In this task, you will be given two sentences sentence1 and sentence2. You should decide whether the second sentence is entailed(agreed) by the first sentence. If it does entail, answer "yes", else answer "no".

Let me give you an example: sentence1:region is nation in location
sentence2:region is country in location
The answer to this example can be: yes
Here is why: A nation is a community of people of similar characteristics/descent with a common government. A country is a region sharing a common government. Hence, a nation can be defined as a country.

OK. solve this:
sentence1:employer is eliminating  sports_team sentence1:employer is facing  sports_team 
Answer:
yes