{"query": "But other sources close to the sale said Vivendi was keeping the door open to further bids and hoped to see bidders interested in individual assets team up.", "pos": ["But other sources close to the sale said Vivendi was keeping the door open for further bids in the next day or two."], "neg": ["A man jumps into a wall.", "A man is hitting a boy with flower vase.", "Mr Blair went on: \"I think we did the right thing in relation to Iraq.", "The lesson that this House in this morning's debate must learn is that we are forced to conclude that the maritime laws are all over the world, in a state of chaos, and that we must set about the task to sort all this out.", "Sgt. Ernest Bucklew, 33, was coming home from Iraq to bury his mother in Pennsylvania."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "U.S. prosecutors have arrested more than 130 individuals and have seized more than $17 million in a continuing crackdown on Internet fraud and abuse.", "pos": ["More than 130 people have been arrested and $17 million worth of property seized in an Internet fraud sweep announced Friday by three U.S. government agencies."], "neg": ["An animal is walking on the ground.", "\"We are very pleased with the judge's decision,\" Merrill said yesterday.", "That is a shameful state of affairs when we consider that the EU itself is a champion of modernised business practice.", "Israeli soldiers began tearing down settlement outposts in the West Bank yesterday - an Israeli obligation under a new Mideast peace plan.", "McGill also said a dark glove was stuffed into a hole that had been cut in the Caprice's trunk."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Authorities said the scientist properly quarantined himself at home after he developed SARS symptoms Dec. 10.", "pos": ["The scientist also quarantined himself at home as soon as he developed SARS symptoms, officials said."], "neg": ["Seven 20- and 21-year-old male cadets were caught in an off-campus hotel room early Saturday with two female teens, 16 and 18 years.", "By withdrawing our resolution, I am nevertheless convinced that our Parliament would have done better to its voice heard by spending, for the Council of Nice, a resolution specific and separate with so important and so difficult issues to the Intergovernmental Conference, rather than to deal with them in the context of a single resolution including also all the other items on the agenda of the Council.", "If we want to help Indonesia we must act now with money and deeds, not merely words.", "A new study, conducted in Europe, found the medicine worked just as well as an earlier disputed study, sponsored by ImClone Systems, said it did.", "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The man accused of using fake grenades to commandeer a Cuban plane that landed in Key West in April was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison.", "pos": ["A Cuban architect was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for using two fake grenades to hijack a passenger plane from Cuba to Florida in April."], "neg": ["A man is exercising.", "Approval of the Minutes of the previous sitting", "It is gratifying that Parliament has succeeded in producing a large majority in favour of more openness.", "I call on Prague to respond to this signal, this challenge, this plea for dialogue, to grant our request and to ensure, together with our House, that this legacy of a nationalist era can be consigned to the past.", "All those who are at present engaged in illicit work would obtain work with decent social conditions."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Jim Williams, director of the US-VISIT project, said that by the middle of November, many arriving passengers in Atlanta will be fingerprinted and photographed.", "pos": ["Jim Williams, director of the US-VISIT project, said that by the middle of November, inspectors will be fingerprinting and photographing many foreign passengers arriving in Atlanta."], "neg": ["The only way for which no tax is not yet seen is that of supply in the European Community from third countries.", "A Caesarean had originally been planned in mid- November, two weeks early.", "Since the initial reflections on this issue, which took place at European level at the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission is committed towards the Member States to promote action to develop what we could consider it as a police European culture, focused on the highest standards in the field of ethics, respect for the rights and freedoms of the people, and effectiveness in the fight against crime.", "With diplomacy heating up in the nearly 10-month-old crisis, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing flies to Japan on Sunday en route to South Korea on August 13.", "A woman is slicing a leek."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The hearing occurred a day after the Pentagon for the first time singled out an officer, Dallager, for not addressing the scandal.", "pos": ["The hearing came one day after the Pentagon for the first time singled out an officer - Dallager - for failing to address the scandal."], "neg": ["- (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united Europe.", "Two teams play soccer.", "\"The European Union is basically absent,\" said Tito Barbini, regional minister for agriculture in Tuscany, Italy.", "I also voted against a text which calls for the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the eventual Treaty of Nice.", "The baby is laughing and crawling."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Episcopal Church ''is alienating itself from the Anglican Communion,'' said the Very Rev. Peter Karanja, provost of the All Saints Cathedral, in Nairobi.", "pos": ["In Nairobi, the provost of All Saints Cathedral, the Very Reverend Peter Karanja, said the US Episcopal Church was alienating itself from the Anglican Communion."], "neg": ["Reiterating the calls made by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000, what initiatives does the Presidency of the European Council propose to take with a view to playing a more active role so as to guarantee the full and complete application of the UN peace plan?", "The dollar fell as low as $1.1624 per euro from $1.1486 on Friday, and traded at $1.1594 at 10:15 a.m. in London.", "At 12 months there was still a difference in function, although it was not a significant one.", "DRINKING green tea can dramatically reduce the risk of men contracting prostate cancer, a study by Australian researchers has discovered.", "All those who are at present engaged in illicit work would obtain work with decent social conditions."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Counties with population declines will be Vermillion, Posey and Madison.", "pos": ["Vermillion, Posey and Madison County populations will decline."], "neg": ["People with the same business affairs in common are peacefully bound to one another.", "GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. Annika Sorenstam drew the crowds, Michelle Wie got the publicity but Angela Stanford took her first LPGA victory.", "A woman is cutting potato.", "A girl is singing on stage.", "The tech-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC eased 5.16 points, or 0.32 percent, at 1,590.75, breaking a six-day string of gains."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The last time the survey was conducted, in 1995, those numbers matched.", "pos": ["In 1995, the last survey, those numbers were equal."], "neg": ["\"I am advised that certain allegations of criminal conduct have been interposed against my counsel, J. Michael Boxley,'' the Silver statement said. \"", "Dealers said the euro's downward momentum may pick up speed should it break below $1.15.", "A woman is cutting a tomato.", "The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 3.42 points, or 0.34 percent, to 1,007.84.", "We started to have exchanges on this question, from where it arises that all the Member States wish the maintenance of this ceiling after widening."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Higher courts have ruled that the tablets broke the constitutional separation of church and state.", "pos": ["The federal courts have ruled that the monument violates the constitutional ban against state-established religion."], "neg": ["My party has serious reservations about the regulation of the sale of consumer goods through Community legislation, as it expresses reservations about the concept of mutual recognition of standards.", "Clearly, explanations are necessary for the increased incidence of BSE, not only in France but also in other Member States.", "A man is putting rice in a bowling pot.", "In it, he has recognised the quality of potential candidates for membership in the countries participating in the stabilisation and association process.", "Furthermore, we would like to have a chance to prove to the Europe that we are able to develop only the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro in Yugoslavia, recognising the genuine democratic principles."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "When the bomb exploded at the Casa de España, customers were eating dinner and playing bingo.", "pos": ["At the Casa de Espaa, customers were eating dinner and playing bingo when a bomb went off."], "neg": ["That made them heavily dependent on loans.", "The Council of Europe, along with the Court of Human Rights, has a wealth of experience of such forms of supervision, and we can build on these.", "The French Presidency thanks you, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for this cooperation, for your support and also for the warm reception you have given us.", "A woman is writing something.", "In an E-mail statement to the Knoxville News Sentinel, Shumaker said, ''I am not giving any consideration to resignation."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Plofsky said the commission won't investigate because the three-year statute of limitations has expired.", "pos": ["The panel will not begin a formal investigation because the statute of limitations has expired, Plofsky said."], "neg": ["We have heard that the previous presidency has first restructured and then dismantled the Ministry of equal opportunities.", "A woman is exercising.", "Secondly, we must say 'no' to the concept being recognised that the big bang, but at the same time, a large group of countries, because this would be in contradiction with the principle of the admission of each country on its merits.", "A baby is playing with a dog.", "Deirdre Hisler, Government Canyon's manager, said the state has long had its eye on this piece of property and is eager to complete the deal to obtain it."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Squyres is principal investigator for the Athena payload - a collection of science instruments carted by each rover.", "pos": ["Steve Squyres, a Cornell University scientist, is principal investigator for the missions' science instruments."], "neg": ["I stress this point because the market cannot regulate everything, which is why competition is not completely unrestricted, nor should it be.", "On the contrary, the power of the national democracies is increasingly to restrict the right of veto and of giving Parliament more power for the EU.", "A man is passionately playing a guitar in front of an audience.", "The woman is eating.", "\"I came basically to Washington to establish relationships and to make sure that we are getting more federal money to California,\" Schwarzenegger said after meeting with congressional Republicans."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Lawyers and others familiar with the federal investigation say it remains focused on Campbell, though prosecutors declined to discuss the probe.", "pos": ["While federal prosecutors refuse to discuss the investigation, lawyers and others familiar with it say it remains focused on Campbell."], "neg": ["In my eyes, there is however nothing worse than to have to inform people that a judgment delivered in their favour could be only one series of comforting words and not to have any practical consequence on their existence.", "Edie Falco was not nominated for \"Frankie and Johnny.\"", "A baby is playing with a dog.", "Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez said investigators felt confident that with the arrests they had \"at least one of the fires resolved.\"", "A man is playing his guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Dodgers won their sixth consecutive game their longest win streak since 2001 as they edged Colorado, 3-2, Wednesday in front of a crowd of 25,332 at Dodger Stadium.", "pos": ["The Dodgers won their sixth consecutive game and seventh in their last nine as they beat Colorado 3-2 on Wednesday in front of a crowd of 25,332 at Dodger Stadium."], "neg": ["This is a hospital that treats everybody as people, and if we could do that throughout the world, we could end terrorism.\"", "We congratulate the provisions proposed in this respect by the Committee and by the general Assembly of the United Nations with regard to the method of non-governmental organisations, and the extraordinary session of September 2001.", "A woman is talking on a telephone.", "This could also apply to all drugs but dangerous insofar as the consumer of drugs is the only to run risks.", "A woman is slicing fruit."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Security experts are warning that a new mass-mailing worm is spreading widely across the Internet, sometimes posing as e-mail from the Microsoft founder.", "pos": ["A new worm has been spreading rapidly across the Internet, sometimes pretending to be an e-mail from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, antivirus vendors said Monday."], "neg": ["A step in the right direction, for which the European Parliament has been striving for a long time now, is the creation of a provisional unit for judicial cooperation.", "Lastly, and it is there a subject more discussed, the commission invited with strength to make use of the procedure accelerated to put in uvre this legislation.", "Firstly, that of a simplification of the Treaties.", "Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar devoted to equal opportunities reinforces the integrated approach to equality through gender mainstreaming and through specific guidelines.", "But skeptics are concerned about the ease with which vendors can use these hardware-based security features to set digital rights management policies."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr Sahel said police had identified the bodies of seven of the 14-strong cell believed to have carried out the five almost simultaneous attacks on Saturday.", "pos": ["He said police had identified the bodies of seven of the 14 bombers who launched five almost simultaneous raids Friday night."], "neg": ["The hearing occurred a day after the Pentagon for the first time singled out an officer, Dallager, for not addressing the scandal.", "The man is throwing knives at a tree.", "As long ago as 1996 the European Parliament came out in favour of a ban on the use of meat-and-bone meal throughout the European Union in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only.", "A woman is hitting a man.", "These objectives, the secondary primary objective and objectives, will represent the stone of key enabling us to consider the concrete proposals presented by the Commission."