeo.

Hypothesis: Barb Romeo is responsible for handling over 20 eviction cases.


Premise: 8 After 2010, we assumed discretionary spending would grow at the same rate as GDP.

Hypothesis: GDP and discretionary spending were expected to grow by 20 percent after 2010.


Premise: The modern unity of France was in the making.

Hypothesis: The unification of France has been planned since 1990.


Premise: The Galleria provides a sheltered, much trafficked pedestrian passage from the Duomo to another holy entity, the revered 18th-century La Scala theater, high temple of opera.

Hypothesis: The theater sees over 500,000 visitors each year.


Premise: Democrats persuasively called Livingston's resignation a surrender to a developing sexual McCarthyism, portrayed Clinton as a fellow victim of this McCarthyism, and argued that Clinton should be spared expulsion as a first step toward ending the madness.

Hypothesis: Democrats thought Clinton cheating on his wife was no big deal.