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The University of Michigan released today a new admissions policy after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down in June the way it previously admitted undergraduates.", "pos": ["The University of Michigan plans to release a new undergraduate admissions policy Thursday after its acceptance requirements were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in June."], "neg": ["Republicans had pledged to complete a Medicare drug package by August, then extended the deadline to Oct. 17, and they are still working on it.", "A woman is beating two eggs in a bowl using a wire whisk.", "\"We were seconds away from having that happen,\" Albuquerque Fire Chief Robert Ortega said.", "Complicating the situation is the presence of battle-hardened Liberians who have been fighting on both sides.", "The study also found that consumer goods advertisers continued to spend the most dollars online, representing 35% of all Web advertising."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Former company chief financial officer Franklyn M. Bergonzi pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy on June 5 and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.", "pos": ["Last week, former chief financial officer Franklyn Bergonzi pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and agreed to cooperate with the government's investigation."], "neg": ["Bulger's brother, a former FBI informant, is now on the law enforcement agency's \"10 Most Wanted\" list.", "A man is slicing an onion.", "Above all, when a one-man company or a company with fewer than 250 employees has a project, it should not need to provide 120% loan guarantees in the form of land to receive financing; it should also be possible for it to be funded on the basis of a good idea.", "Since the first thoughts on this issue, which took place at European level on the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission is committed to the Member States to promote action to develop what we could consider a European police culture, based on the highest standards in terms of ethics, respect for citizens' rights and freedoms, and effectiveness in the fight against crime.", "Worst of all, I believe, is having to issue a warning that a court judgment in their favour may just be a set of comforting words and make no real difference in their lives."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The device plays Internet radio streams and comes with a 30-day trial of RealNetworks' Rhapsody music service.", "pos": ["The product also streams Internet radio and comes with a 30-day free trial for RealNetworks' Rhapsody digital music subscription service."], "neg": ["A man is playing the guitar and singing.", "In fact, it is by no means certain that the definition of fair prices which is being proposed is better than another, because the different definitions currently used in the Member States all are quite adequate.", "A cat, perched on a table, looks out the window.", "A man is running.", "A budget line financing demining and prevention programmes for years."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Ms. Cripps-Prawak left last Friday, two days after the department introduced a plan to distribute medical marijuana through doctors' offices.", "pos": ["The director of the Office of Medical Access, Cindy Cripps-Prawak, left her job after the department introduced a plan to distribute marijuana through doctors' offices."], "neg": ["The other viewpoint illustrated by the rapporteur' s initial statement and shared by a number of members is to promote regulations and codes of conduct which are needed in order to establish among insurers ways of organising costs on a mutual basis providing everybody with guaranteed access to high-quality care and to counter the risk of discriminatory practices developing together with risk and client selection.", "Another person, a man from Fort Worth, Texas, also was missing.", "We started discussions on this issue, which show that all the Member States wish to maintaining this ceiling after enlargement.", "A person is quickly chopping mushrooms with a knife.", "A man dives into a pool."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "During 2001 and 2002, Morgenthau said, wire transfers from just four of Beacon Hill's 40 accounts totaled more than $3.2 billion.", "pos": ["Wire transfers from four of the 40 accounts open at Beacon Hill totaled more than $3.2 billion from 2001 to 2002, Morgenthau said."], "neg": ["I stress this point because the market cannot regulate everything, which is why competition is not completely unrestricted, nor should it be.", "It seemed like an isolated incident,'' said graduate Ariel Dean of Washington, D.C.", "A women slicing lemons.", "\"We've become like total strangers,\" Klein quotes him as saying.", "The only other person who had not been accounted for Sunday was a man from Fort Worth, Texas."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The bill says that a woman who undergoes such an abortion couldn't be prosecuted.", "pos": ["A woman who underwent such an abortion could not be prosecuted under the bill."], "neg": ["A cat is licking itself.", "A band is playing and singing on a stage.", "The man is playing the keyboards.", "They will continue to put pressure on the money they earned with distribution beyond the bounds of 150 grams enables them to improve their position.", "A man is playing the drums."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "\"I came basically to Washington to establish relationships and to make sure that we are getting more federal money to California,\" Schwarzenegger said after meeting with congressional Republicans.", "pos": ["\"I came to Washington basically to establish relationships and make sure we are getting more federal money,\" Schwarzenegger said after one meeting."], "neg": ["The union had not yet revealed which chain would be targeted.", "If we want to help Indonesia we must act now with money and deeds, not merely words.", "A woman is chopping garlic.", "Swartz had sought to have the charges dismissed, saying New Hampshire was the wrong place to charge him.", "It is gratifying that Parliament has succeeded in producing a large majority in favour of more openness."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Another shooting linked to the spree occurred Nov. 11 at Hamilton Central Elementary in Obetz, about two miles from the freeway.", "pos": ["The latest shooting linked to the spree was a Nov. 11 shooting at Hamilton Township Elementary School in Obetz, about two miles from the freeway."], "neg": ["Kiernan testified that Seifert had received a gunshot wound to the back.", "A man is lifting weights.", "This is America, my friends, and it should not happen here,\" he said to loud applause.", "But other sources close to the sale said Vivendi was keeping the door open to further bids and hoped to see bidders interested in individual assets team up.", "It seemed like an isolated incident,\" said Ariel Dean of Washington D.C., who earned a degree in political science."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On Tuesday, the central bank left interest rates steady, as expected, but also declared that overall risks were weighted toward weakness and warned of deflation risks.", "pos": ["The central bank's policy board left rates steady for now, as widely expected, but surprised the market by declaring that overall risks were weighted toward weakness."], "neg": ["A lion is walking in an enclosed area.", "The only case for which no tax is still perceived \"is an example of supply in the European Community from a third country.", "question nº 6 of (H-0886/00):", "Things are not clear on this point, and it is not impossible that we can also remain in force more restrictive provisions, but particularly on this point that we have tabled amendments.", "Bremer, 61, is a onetime assistant to former Secretaries of State William P. Rogers and Henry Kissinger and was ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism from 1986 to 1989."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "According to SunnComm's Peter Jacobs, \"MediaMax performs exactly as 'advertised' to the companies who purchased it.", "pos": ["\"MediaMax performs EXACTLY as \"advertised\" to the companies who purchased it,\" Jacobs said in the statement."], "neg": ["Relief is in sight for Texans saddled with skyrocketing homeowners insurance premiums.", "The $85 million agreement was reached in September, less than two months after Archbishop Sean O'Malley took over as leader of the nation's fourth-largest diocese.", "A person is picking a komodo dragon and putting it in a box.", "Veteran stage and screen actor Hume Cronyn died of cancer Sunday.", "A woman rapidly fires a handgun."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The officials did not say whether U.S. forces crossed into Syrian territory and were vague about how the Syrian border guards became involved.", "pos": ["U.S. officials did not say whether American forces, who were acting on intelligence, crossed into Syrian territory and were vague about how the Syrian guards were involved."], "neg": ["Mr. Bush did not discuss this when he issued a brief statement yesterday thanking the commission for its work, and saying, \"Our journey into space will go on.\"", "On the other hand, we would like to be given a chance to prove to Europe that we are able to develop the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia on our own, by recognising the genuine principles of democracy.", "A man is playing the electric guitar.", "Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a European continent strong and united.", "OPEC this week is set to pressure independent exporters to back the cartel's next supply cut to prevent the resumption of Iraqi exports undercutting oil prices."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Druce is still being held at the prison and is now in isolation, she said.", "pos": ["Druce last night was held in isolation at the same prison."], "neg": ["The 51-year-old nurse worked at North York General Hospital, the epicentre of the latest outbreak.", "A man is opening a package containing headphones.", "A little girl peddling a scooter.", "Firstly, that of simplification and clarification of the Treaties.", "Secondly, it is necessary to say “not” to the concept big-bang which would like that one admits at the same time an major group of country, because that would be in conflict with the principle of the admission of each country according to its merits."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Their leader, Abu Bakr al-Azdi, turned himself in in June; his deputy was killed in a recent shootout with Saudi forces.", "pos": ["Their leader, Abu Bakr al-Azdi, surrendered in June; his deputy was killed in a shoot-out with Saudi forces recently."], "neg": ["A man is driving a car.", "A man is drawing some figures.", "Also as part of the deal, PalmSource stock will begin trading on the NASDAQ stock market Wednesday under the ticker symbol: PSRC.", "Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda.", "Of those who signed the letter, 57 are senators, including 24 Republicans."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Palm Wednesday announced plans to acquire Handspring, a company started by Jeff Hawkins, regarded by many as the father of the Palm handheld.", "pos": ["Palm said on Wednesday it plans to buy Handspring, a company created by renegade Palm co-founder Jeff Hawkins."], "neg": ["Someone is pouring oil into a skillet.", "The privately held Google is believed to be profitable.", "According to security sources, London Metropolitan Police Commissioner John Stevens placed his force on its highest state of alert last week following the warning.", "Kroger Co., which owns Ralphs, and Albertsons Inc. bargain jointly with Safeway and locked out their union workers the next day.", "\"Maybe, but the old age helps us to understand our strength and our weakness and the reality of the world."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "\"I'm not going to be sponsoring it because it is not our proposal but I'm not going to be negative about it\".", "pos": ["\"I'm not going to be sponsoring it because it's not our proposal, but I'm not responding to it in a negative way,\" he said."], "neg": ["A man is walking down a sidewalk.", "The European Commission, the EU's powerful executive body, described the move as \"legally unwarranted, economically unfounded and politically unhelpful.\"", "Stripping out the extraordinary items, fourth-quarter earnings were 64 cents a share compared to 25 cents a share in the prior year.", "Ridge said that no actual explosives or other harmful substances will be used.", "A girl is exercising."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The government recently shelved peace talks with the MILF, being brokered by Malaysia, after a string of attacks, including three bombings, on Mindanao.", "pos": ["The government recently shelved peace talks being brokered by neighbouring Malaysia after a spate of attacks on Mindanao, including three deadly bombings, that it blamed on the MILF."], "neg": ["The victim, who was not identified, was taken to Kings County Hospital where he was pronounced dead.", "The last time the survey was conducted, in 1995, those numbers matched.", "The report also claims that there will be up to 9.3 million visitors to hot spots this year, up again from the meagre 2.5 million in 2002.", "A man and a woman are kissing each other.", "But church members and observers say they anticipate that the decision here could pose doctrinal problems for some Episcopalians who believe the Bible prohibits homosexuality."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The company posted a profit of $54.3 million, or 22 cents per share, in the year-ago period.", "pos": ["That was up from the year-ago quarter, when the company earned $54.3 million, or 22 cents a share."], "neg": ["A woman puts chopped eggplant into a skillet.", ". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united European continent.", "A person is folding a square paper piece.", "A man plays a guitar.", "CBS said the show \"does not present a balanced portrayal of the Reagans for CBS and its audience."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The union had not yet revealed which chain would be targeted.", "pos": ["The union said it would reveal later which chain would be targeted."], "neg": ["The UK Labour Members of the PSE Group welcome the favourable reception reserved for the contribution they have made to the ongoing work of the IGC on reinforced cooperation, without endorsing totally at all the details of this.", "A girl is filing her nails.", "Altria Group Inc. MO.N fell 50 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $41.81.", "U.S. prosecutors have arrested more than 130 individuals and have seized more than $17 million in a continuing crackdown on Internet fraud and abuse.", "The company said it would cut the wholesale price of most top-line CDs to $9.09 from $12.02."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Turkish authorities have said all the suicide bombers were Turks.", "pos": ["Ankara says all four suicide bombers were Turkish."], "neg": ["Investigators uncovered a 4-inch bone fragment Thursday night, but authorities said it was from an animal.", "Shares of Corixa fell 12 cents to $6.88 on the Nasdaq stock market.", "The report forecasts there will be 71,079 hot spots worldwide this year, up from just 14,752 in 2002 and 1,214 in 2001.", "Intel Corp.'s second-quarter profits doubled and revenues grew 8 percent from a year ago as the chip-making giant reported stronger-than-expected demand for personal computer microprocessors.", "Chavez said investigators feel confident they've got \"at least one of the fires resolved in that regard.\""], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "From Florida to Alaska, thousands of revelers vowed to push for more legal rights, including same-sex marriages.", "pos": ["Thousands of revellers, celebrating the decision, vowed to push for more legal rights, including same-sex marriages."], "neg": ["A person draws on a dollar bill.", "Oracle Corp's Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison didn't rule out sweetening the company's unsolicited offer to acquire rival PeopleSoft Inc.", "They say second-quarter earnings reports will be key in giving investors that guidance.", "We started to have exchanges on this question, from where it arises that all the Member States wish the maintenance of this ceiling after widening.", "There is urgency and that is why we have decided to put this issue on the agenda."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Additionally, the h2210’s cradle has room to charge a second battery.", "pos": ["The cradle for the h2200 has space for recharging a second battery."], "neg": ["Of 24 million phoned-in votes, 50.28 percent were for Studdard, putting him 130,000 votes ahead of Aiken.", "Bremer, 61, is a former assistant to former Secretaries of State William P. Rogers and Henry Kissinger.", "A woman is riding a horse.", "The lesson that this House in this morning's debate must learn is that we are forced to conclude that the maritime laws are all over the world, in a state of chaos, and that we must set about the task to sort all this out.", "In Nigeria, the indigenous people all-ijaw accused Chevron to incite violence against them and to pay Nigerian soldiers to draw on the demonstrators in the warri naval base."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "\"Close co-operation between law-enforcement agencies and intelligence services lie at the heart of the ongoing fight against terrorism,\" Mr Howard said.", "pos": ["Close cooperation between regional law enforcement agencies and intelligence services was at the heart of the fight against terrorism, he said."], "neg": ["Security analysts said the new version, W32/Sobig.C-mm, had already reached a \"high level\" outbreak status by mid-afternoon on Monday.", "Still, he noted that Miami must decide whether to seek A.C.C. membership by June 30 to adhere to Big East guidelines.", "A cat is playing.", "Vice President Dick Cheney and Mississippi Republican gubernatorial candidate Haley Barbour acknowledge the cheering crowd.", "Van-Vliet, who was also injured, called in the accident on the school bus radio."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Bush administration blames Hussein loyalists and foreign Muslim militants who have entered Iraq to fight U.S. troops for the wave of bombings and guerrilla attacks.", "pos": ["The Bush administration blames the wave of bombings and guerrilla attacks on Saddam loyalists and foreign Muslim militants who have entered Iraq to fight U.S. troops."], "neg": ["Authorities said the scientist properly quarantined himself at home after he developed SARS symptoms Dec. 10.", "A man is mooing.", "A man is making a bed.", "Her lawyer Donald Levine told The Telegraph she had been offered $US250,000 to tell her story exclusively to Australian TV.", "on the situation in Burma"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It later emerged that he had broken his right thigh and bones in his right wrist and elbow.", "pos": ["Tour doctors later confirmed that he had broken his right leg near the hip and also sustained wrist and elbow fractures."], "neg": ["This is what we have done: we have a budget crisis in coming to Article 272; the financial perspectives have been maintained, even if we have used the flexibility instrument.", "From the first discussions on this dossier, which were held at European level at the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission has given a commitment to the Member States to pursue a course of action designed to develop what we might call a European police culture, grounded in the highest standards of duty, respect for the rights and freedoms of our citizens and efficiency in the fight against crime.", "A person pours some rice pudding into a bowl.", "We have started to exchange ideas on this question, from which it has emerged that all the Member States want to maintain this ceiling after enlargement.", "The new research will be published soon in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The mother also alleged in the lawsuit that she was sexually assaulted by one of the guards.", "pos": ["The mother also contended that she was sexually assaulted by one of the guards during the 1998 confrontation."], "neg": ["It is priced at $5,995 or $195 on a per user licensing plan with a minimum of five users.", "We need to know today, since we are still in uncertainty, what are the scientific data, what are the measures to be taken.", "A woman is dancing.", "Question No 6 by (H-0886/00):", "(Parliament accepted the oral amendment)"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A tropical storm rapidly developed in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday and was expected to hit somewhere along the Texas or Louisiana coasts by Monday night.", "pos": ["A tropical storm rapidly developed in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday and could have hurricane-force winds when it hits land somewhere along the Louisiana coast Monday night."], "neg": ["This is a disgrace when we think that the European Union is a champion of the modernisation of economic life.", "We have started to have discussions on this issue, which show that all the Member States want to keep the ceiling after enlargement.", "This is no time for the faint-hearted.", "After all, it is by no means certain that the proposed definition of equitable price is better than any other, because the various definitions that are currently in use in the Member States are all perfectly satisfactory.", "Two little girls talk on the telephone."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Part of the accord was the implementation of a special health council that would monitor health spending and progress in reforming the health system.", "pos": ["A key portion of the accord was the implementation of a special council to monitor health spending, set goals for the system and measure progress in reforming health care."], "neg": ["Several SUVs parked on residential streets in Monrovia were tagged with ``ELF'' and other slogans, said Sgt. Tom Wright.", "Mr President, the Commission' s attitude to the right of access to documents may be seen from the internal handbook sent on 11 October to employees of the Commission to tell them how to deal with requests from MEPs for access to documents.", "A cat addresses the camera.", "I would urge the French Presidency to do their utmost to overcome this divide, because it is extremely destructive.", "And I am telling you loud and clear: Kostunica must be given his chance here and I therefore hope that he will give amnesty in the next couple of weeks or months, but meanwhile, I do want the introduction of those two new budget lines, democratisation and reconstruction, to be accompanied by political conditions, both from a political and budgetary perspective."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Meningitis is an infection of the spinal cord fluid and the tissue around the brain.", "pos": ["Meningitis is an infection of the fluid in a person's spinal cord and around the brain."], "neg": ["A woman is peeling a potato.", "A man is screaming.", "The Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market rightly insists on no upper limit and a minimum of no less than 7%.", "Those conversations had not taken place as of Tuesday night, according to an Oracle spokeswoman.", "That is what we have done: we have avoided a budgetary crisis by going to Article 272; the financial perspective has been maintained, even though we have used the flexibility instrument."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The companies, Chiron and Aventis Pasteur, together made about 80 million doses of the injected vaccine, which ordinarily would have been enough to meet U.S. demand.", "pos": ["Chiron and Aventis Pasteur together made about 80 million doses, ordinarily enough for U.S. demand, The Associated Press reported."], "neg": ["This Parliament has, however, also for this Fund actions by the use of framework, defined in a statement on the financial perspective.", "In his Jan. 28 State of the Union message, Bush said, \"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.\"", "Shares of M&T, which is based in Buffalo, fell 41 cents, to $91.51.", "A young woman is playing a guitar.", "A group of men are dancing."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mayor Joe T. Parker said late Thursday that the three workers were two men and a woman who were inside the building when the first blast occurred.", "pos": ["The missing workers, two men and a woman, were inside the building when the first blast occurred, Mayor Joe T. Parker said."], "neg": ["Whilst employment may be the European Union' s priority policy, fisheries, as another economic sector, cannot remain on the sidelines.", "Mr President, I would like to focus in my speech on Mrs Lalumière' s report, which I think is clearly worded and well put together.", "To force a recall election of Davis, the valid signatures of 897,158 registered California voters must be turned in to election officials.", "They later fell out and have backed a series of rival Congolese militias in recent years.", "Finally, I welcome the idea that we should review the implementation of the programme annually."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "London-based NCRI official Ali Safavi told Reuters: \"We condemn this raid, which is in our view illegal and morally and politically unjustifiable.\"", "pos": ["\"We condemn this raid which is in our view illegal and morally and politically unjustifiable,\" London-based NCRI official Ali Safavi told Reuters by telephone."], "neg": ["Two kids are playing in a swimming pool with a green colored crocodile float.", "A woman is grating carrots.", "In his letter, McBride charges the Free Software Foundation and Red Hat with trying to undermine U.S. copyright laws.", "Slovakia has not been condemned to the second division and it is logical that it should like to join together with the Czech Republic.", "Besides Hampton and Newport News, the grant funds water testing in Yorktown, King George County, Norfolk and Virginia Beach."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Investigators uncovered a 4-inch bone fragment from beneath the concrete slab Thursday, but it turned out to be an animal bone, authorities said.", "pos": ["Investigators uncovered a 4-inch bone fragment Thursday night, but authorities said it was from an animal."], "neg": ["Shares of McDonald's and Wendy's continued their recent recovery Monday, rising more than 1 percent on the New York Stock Exchange in afternoon trade.", "\"We condemn this raid which is in our view illegal and morally and politically unjustifiable,\" London-based NCRI official Ali Safavi told Reuters by telephone.", "But I would like to say to the House this afternoon that we must not lose sight of the fact that the European Union spends only 1% of the GDP of the Member States and that the bulk of this money is administered in the Member States.", "A step in the right direction, for which the European Parliament has been striving for a long time now, is the creation of a provisional unit for judicial cooperation.", "\"It just seems like all the issues that we support he doesn't,\" said Gabriela Lemus, the league's director of policy and legislation."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Some 95 million Americans -- half of all households -- invest in mutual funds.", "pos": ["About half of all U.S. households have money in mutual funds."], "neg": ["A man is folding a piece of paper.", "The 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey released Wednesday by Statistics Canada says living standards have improved but still lag for the Inuit and those who leave their often impoverished reserves.", "Above all, when a business or a society with fewer than 250 a project, it must be possible for a means not only with a guarantee to 120%, but also on the basis of a good idea.", "A man is slicing a potato.", "A man is cutting a paper."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Once converted, BayStar will own an aggregate of approximately 2.95 million shares of SCO common stock or 17.5 percent of the company's outstanding shares.", "pos": ["The investment gives Larkspur, Calif.-based BayStar more than 2.9 million shares of SCO common stock, or 17.5 percent of the company's outstanding shares."], "neg": ["A man is speaking on a stage.", "We have heard that the previous presidency has restructured first and then dismantled the Ministry of equal opportunities.", "According to law enforcement officials, the individual decrypted passwords on the server.", "Other businesses are volunteering to put the alerts on their electronic signs and billboards.", "A couple of policewomen are singing karaoke."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked Congress today for additional authority to fight unwanted Internet spam, which now accounts for up to half of all e-mail traffic.", "pos": ["The Federal Trade Commission asked Congress yesterday for broader powers to attack the rapidly growing problem of spam, which new studies show accounts for half of all e-mail traffic."], "neg": ["The pressure will intensify today, with national coverage of the final round planned by ESPN and words that are even more difficult.", "All those who are at present engaged in illicit work would obtain work with decent social conditions.", "One could indeed wish for more and for improvement, but I honestly believe that we have made a good start.", "Therefore, I also believe that this reconciliation is sustainable, but that the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the university issue and to many other issues, needs visible signs of its success, and powerful support, else peace throughout the region will be under threat.", "I call on Prague to respond to this signal, this challenge, this plea for dialogue, to grant our request and to ensure, together with our House, that this legacy of a nationalist era can be consigned to the past."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "People who have opposed these actions throughout are now trying to find fresh reasons to say this wasn't the right thing to do.\"", "pos": ["\"What is happening here is that people who have opposed this action throughout are trying to find fresh reasons why it was not the right thing to do.\""], "neg": ["A woman is dancing in the rain.", "I would also have liked the report of the Court of Auditors fusse somewhat more user-friendly and he seen tabled a few clear recommendations - for example, one or two recommendations by chapter.", "A woman is putting on sun glasses.", "The right of a government arbitrarily to set aside its own constitution is the defining characteristic of a tyranny.", "Hernandez filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint and sued."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Klarman was arrested by FBI agents in the Hamptons, an exclusive summer resort enclave east of New York City.", "pos": ["Klarman was arrested by FBI agents Monday morning at his home in New York."], "neg": ["Mr President, we took a great deal of care over preparing the Karamanou report in the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs.", "A woman is slicing a lemon.", "A moose drinks from a sprinkler.", "As the European Parliament called for in its resolution of 16 March 2000, they initiatives the European Council Presidency intend to take to play a more active role in order to ensure the full implementation of the UN peace plan?", "The debate is closed."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The report also claims that there will be up to 9.3 million visitors to hot spots this year, up again from the meagre 2.5 million in 2002.", "pos": ["There will be 9.3 million visitors to hot spots in 2003, up from 2.5 million in 2002, Gartner said."], "neg": ["The report forecasts there will be 71,079 hot spots worldwide this year, up from just 14,752 in 2002 and 1,214 in 2001.", "I thank the rapporteur for the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mr Brok, for his clear and comprehensive report.", "Those who reject the enhanced cooperation have the same freedom of movement that passengers in the back seat of a car.", "A man is writing in a book.", "Ray Brent Marsh, 29, also faces charges of abuse of a body, and theft."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "WORLD No. 2 Lleyton Hewitt has accused the Association of Tennis Professionals of malice, including an alleged attempt last year to dupe him into refusing a drug test.", "pos": ["World No.2 Lleyton Hewitt has accused his professional peers of long-standing malice, including an attempt last year to dupe him into refusing a drug test."], "neg": ["A man jumps into a wall.", "A woman is beating two eggs in a bowl using a wire whisk.", "In two weeks, he'll probably send out Peace Rules in the Preakness.", "A man is cutting a mat.", "This is our priority fight in order to ensure that the affirmation of fundamental rights is put into practice in our political decisions."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "In connection with the incident, I have acknowledged that I behaved inappropriately.\"", "pos": ["\"I have acknowledged that I behaved inappropriately,\" he said."], "neg": ["A boy is onstage playing the violin.", "- (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united Europe.", "A woman is taking a bath.", "A Microsoft spokesman was not immediately available to comment.", "Bush said U.S. and European Union leaders, at an annual Washington summit, agreed on the need to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A spokesman said: \"Since November, we have co-operated fully with the police.", "pos": ["It added it had \"co-operated fully\" with police since November."], "neg": ["She took the highly unusual step of skipping cabinet to attend a meeting with the presidents of Rwanda and Uganda.", "My party issues serious reservations in connection with the regulation of the sales of products of consumption by the means of the community legislation, just like it issues reserves in connection with the concept of mutual recognition of the standards.", "A man is smoking.", "The European Council will also be discussing the state of progress of accession negotiations, and therefore of enlargement.", "Veteran stage and screen actor Hume Cronyn died of cancer Sunday."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Women who eat potatoes and other tuberous vegetables during pregnancy may be at risk of triggering type 1 diabetes in their children, Melbourne researchers believe.", "pos": ["Australian researchers believe they have found a trigger of type 1 diabetes in children - their mothers eating potatoes and other tuberous vegetables during pregnancy."], "neg": ["A machine is sharpening a pencil.", "A bird is bathing in a sink.", "The new version, W32/Sobig.C-mm, had already reached a \"high level\" outbreak status by Monday, according to security analysts.", "Nevertheless, I would like to say to the House this afternoon that we must not lose sight of the fact that the European Union spends only 1% of the GDP of the Member States and that most of this money is managed in the Member States.", "A man is slam dunking a ball."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The leading actress nod went to energetic newcomer Marissa Jaret Winokur as Edna's daughter Tracy.", "pos": ["Marissa Jaret Winokur, as Tracy, won for best actress in a musical."], "neg": ["A man is playing a keyboard.", "Gartner's report said global WLAN equipment shipments reached 19.5 million last year, a 120 percent increase over 2001's 8.9 million units.", "A group of people are dancing in concert.", "This is America, my friends, and it should not happen here,\" he said to loud applause.", "The new research will be published soon in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "\"It appears from our initial report that this was a textbook landing considering the circumstances,\" Burke said.", "pos": ["Said Mr. Burke: \"It was a textbook landing considering the circumstances.\""], "neg": ["But I would like to say to Parliament this afternoon that we should not lose sight of the fact that the EU spends just 1% of GDP and much of that is administered in the Member States.", "You do not want to even integrate it in the Treaty, which proves that this text was to be put on side.", "The man is playing the guitar.", "Spain has done a magnificent job in turning round the difficult neighbourly relations which Europe and North Africa and Spain and Morocco have suffered during the course of history.", "A woman is chopping green onions."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It will take time to oust die-hard remnants of Saddam Hussein's deposed regime in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday.", "pos": ["Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday it will take time to locate die-hard remnants of Saddam Hussein's deposed regime in Iraq."], "neg": ["According to an arrest warrant, Bryant, 24, attacked a woman on June 30.", "The federal courts have ruled that the monument violates the constitutional ban against state-established religion.", "That was changed in the face of criticism, especially from Ireland and France, and a different spin has now been put on it by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer: it is now being portrayed as a user charge for all, including British lorry drivers.", "Unit volumes also set a record as notebooks accounted for more than 40 percent of sales.", "John Hickenlooper had 65 percent of the vote to 35 percent for City Auditor Don Mares."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Beleaguered telecommunications gear maker Lucent Technologies is being investigated by two federal agencies for possible violations of U.S. bribery laws in its operations in Saudi Arabia.", "pos": ["Two federal agencies are investigating telecommunications gear maker Lucent Technologies for possible violations of U.S. bribery laws in its operations in Saudi Arabia."], "neg": ["After Hughes refused to rehire Hernandez, he complained to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.", "Firstly, simplification and clarification of the Treaties.", "We congratulate the provisions proposed in this respect by the Committee and by the general Assembly of the United Nations with regard to the method of non-governmental organisations, and the extraordinary session of September 2001.", "A woman is slicing a big pepper.", "With diplomacy heating up in the nearly 10-month-old crisis, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing flies to Japan on Sunday en route to South Korea on August 13."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Sources within the racing industry have told the Daily Bulletin that Fontana will get a second NASCAR race on Labor Day weekend starting next season.", "pos": ["Sources in the racing industry said Fontana will get a second NASCAR race on Labor Day weekend starting next season."], "neg": ["A man is smashing some garlic.", "The common economic activities create peaceful links between the people.", "Former South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Sunday he did not see what \"all the fuss\" was over appointing a gay bishop, but urged homosexual clergy to remain celibate.", "A kangaroo is eating.", "By withdrawing our resolution, I nevertheless expresses the conviction that our Parliament would have done better its voice heard in devoting, in view of the Nice European Council, a specific and separate resolution to the issues so important and so difficult for the Intergovernmental Conference, rather than dealt with in the context of a single resolution including also all the other items on the agenda for the Council."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "He claimed Red Hat and the Free Software Foundation with trying to undermine U.S. copyright and patent law.", "pos": ["In his letter, McBride charges the Free Software Foundation and Red Hat with trying to undermine U.S. copyright laws."], "neg": ["We shall have to speak with just one disagreeable voice in the WTO.", "A man is playing a piano.", "A man is playing a guitar.", "The man is peeling an apple.", "A cat is rubbing against a baby."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Police then called a bomb squad, but the device exploded, killing Wells, before bomb technicians arrived.", "pos": ["While waiting for a bomb squad to arrive, the bomb exploded, killing Wells."], "neg": ["We have heard that the previous presidency was first restructured then dismantled the Ministry of equal opportunities.", "A woman is puncturing a potato with a fork.", "Stout comes to Sprint from GE Capital, where he served as chief technology and information officer.", "Its shares jumped to $54.50 in pre-open trading from $50.90 at Wednesday's close.", "This Parliament has also fought for this reduction in the funds available for innovative actions should be compensated for by the use of the framework of flexibility, defined in a statement on the financial perspective."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "\"This has been a persistent problem that has not been solved,\" investigation board member Steven Wallace said.", "pos": ["\"This was a persistent problem which has not been solved, mechanically and physically,\" said board member Steven Wallace."], "neg": ["The woman is peeling lemon.", "Shares of M&T, which is based in Buffalo, fell 41 cents, to $91.51.", "Shevaun Pennington disappeared on Saturday morning after arranging to meet 31-year-old Toby Studabaker.", "At 12 months, there was still a difference between the groups, but it was not considered significant.", "A man is talking on the phone."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "At 12 months there was still a difference in function, although it was not a significant one.", "pos": ["At 12 months, there was still a difference between the groups, but it was not considered significant."], "neg": ["While federal prosecutors refuse to discuss the investigation, lawyers and others familiar with it say it remains focused on Campbell.", "The very worst situation is when the women concerned also come from distant countries, having taken the work on out of desperation because they have no other way of continuing to provide for themselves.", "A little girl plays the violin on a beach.", "In Feira, it has recognised the quality of potential candidates for accession to the countries participating in the stabilisation and association process.", "The man is hiking in the woods."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "\"It just seems like all the issues that we support, he doesn't,\" said Gabriela Lemus of LULAC.", "pos": ["\"It just seems like all the issues that we support he doesn't,\" said Gabriela Lemus, the league's director of policy and legislation."], "neg": ["Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement at all than a poor one and it is true that, in this instance, the American proposal was a third-rate proposal, and one which was completely unacceptable to Europe.", "(Parliament accepted the oral amendment)", "The right to a government to remove arbitrarily its Constitution is the defining characteristic of a tyranny.", "That saw the benchmark 10-year note US10YT=RR slip 5/32 in price, taking its yield to 3.36 percent from 3.34 percent late on Thursday.", "We speak with one voice disgracieuse within the WTO."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Ridge said no real explosives or harmful devices will be used in the exercise.", "pos": ["Ridge said that no actual explosives or other harmful substances will be used."], "neg": ["Either we are part of the club, or we are not and we must therefore abide by this decision.", "Colgate shares were down 30 cents at $56 in morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange.", "Whilst employment may be the European Union' s priority policy, fisheries, as another economic sector, cannot remain on the sidelines.", "Approval of the Minutes of the previous sitting", "We welcome the arrangements proposed in this respect by the Preparatory Committee and adopted by the General Assembly regarding procedures for the registration of non-governmental organisations for involvement in the preparatory process and the Special Session in September 2001."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Bashir felt he was being tried by opinion not on the facts, Mahendradatta told Reuters.", "pos": ["Bashir also felt he was being tried by opinion rather than facts of law, he added."], "neg": ["We will speak with one voice grace within the WTO.", "A man is dancing.", "A woman is cutting a tomato.", "Just as the Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe also has a solid experience in terms of such forms of control. We can to base.", "A baby is crawling happily."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Schofield got Toepfer to admit on cross-examination that she ignored many of O'Donnell's suggestions and projects.", "pos": ["But under cross-examination by O'Donnell's attorney, Lorna Schofield, Toepfer conceded she had ignored many of O'Donnell's suggestions and projects."], "neg": ["On the other hand, we would like to be given a chance to prove to Europe that we are able to develop the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia on our own, by recognising the genuine principles of democracy.", "This is a vague area, and it is possible that more restrictive provisions may also remain in force, and this is one point in respect of which we have tabled amendments.", "I find it a little strange to try now to force the Commission to a motion for a resolution and ask him at the same time to draw up a Green Paper on the current state of voluntary insurance and supplementary sickness insurance.", "A cat is playing with an antenna.", "\"The clear message is it should not be used to prevent cardiovascular disease,\" Manson said."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Amnesty International has said that over the past 20 years it has collected information about 17,000 disappearances in Iraq but the actual figure may be much higher.", "pos": ["Amnesty International said that over the past 20 years it had collected information about 17,000 disappearances in Iraq."], "neg": ["I would also have liked to see the report of the Court of Auditors was a little more user-friendly and that he had tabled a number of clear recommendations, for example, one or two recommendations by chapter.", "A step in the right direction, for which the European Parliament has been striving for a long time now, is the creation of a provisional unit for judicial cooperation.", "Box cutters were the weapons used by the 19 hijackers in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.", "A man is dicing an onion.", "Mr Gayssot, Greek ships have sunk without warning, when there were no storms in the vicinity."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "\"We hope all parties will continue to make efforts and continue the process of dialogue,\" the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement.", "pos": ["China's foreign ministry said: \"We hope all parties will continue to make efforts and continue the process of dialogue.\""], "neg": ["I would urge the French Presidency to do their utmost to overcome this divide, because it is extremely destructive.", "A woman is cutting potatoes.", "I invite Prague to seize this sign, this invitation, this request for dialogue, to take action pursuant and to make to it so that, in.liaison.with this Parliament, these one nationalist era old relics can be abandoned.", "A man is being put into an abulance.", "A man guts a fish."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "In a mixture of ancient pagan and modern Christian rites, the villagers have staged a series of ceremonies hoping to erase the misfortunes they believe have kept them poor.", "pos": ["In a mixture of ancient Melanesian pagan and modern Christian ceremonies the people tried again to erase the misfortunes they believe have kept them poor since that long-ago meal."], "neg": ["A boy is riding a horse.", "It is our priority fight so that the affirmation of fundamental rights is implemented in political choices.", "Question No 6 by (H-0886/00):", "A dog is running around a yard.", "The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC rose 17.26 points, or 1.06 percent, to 1,640.06, based on the latest data."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "In that case, the court held that Cincinnati had violated the First Amendment in banning only the advertising pamphlets in the interest of aesthetics.", "pos": ["In that case, the court held that the city of Cincinnati had violated the First Amendment in banning, in the interest of aesthetics, only the advertising pamphlets."], "neg": ["Another person, a man from Fort Worth, Texas, also was missing.", "They will continue to put pressure. The money that they earn with the distribution beyond the limit of 150 grams allows them to strengthen their position.", "A man is playing a violin.", "IBM shares closed up $1.75, or 2.11 percent, at $84.50 on the New York Stock Exchange.", "A man is eating a pizza."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Its former chief Mickey Robinson was fired for cause when he left in September, the company said.", "pos": ["Chief Executive Mickey Robinson was fired for cause in September, the company said last month."], "neg": ["A young woman is playing a guitar.", "On the contrary, the influence of the national democracies is being reduced by the further restriction of the right of veto and by the fact that the European Parliament is being given more power.", "Amgen shares gained 93 cents, or 1.45 percent, to $65.05 in afternoon trading on Nasdaq.", "I stress this point because the market cannot solve all and, in this sense, there cannot be any competition without limits.", "Women are holding each other and dancing together."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Apple Computer's new online music service sold more than 1 million songs during its first week of operation, the company said Monday.", "pos": ["Apple Computer Inc. said Monday it exceeded record industry expectations by selling more than 1 million songs since the launch of its online music store a week ago."], "neg": ["A man and woman walking hold each other.", "Do you believe that the Austrian model \"’ – namely bilateral majority decision-making - will in future an instrument to take decisions by ignoring the European institutions and start a new institution, or a new group, to get round the unanimity rule in the Council?", "Retail pricing for SMS 2003 with 10 device client access licenses is $1,219.", "A cat addresses the camera.", "A dog is driving a car."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Oracle Corp's Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison didn't rule out sweetening the company's unsolicited offer to acquire rival PeopleSoft Inc.", "pos": ["Oracle chairman Larry Ellison has hinted that the company could yet again increase its offer for rival PeopleSoft."], "neg": ["\"The figures are becoming catastrophic,\" said Dr. Patrick Pelloux, the president of the association of emergency room physicians.", "If draining the ponds in Maryland will further help establish Steve's innocence, we welcome it.\"", "International rescue workers hacked desperately through flattened debris for survivors and cemeteries overflowed in Iran's ancient Silk Road city of Bam yesterday.", "On Monday, China said nine more people had died from SARS and that 160 more were infected with the virus.", "A woman is shooting a gun."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Portuguese weather service said Europe's heatwave was caused by a mass of hot, dry air moving from the southeast.", "pos": ["The heatwave was due to a mass of hot, dry air from the southeast, said Mario Almeida of Portugal's weather service."], "neg": ["The aim of the annual review is to identify such potential improvements.", "The man is slicing a potato.", "Racers are running down a track.", "\"What is happening here is that people who have opposed this action throughout are trying to find fresh reasons why it was not the right thing to do.\"", "\"The recent turnaround in the stock market and an easing in unemployment claims should keep consumer expectations at current levels and may signal more favorable economic times ahead.\""], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Still, the \"somewhat ambiguous ruling\" might be a setback for Static Control depending on how it developed its competing product, Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich said.", "pos": ["But Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich said the \"somewhat ambiguous ruling\" by regulators might be a setback for Static Control depending on how it developed its competing product."], "neg": ["Firstly, simplification and clarification of the Treaties.", "Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement at all than a poor one and it is true that, in this instance, the American proposal was a third-rate proposal, and one which was completely unacceptable to Europe.", "Given these realities, the need for greater involvement and greater efficiency in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment is essential.", "As a matter of urgency, therefore, the staff complement of the Interdepartmental Group attached to the Commission Secretariat should be strengthened at the earliest possible opportunity in order to ensure that all proposals for acts which are general in scope are accompanied, when considered by the College of Commissioners and on the basis of Article 299(2), by a simplified sheet outlining their potential impact.", "Harry Potter's latest wizard trick?"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The monkeys could track their progress by watching a schematic representation of the arm and its motions on a video screen.", "pos": ["The arm was kept in a separate room, but the monkeys could track their progress by watching a representation of the arm and its motions on a video screen."], "neg": ["a group of people dancing", "A man is mooing.", "A woman is cutting shrimps.", "You do not even want to incorporate into the Treaty, which proves that this text should be put to one side.", "A man is singing and playing a guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That triggered a 47-hour police standoff that inconvenienced thousands of commuters, as traffic backed up in Downtown Washington and northern Virginia.", "pos": ["His protest led to a 47-hour standoff with police that caused huge traffic jams in downtown Washington and northern Virginia."], "neg": ["The monkey is hanging from the trees.", "A man is playing a guitar.", "Jim Williams, director of the US-VISIT project, said that by the middle of November, inspectors will be fingerprinting and photographing many foreign passengers arriving in Atlanta.", "Tail wagging, Abbey trotted on stage with Conway before a crowd of more than 10,000 attendees at PeopleSoft's annual customer conference at the Anaheim Convention Center.", "A woman puts chopped eggplant into a skillet."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Standard & Poor's 500 index advanced 6.48, or 0.7 per cent, to 990.51.", "pos": ["The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX rose 6.48 points, or 0.66 percent, to 990.51."], "neg": ["Women are dancing.", "A man is dancing.", "Do you think that the “Austrian” model - namely decision making majority bilateral - will in the future constitute an instrument making it possible to make decisions by being unaware of the European institutions and to found a new institution, or a new group, to be able to circumvent the rule of unanimity within the Council?", "The lesson that must keep this Assembly in its debate of this morning is that we are forced to conclude that the maritime laws are, all over the world, in a State of mess, and that we should get down to the task to put in order.", "\"Enron company executives engaged in widespread and pervasive fraud to manipulate the company's earnings results,\" Buell said."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Complicating the situation is the presence of battle-hardened Liberians who have been fighting on both sides.", "pos": ["Fighting has continued sporadically in the west, where it is complicated by the presence of battle-hardened Liberians on both sides."], "neg": ["There is, of course, one crucial event, namely that a start has been made with category four and with looking at ways how we will deal with it, but it is not yet entirely clear whether we have managed to resolve this, partly because the Council refuses to have sufficient input in the attendant thought processes.", "Florida's Supreme Court has twice refused to hear the case.", "Women swimmers are diving in from the starting platform.", "Last Thursday, the RIAA sent a stiff copyright warning to Penn State's department of astronomy and astrophysics.", "Firstly, that of a simplification and clarification of the Treaties."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Doctors have speculated that the body’s own estrogen protects against cell damage and improves blood flow.", "pos": ["Their belief was based on speculation that estrogen prevents cell damage and improves blood flow."], "neg": ["It is gratifying that Parliament has succeeded in producing a large majority in favour of more openness.", "The two dogs were in the pen.", "A woman is playing a guitar on streets.", "In Feira, he has recognised the quality of potential candidates for accession to the countries participating in the stabilisation and association process.", "The 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey released Wednesday by Statistics Canada says living standards have improved but still lag for the Inuit and those who leave their often impoverished reserves."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Cisco executives said they were encouraged by $1.3 billion in cash flow and the increase in net income, but hoped for a rebound.", "pos": ["Cisco executives were encouraged by $1.3 billion in cash flow and the increase in net income, but said they remained ``cautiously optimistic'' about a rebound."], "neg": ["He will stand trial on 8 January on charges of having attended a meeting of the Tunisian opposition in France, which he denies.", "A dog is driving a car.", "The 30-year bond <US30YT=RR> firmed 24/32, taking its yield to 4.18 percent, after hitting another record low of 4.16 percent.", "They will continue to put pressure on the money they gain the distribution beyond the bounds of the 150 grams enables them to strengthen their position.", "Women models are walking down a catwalk."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "In an E-mail statement to the Knoxville News Sentinel, Shumaker said, ''I am not giving any consideration to resignation.", "pos": ["I am not giving any consideration to resignation,\" Shumaker said in a statement."], "neg": ["Those who stand apart from reinforced cooperation are really being given the same freedom as the back seat passengers in a car.", "Several shots rang out in the darkness, but only one gator had been killed by 11 p.m.", "Spokesmen for the FBI, CIA, Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Royal Canadian Mounted Police declined to comment on El Shukrijumah's stay in Canada.", "Those talks have not taken place, according to an Oracle spokeswoman.", "All those who are at present engaged in illicit work would obtain work with decent social conditions."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A poll showed that the FBI bugging of the mayor had given a boost to his reelection effort against GOP opponent Sam Katz.", "pos": ["A poll released this week showed that the FBI bugging of the mayor has given a boost to his re-election effort."], "neg": ["They underwent more tests over the weekend, and are now warded at Raffles Hospital.", "A person uses a blowtorch on two cameras.", "The defense cannot appeal Roush's ruling until after the trial.", "A person is peeling shrimp.", "Several thousand 3rd Infantry troops, including the 3rd Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Benning in Columbus, began returning last week."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Sobig.F spreads when unsuspecting computer users open file attachments in emails that contain such familiar headings as \"Thank You!,\" \"Re: Details\" or \"Re: That Movie.\"", "pos": ["The virus spreads when unsuspecting computer users open file attachments in emails that contain familiar headings like \"Thank You!\" and \"Re: Details\"."], "neg": ["Nations like Israel and Australia already have such status.", "The recent incidents against the Greek minority of Himara more imperative the need to promote measures of democratisation, strengthening of the institutions and respect for human rights in Albania.", "That is what we have done: we have avoided a budgetary crisis by going to Article 272; the financial perspective has been maintained, even though we have used the flexibility instrument.", "Thirdly: the acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the various countries and for the EU as a whole depend - the example of Denmark is here to show this - largely to the elimination of social and democratic deficits in European policy.", "It is a shame when they believe that the European Union presents itself as the champion of the modernisation of the life!"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Along with chipmaker Intel, the companies include Sony Corp., Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Gateway Inc. and Nokia Corp.", "pos": ["Along with chip maker Intel, the companies include Sony, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, International Business Machines, Gateway, Nokia and others."], "neg": ["Thank you very much, Commissioner.", "For the 12-month period ending June 30, high-speed lines installed in homes and businesses increased by 45 percent.", "He urged Congress to \"send me the final bill as soon as possible so that I can sign it into law.\"", "We have heard that the first and then the inequality of opportunity.", "In Feira, he recognised the quality of potential candidates for accession to the countries participating in the stabilisation and association process."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Gainer said the two staff aides are \"very sorry this all happened,\" and the security personnel had performed \"well within standards.\"", "pos": ["The security personnel performed ``well within standards'' and the two staff aides were ``very sorry all this happened,'' Gainer said."], "neg": ["I know that in France, the principle of slaughter of whole herd has been implemented and that this is not the best way to combat this phenomenon.", "The safeguard of the universal service using compensation funds which would make it possible to engage of the private profits to the profit of the public service will probably make failure.", "Charles Cullen, 43, was transferred from the Somerset County Jail in Somerville to the Anne Klein Forensic Center, a 150-bed psychiatric treatment facility in Trenton.", "A man jumps into a wall.", "That is what we have done: we have avoided a budgetary crisis by returning to Article 272; the financial perspective has been maintained, even if we have used the flexibility instrument."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Griffith, a Mount Airy native, now lives on the North Carolina coast in Manteo.", "pos": ["Griffith, 77, grew up in Mount Airy and now lives in Manteo."], "neg": ["A man is peeling a potato.", "If employment is the political priority of the Union, the fishing industry, as the economic sector, cannot remain on the sidelines.", "Someone is peeling a potato.", "By withdrawing our resolution, I express however the conviction that our Parliament would have better done to hear its voice while devoting, for Conseil of Nice, a resolution specific and distinct with the so important and so difficult topics to the intergovernmental Conference, rather than to treat them within the framework of one only resolution also including all the other points of about an agenda of the Council.", "A woman is swimming."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Conference Board reported its U.S. Consumer Confidence Index slipped to 83.5 in June from 83.6 in May.", "pos": ["The consumer-confidence index came in at 83.5 in June, down slightly from a revised 83.6 in May, the Conference Board said."], "neg": ["Tatar was being held without bail in Armstrong County Prison today.", "A man is dancing on the ceiling of a room.", "The injured passenger at John Peter Smith died later in the morning; his name has not been released, Jones said.", "Spain has developed a remarkably positive way the difficult neighbourhood that has always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "The very worst situation is when the women concerned also come from distant countries, having taken the work on out of desperation because they have no other way of continuing to provide for themselves."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "He also recruited others to participate in the scheme by convincing them to receive fraudulently obtained merchandise he had ordered for himself.", "pos": ["He also recruited other people to take delivery of fraudulently obtained merchandise he had ordered."], "neg": ["We have started to exchange ideas on this question, from which it has emerged that all the Member States want to maintain this ceiling after enlargement.", "A man is playing a guitar.", "The dog is barking at the toy.", "This is a vague area, and it is possible that more restrictive provisions may also remain in force, and this is one point in respect of which we have tabled amendments.", "A man plays the keyboard with his nose."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Now, with the agency's last three shuttles grounded in the wake of the Columbia disaster, that wait could be even longer.", "pos": ["With the remaining three shuttles grounded in the wake of the Columbia accident, the rookies will have to wait even longer."], "neg": ["A man is playing a guitar.", "A woman is slicing carrot.", "Schofield got Toepfer to admit on cross-examination that she ignored many of O'Donnell's suggestions and projects.", "A key figure in former state Treasurer Paul Silvester's bribery scheme was accused Wednesday of changing his story about Silvester's alleged corrupt dealings with a Boston investment firm.", "We need to know today, since we are always in uncertainty, what are the scientific data, what measures are to be taken."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "An arrest warrant claimed Bryant assaulted the woman June 30 at a hotel.", "pos": ["According to an arrest warrant, Bryant, 24, attacked a woman on June 30."], "neg": ["Reiterating the calls made by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000, what initiatives does the Presidency of the European Council propose to take with a view to playing a more active role so as to guarantee the full and complete application of the UN peace plan?", "Finally, and this is a more controversial subject, the Commission to make use of the procedure for the implementation of this legislation.", "A man dives into a swimming pool.", "A person is performing tricks on a motorcycle.", "On the contrary, the influence of the national democracies decreases by limit always more the right of veto and to give always more capacity to the Parliament of the EU."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Those conversations had not taken place as of Tuesday night, according to an Oracle spokeswoman.", "pos": ["Those talks have not taken place, according to an Oracle spokeswoman."], "neg": ["Its former chief Mickey Robinson was fired for cause when he left in September, the company said.", "\"We've put a lot of effort and energy into improving our patching progress, probably later than we should have.", "A woman is playing the flute.", "On Tuesday, the central bank left interest rates steady, as expected, but also declared that overall risks were weighted toward weakness and warned of deflation risks.", "The cat played with a watermelon."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Albertsons and Kroger's Ralphs chain locked out their workers in response.", "pos": ["Kroger's Ralphs chain and Albertsons immediately locked out their grocery workers in a show of solidarity."], "neg": ["Thus, it is urgent that the inter-service group staff should be strengthened very quickly at the heart of the General Secretariat of the Commission, so that all proposals to act of general scope can be accompanied, during their examination by the college on the basis of Article 299(2), a detailed impact statement.", "I find it rather odd that people are already trying to tie the Commission's hands in relation to the proposal for a directive, while at the same calling on it to present a Green Paper on the current situation with regard to optional and supplementary health insurance schemes.", "Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday that contacts with Iran would continue.", "And I am telling you loud and clear: Kostunica must be given his chance here and I therefore hope that he will give amnesty in the next couple of weeks or months, but meanwhile, I do want the introduction of those two new budget lines, democratisation and reconstruction, to be accompanied by political conditions, both from a political and budgetary perspective.", "Micron's numbers also marked the first quarterly profit in three years for the DRAM manufacturer."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On health care, the NDP says there will be no privatization and no health-care premiums.", "pos": ["The New Democrats also renewed their commitment to no health-care privatization and no premiums."], "neg": ["\"We hope all parties will continue to make efforts and continue the process of dialogue,\" the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement.", "Madam President, I would ask you, on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries and on my own behalf, to send a message of condolence from Parliament to the families of the victims and the local authorities of both Brittany and Marín, city of Galicia, which most of the victims.", "Trouble flared when at least four North Korean reporters rushed from the Taegu media centre to confront a dozen activists protesting against human rights abuses in the North.", "The Pentagon had hoped to retain control of the postwar effort, so the decision was seen by some insiders as a victory for Powell and the State Department.", "The jury awarded TVT about $23 million in compensatory damages and roughly $108 million in punitive damages."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Knight agreed to a two-year, $2.38 million contract that included a $300,000 signing bonus.", "pos": ["ESPN reported that Knight's two-year deal is worth $2.38 million, including a $300,000 signing bonus."], "neg": ["A woman peels a potato.", "A man plays the guitar and sings.", "Finally, I welcome the idea of giving us an annual meeting in order to make an assessment of the implementation of the programme.", "The man is playing the guitar.", "A woman is talking on a telephone."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The procedure is generally performed in the second or third trimester.", "pos": ["The technique is used during the second and, occasionally, third trimester of pregnancy."], "neg": ["\"I have the opportunity to congratulate the governor-elect of the great state of California, and I'm looking forward to it.\"", "The Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DJ: news, chart, profile) rose 56 points, or 0.7 percent, to 8,588.", "Undoubtedly, was it not to have an agreement better than to have an agreement which is bad and, in this case, the American proposal was a proposal with the reduction, completely unacceptable for Europe.", "The labelling of beef which has been decided, which is a minimum labelling and which has only been in force for two and a half months, does not make it possible to properly remind the origin of the animals and we banned very late specified risk material.", "\"I marched in the streets against Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War,\" she said."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Tail wagging, Abbey trotted on stage with Conway before a crowd of more than 10,000 attendees at PeopleSoft's annual customer conference at the Anaheim Convention Center.", "pos": ["On Monday, Abbey trotted on stage, tail wagging, with Conway before a crowd of 10,000 attendees at PeopleSoft's annual customer conference."], "neg": ["Swimmers are racing in a lake.", "A cat is rubbing against a baby.", "Yesterday, the Concorde seemed to launch itself straight out of the rising sun.", "While the day's trading was lackluster, the Standard & Poor's 500 index was preparing to close out its best three-month period since the fourth quarter of 1998.", "\"Spending taxpayer dollars to create terrorism betting parlors is as wasteful as it is repugnant,\" they announced at a press conference yesterday."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "At midnight on Wednesday, 68 percent of voters said \"no\" to the tax, with 97 percent of the votes counted.", "pos": ["With 97 percent of precincts counted tonight, 68 percent of voters opposed the tax."], "neg": ["A man is cutting a boot with a sword.", "A woman is slicing a carrot.", "This rule can be applied equally to all recreational but dangerous drugs when no one but the person consuming the drug is likely to be affected.", "\"This has been a persistent problem that has not been solved,\" investigation board member Steven Wallace said.", "There has been a budget heading for the funding of mine clearance and prevention programmes for many years now."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The blaze then spread to several surrounding structures on the property and destroyed them.", "pos": ["The fire spread to several surrounding structures on the property and destroyed them as deputies held back firefighters."], "neg": ["A tiger attacks a man.", "This is why I also think that this reconciliation can hold. However, the government, which very courageously found a solution with the question of the universities and many other problems, needs visible signs of the success as well as strong support, under penalty of seeing the peace threatened as a whole of the area.", "When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to apply the precautionary principle.", "The deer jumped over the fence.", "The only instance in which no tax is levied is when the supplier is in a non-EU country and the recipient is in a Member State of the EU."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The rapper's lawyer, Mark Gann, didn't return calls for comment.", "pos": ["The 27-year-old rapper's attorney in the civil matter, Mark Gann, did not return calls for comment."], "neg": ["We have started to exchange ideas on this question, from which it has emerged that all the Member States want to maintain this ceiling after enlargement.", "The woman is pouring oil into the pan.", "Two boys are talking on the phone.", "A boy is playing piano and singing.", "The man is eating cereal."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Also weighing on the market was news that General Motors GM.N planned to issue $10 billion in debt, in part to plug a hole in its pension plan.", "pos": ["Also hurting was news General Motors GM.N was to issue $10 billion in debt, in part to plug a hole in its pension plan."], "neg": ["Licensing revenue slid 21 percent, however, to $107.6 million.", "The comedic mimes performed on stage.", "Just as the Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe also has a solid experience in terms of such forms of control. We can to base.", "I stress this point because the market cannot regulate everything, which is why competition is not completely unrestricted, nor should it be.", "Let us, as a Europe of 15 Member States, organise ourselves in order to be able to welcome those countries who are knocking at the door into the fold under respectable conditions."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Licensing revenue slid 21 percent, however, to $107.6 million.", "pos": ["License sales, a key measure of demand, fell 21 percent to $107.6 million."], "neg": ["The U.S. women, who are defending champions, will play on Sept. 25 in Philadelphia and conclude group competition on Sept. 28 in Columbus, Ohio.", "A man is dancing on the ceiling of a room.", "Unfortunately the final objective of a European Constitution would be exactly the opposite and of course we cannot agree.", "The supermarket chains have used managers and replacement workers to keep their stores open, often at reduced hours.", "Republicans had pledged to complete a Medicare drug package by August, then extended the deadline to Oct. 17, and they are still working on it."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "When fully operational, the facility is expected to employ up to 1,000 people.", "pos": ["The plant would employ 1,000 people when fully built out, the company said."], "neg": ["I think we made the right case and did the right thing.\"", "The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was down 1.55 points, or 0.09 percent, at 1,744.91.", "Fighting has continued sporadically in the west, where it is complicated by the presence of battle-hardened Liberians on both sides.", "We have started to exchange ideas on this question, from which it has emerged that all the Member States want to maintain this ceiling after enlargement.", "A baby elephant is eating."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "\"Tomorrow at the Mission Inn, I have the opportunity to congratulate the governor-elect of the great state of California.", "pos": ["\"I have the opportunity to congratulate the governor-elect of the great state of California, and I'm looking forward to it.\""], "neg": ["Jim Wolfcale, the jury foreman and a minister, said, \"This case was both mentally challenging and emotionally exhausting.\"", "Both the House and Senate bills would end the ban on research and development of low-yield nuclear weapons.", "A woman is slicing a potato.", "The recent incidents against the Greek minority in Himara make more imperative that measures to promote democratisation, strengthening the institutions and respect for human rights in Albania.", "Indeed, it is not absolutely certain that the definition of fair price which is better than another, because the definitions used in the Member States in all amply sufficient."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "\"I expect Japan to keep conducting intervention, but the volume is likely to fall sharply,\" said Junya Tanase, forex strategist at JP Morgan Chase.", "pos": ["Junya Tanase, forex strategist at JP Morgan Chase, said \"I expect Japan to keep conducting intervention, but the volume is likely to fall sharply.\""], "neg": ["A woman is adding ingredients to a bowl.", "A man is performing tricks with a soccer ball.", "A big turtle is walking.", "A woman cuts up a vegetable.", "question nº 6 of (H-0886/00):"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Agents found more than 1,000 credit cards and credit card duplicating machines during a search of Ragin's address.", "pos": ["When Ragin's address was raided, authorities found more than 1,000 credit cards and duplicating machines."], "neg": ["If we define a clear, binding framework for the Member States, then there should be a longer evaluation period for the various support systems required to satisfy these requirements.", "A man is playing a guitar.", "We have started to exchange ideas on this question, from which it has emerged that all the Member States want to maintain this ceiling after enlargement.", "People who once thought their blood pressure was fine actually may be well on their way to hypertension under new U.S. guidelines published on Wednesday.", "Another person, a man from Fort Worth, Texas, also was missing."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The WiFi potties were to be unveiled this summer, at music festivals in Britain.", "pos": ["The world's first portal potty was soon to be rolled out at summer festivals in Great Britain."], "neg": ["The lesson that must retain this House in her this morning's debate is that we are forced to conclude that the laws are maritime, throughout the world, in a state of mess, and that we must set about the task of them to bring order.", "A baby is talking.", "Now, with the agency's last three shuttles grounded in the wake of the Columbia disaster, that wait could be even longer.", "I stress this point because the market cannot regulate everything and that, in this context, it is not or cannot be competitive without borders.", "Gonzales was found guilty of using excessive force by spraying Olvera with pepper spray."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "MEN who drink tea, particularly green tea, can greatly reduce their risk of prostate cancer, a landmark WA study has found.", "pos": ["DRINKING green tea can dramatically reduce the risk of men contracting prostate cancer, a study by Australian researchers has discovered."], "neg": ["The world's first portal potty was soon to be rolled out at summer festivals in Great Britain.", "Emily Church is London bureau chief of CBS.MarketWatch.com.", "A car backs out of a space.", "(Parliament accepted the oral amendment)", "From the top of the embankment, Moriarty thought, \"He'll be swept over any minute or just die of the cold.\""], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Forecasters said warnings might go up for Cuba later Thursday.", "pos": ["Watches or warnings could be issued for eastern Cuba later on Thursday."], "neg": ["The ingredients of such a polypill would contain aspirin, a cholesterol-lowering statin, three blood pressure-lowering agents in half dose, and folic acid.", "A person is peeling a potato.", "A dog is driving a car.", "A little girl peddling a scooter.", "A woman is slicing a red pepper."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. Annika Sorenstam drew the crowds, Michelle Wie got the publicity but Angela Stanford took her first LPGA victory.", "pos": ["GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. >> Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie drew the crowds, but Angela Stanford took her first LPGA victory."], "neg": ["This is our priority fight in order to ensure that the affirmation of fundamental rights is put into practice in our political decisions.", "The maintenance of the universal service means of a compensation fund which could initiate private profits for the benefit of the public service will probably deal fire.", "The benchmark 10-year Treasury note yield <US10YT=RR> dipped below 4.20 percent on Tuesday.", "A woman is chopping an onion.", "A white cat perched on a small wooden cabinet is looking outside the window."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The new policy gives greatest weight to grades, test scores and a student's high school curriculum.", "pos": ["Academic achievement -- including grades, test scores and high school curriculum -- are given the highest priority."], "neg": ["The resolution on the Nice Summit, which has just been adopted, does not reflect.", "A woman is playing guitar.", "That was the biggest drop since August 1993 and stemmed from falling prices for cars, trucks, men's and boys' clothes and cigarettes.", "This rule can be applied equally to all recreational but dangerous drugs when no one but the person consuming the drug is likely to be affected.", "A woman is squeezing some cucumber slices."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The new version, W32/Sobig.C-mm, had already reached a \"high level\" outbreak status by Monday, according to security analysts.", "pos": ["Security analysts said the new version, W32/Sobig.C-mm, had already reached a \"high level\" outbreak status by mid-afternoon on Monday."], "neg": ["A man is dancing.", "Clearly, explanations are necessary for the increased incidence of BSE, not only in France but also in other Member States.", "Im very proud of the citizens of this state, said Gov. John Baldacci, a casino foe.", "A man is eating a bowl of cereal.", "The man added seasoning to water in a bowl."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "From the start, however, the United States' declared goal was not just to topple Saddam but to stabilize Iraq and install a friendly government.", "pos": ["But the United States' ultimate goal was not just to topple Mr. Hussein but to stabilize the country and install a friendly government."], "neg": ["McGill also detailed the hole that had been cut in the Caprice's trunk.", "But at age 15, she had reached 260 pounds and a difficult decision: It was time to try surgery.", "Someone is playing a piano.", "Elecia Battle dropped her purse after buying the Mega Millions Lottery ticket last week and believes the ticket blew away.", "A man is doing exercise."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "AFTRA members approved the merger by a vote of 75.88% to 24.12%.", "pos": ["AFTRA, on the other hand, approved the merger by a whopping 75 percent."], "neg": ["A girl is putting gel in her hair.", "Samudra not present in Bangkok, the indictment said, but attended a series of meetings before the attacks, recruiting fellow bombers and coordinating the operation.", "The recent incidents against the Greek imperative more the need to promote measures, of strengthening the institutions and the respect of human rights in Albania.", "A bird is bathing in a sink.", "Two convicted killers and another inmate escaped from a state prison on a busy street Wednesday by cutting through a fence, a Corrections Department official said."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "While some other parts of Africa have been used as staging grounds for the terror group, Malawi previously had not been a major focus of investigations into al-Qaida.", "pos": ["While some other parts of Africa have been used as Al Qaeda staging grounds, Malawi had previously not been a major focus of investigations into the group."], "neg": ["The right to a government to remove arbitrarily its Constitution is the defining characteristic of a tyranny.", "The labelling of beef that was agreed on, which is a minimum form of labelling and only came into force two and a half months ago, does not make it possible for the origin of animals to be adequately traced, and we were very slow to ban specified risk materials.", "As a matter of urgency, therefore, the staff complement of the Interdepartmental Group attached to the Commission Secretariat should be strengthened at the earliest possible opportunity in order to ensure that all proposals for acts which are general in scope are accompanied, when considered by the College of Commissioners and on the basis of Article 299(2), by a simplified sheet outlining their potential impact.", "(Applause)", "Oracle Corp's Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison didn't rule out sweetening the company's unsolicited offer to acquire rival PeopleSoft Inc."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Wells’ other series include NBC’s ER and Third Watch.", "pos": ["Wells' other series include NBC's \"ER\" and \"Third Watch.\""], "neg": ["In the second quarter, consumer advertisers continued to spend the most online, slightly increasing their share.", "The euro has slipped nearly four percent since matching a record peak of around $1.1935 only last week and hitting an all-time high of 140.90 yen in late May.", "Either we are part of the club, we are not and we must, therefore, we have to comply with this.", "A dog is barking.", "Prairie dogs are believed to have become infected in a pet shop through a Gambian rat imported from Africa."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Shares of Corixa fell 12 cents to $6.88 on the Nasdaq stock market.", "pos": ["Corixa's stock barely flinched on the news, dipping 12 cents to close at $6.88."], "neg": ["Someoen is cooking onions.", "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "A man is standing in the rain.", "Two kids push an inflatable crocodile around in a pool.", "A solenodon is walking along the ground."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Republicans had pledged to complete a Medicare drug package by August, then extended the deadline to Oct. 17, and they are still working on it.", "pos": ["Republicans had pledged to complete a Medicare drug package by August, then extended it to Oct. 17."], "neg": ["The matter could then be sent to the U.N. Security Council.", "Chiron and Aventis Pasteur together made about 80 million doses, ordinarily enough for U.S. demand, The Associated Press reported.", "A woman is slipping in the water-tub.", "The man is playing the keyboards.", "The arm was kept in a separate room, but the monkeys could track their progress by watching a representation of the arm and its motions on a video screen."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Supermarket chains facing a possible grocery clerk strike this week accused union leaders Monday of breaking off contract talks prematurely over the weekend.", "pos": ["Supermarket chains are accusing union leaders of breaking off contract talks prematurely over the weekend as grocery clerks gear up for a possible strike."], "neg": ["The labelling of beef that was agreed on, which is a minimum form of labelling and only came into force two and a half months ago, does not make it possible for the origin of animals to be adequately traced, and we were very slow to ban specified risk materials.", "A woman feeds an animal by hand.", "A man is delivering a lecture at an event celebrating the game of cricket.", "Given this situation, there is an inescapable need for greater involvement and greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment.", "A man and woman are riding a motorcycle."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "He was referring to John S. Reed, the former Citicorp chief executive who became interim chairman and chief executive of the exchange last Sunday .", "pos": ["Next week, John S. Reed, the former Citicorp chief executive who Sunday became interim chairman and chief executive of the exchange, will take up his position."], "neg": ["For this cooperation, for your support and for your kind welcome, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the French Presidency thank you.", "At 12 months there was still a difference in function, although it was not a significant one.", "The resolution on Nice, voted today, does not reflect this.", "A poll showed that the FBI bugging of the mayor had given a boost to his reelection effort against GOP opponent Sam Katz.", "A girl is putting on makeup."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Bush plans to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the new Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, in the Jordanian port of Aqaba on Wednesday.", "pos": ["On Wednesday next week, Mr Bush will meet Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Aqaba, Jordan."], "neg": ["Dewhurst's proposal calls for an abrupt end to the controversial \"Robin Hood\" plan for school finance.", "A woman is riding a horse.", "It's the National Audubon Society's annual Christmas Bird Count, now in its 104th season.", "\"The concrete barriers (between lanes) were being tossed around like feathers.\"", "I know that in France they have had whole herd slaughter and this does not seem to be the best way forward."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "\"If you pass this bill, Big Brother will be watching you,\" said Rep. John Mabry, D-Waco.", "pos": ["\"If you pass this bill,\" Rep. John Mabry Jr., D-Waco, told colleagues, \"Big Brother will be watching you.\""], "neg": ["A man is dancing.", "McGill also detailed the hole that had been cut in the Caprice's trunk.", "This is also the position advocated by the rapporteur, and it is shared by the European People' s Party.", "Slovakia is not to remain in the second Group and it is logical that it wants to join the Union at the same time that the Czech Republic.", "Jim Williams, director of the US-VISIT project, said that by the middle of November, many arriving passengers in Atlanta will be fingerprinted and photographed."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Several states and the federal government later passed similar or more strict bans.", "pos": ["Following California's lead, several states and the federal government passed similar or tougher bans."], "neg": ["The person is removing the scales from the fish.", "From the first discussions on this dossier, which were held at European level at the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission has given a commitment to the Member States to pursue a course of action designed to develop what we might call a European police culture, grounded in the highest standards of duty, respect for the rights and freedoms of our citizens and efficiency in the fight against crime.", "A man is dancing upside-down on the ceiling.", "A baby is laughing.", "I stress this point because the market cannot regulate everything, which is why competition is not completely unrestricted, nor should it be."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Still, he noted Miami must decide whether to seek ACC membership for the next school year by June 30 to adhere to Big East guidelines.", "pos": ["Still, he noted that Miami must decide whether to seek A.C.C. membership by June 30 to adhere to Big East guidelines."], "neg": ["This year the Audubon Society once again hosts its annual Christmas Bird Count.", "National Breast Cancer Centre chief executive Professor Christine Ewan said it was too early to quantify the risk to women.", "Ms. Cripps-Prawak left last Friday, two days after the department introduced a plan to distribute medical marijuana through doctors' offices.", "The man danced in the diner.", "Samudra, 32, is suspected of being a key figure in the al-Qaida-linked terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, which has been blamed for carrying out the bombings."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Revenues for \"The Hulk\" came in well below those of last month's Marvel Comics adaptation, \"X2: X-Men United,\" which grossed $85.6 million in its opening weekend.", "pos": ["The Hulk trailed last month's Marvel Comics adaptation, X2: X-Men United, which grossed $85.6-million in its opening weekend."], "neg": ["The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> was 0.46 points lower, or 0.05 percent, at 997.02.", "Fujitsu Siemens Computers on Tuesday made good on a promise to offer a workstation based on Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor.", "- (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and unified European continent.", "He said the attackers left behind leaflets urging staff at the Ishtar Sheraton to stop working at the hotel and demanding U.S. forces leave Iraq.", "The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC rose 17.26 points, or 1.06 percent, to 1,640.06, based on the latest data."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The MDC called the strike to force Mr Mugabe to either resign or negotiate a settlement of the Zimbabwe crisis.", "pos": ["The MDC called the week-long protest to urge Mugabe either to resign or to negotiate a settlement of the crisis gripping the country."], "neg": ["We are pleased with proposed arrangements in this respect by the committee preparatory and decided by the General Assembly with regard to the mode of accreditation of the governmental organizations, with the preparatory process and the extraordinary session of September 2001.", "A boy rode his bike on top of a metal fence.", "The dog played with a bug on the carpet.", "A baby elephant is eating.", "Mr President, we took a great deal of care over preparing the Karamanou report in the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled that an Ohio law banning a controversial late-term abortion method passes constitutional muster and the state can enforce it.", "pos": ["An Ohio law that bans a controversial late-term abortion procedure is constitutionally acceptable and the state can enforce it, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday."], "neg": ["Bashir felt he was being tried by opinion not on the facts, Mahendradatta told Reuters.", "The other point of view, illustrated by the initial aim of the rapporteur and shared by many colleagues, is to promote the regulations and codes of conduct necessary to establish, between insurers, the forms of cost option guaranteeing all the supply of good quality of care and to counter the risks of discriminatory practices and a selection of risks and customers.", "Two people are riding a motorcycle.", "Knowledge of foreign languages is accepted as a necessary precursor to mobility.", "France Telecom shares dropped 3.6 percent while Orange surged 13 percent."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "In January 2000, notebooks represented less than 25 percent of sales volume.", "pos": ["That compares with January 2000, when laptops represented less than 25 percent of sales volume, NPD said."], "neg": ["A woman is cutting an onion.", "A man is feeding a mice to a snake.", "The boy cut the grass by the curb with scissors.", "A woman is dancing.", "Two roosters are fighting."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "She had only a single condition, that the book not be published until her death.", "pos": ["She insisted, though, that it not be published until after her death."], "neg": ["A man is playing a flute.", "The things worsen when it is question of women of distant countries who accepted this work by need and who do not have any other possibility to continue to provide for their vital needs.", "A man opens a can and pours the contents into a bowl.", "Argentine Guillermo Coria and Netherlander Martin Verkerk are in the other half.", "First of all, the simplification and clarification of the Treaties."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "But the inadequate performance of students in various subgroups tagged the state as deficient under the federal No Child Left Behind act.", "pos": ["But the inadequate performance of students in various subgroups, such as race, pushed the state onto the needs-improvement list under the federal No Child Left Behind Act."], "neg": ["The man is slicing a potato.", "Russin did not comment; his lawyer did not attend the hearing and did not return phone messages.", "A man is playing a piano.", "A man is riding a mechanical bull.", "The woman is riding a horse."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The upcoming second-quarter earnings season will be particularly important in offering investors guidance, they say.", "pos": ["They say second-quarter earnings reports will be key in giving investors that guidance."], "neg": ["If we define a clear, binding framework for the Member States, then there should be a longer evaluation period for the various support systems required to satisfy these requirements.", "We will speak with one voice grace within the WTO.", "John Hickenlooper had 65 percent of the vote to 35 percent for City Auditor Don Mares.", "A cat is drinking milk.", "Since 1996, the European Parliament had decided in favour of a prohibition of the use of the bone meals in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle - so only it had been listened to."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "In the latest violence, insurgents threw a bomb at a U.S. convoy in northern Baghdad, killing one soldier.", "pos": ["Early Monday, insurgents threw a homemade bomb at a U.S. convoy in northern Baghdad, killing an American soldier."], "neg": ["I call on Prague to respond to this signal, this challenge, this plea for dialogue, to grant our request and to ensure, together with our House, that this legacy of a nationalist era can be consigned to the past.", "I invite Prague to seize this sign, this invitation, this request for dialogue, to follow up and to ensure that, together with this House, these reliques an era nationalist may be abandoned.", "Primary Care Trusts and Mental Health Trusts have also been formally rated for the first time this year.", "The euro's rise against the yen and speculation of Japanese intervention helped the dollar firm to 117.25 yen , well above a 10-month low of 116 yen hit on Thursday.", "A man drives a car."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "AirTran officials and a Boeing official declined to comment yesterday.", "pos": ["Trish York, a spokeswoman for Boeing, declined to comment on the deal."], "neg": ["A person is stirring rice.", "Madam President, I ask you, on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries and on my own behalf, to send a message of condolence from Parliament to the families of the victims and the local authorities of both Brittany that Marín, city of Galicia, where are from most of the victims.", "A poll released this week showed that the FBI bugging of the mayor has given a boost to his re-election effort.", "Faced with these, the necessity of a greater involvement and greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and is essential.", "Do you think that the Austrian model, i.e. bilateral majority resolutions, will be used in future as a way of passing resolutions which bypass the European institutions and of forming a new institution or a new group in order to circumvent unanimity in the Council?"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The lawsuit names Shelley, a Democrat, and registrars in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.", "pos": ["The lawsuit named Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, a Democrat, and the registrars of voters in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties."], "neg": ["Mr Levine said she had been offered $400,000 to tell her story to an Australian TV network.", "Waksal, in a letter to the court, said: \"I tore my family apart.", "As there is still a lot of uncertainty, we must know what the scientific facts are and what action must be taken.", "The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 3.42 points, or 0.34 percent, to 1,007.84.", "There were 293 human cases of West Nile in Indiana in 2002, including 11 deaths statewide."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The case comes out of Illinois and involves a for-profit company called Telemarketing Associates Inc.", "pos": ["The case decided Monday centered around an Illinois fund-raiser, Telemarketing Associates."], "neg": ["A cartoon woman is diving off a board.", "The man is eating.", "It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union.", "The vulnerability exists in the way Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications checks document properties passed to it when a document is opened.", "ESPN reported that Knight's two-year deal is worth $2.38 million, including a $300,000 signing bonus."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "He urged Congress to \"send me the final bill as soon as possible so that I can sign it into law.\"", "pos": ["\"I urge Congress to quickly resolve any differences and send me the final bill as soon as possible so that I can sign it into law,\" he said."], "neg": ["The woman is dicing onions.", "A woman is playing a guitar.", "The Council of Europe, along with the Court of Human Rights, has a wealth of experience of such forms of supervision, and we can build on these.", "A man is scaling a fish.", "A man is dancing."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Yee is a 1990 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.", "pos": ["Yee grew up in the United States and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point."], "neg": ["The cradle for the h2200 has space for recharging a second battery.", "The bishop told police he thought he had hit a dog or a cat or that someone had thrown a rock at his vehicle.", "A man is making a bed.", "Negotiators said Friday they made progress during their latest round of free-trade negotiations between the United States and five Central American countries this week in Houston.", "School officials said Van-Vliet reported the accident using the bus’ radio."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "\"PNC regrets its involvement\" in the deals, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer James Rohr said in a statement.", "pos": ["James Rohr, chairman and chief executive officer, said PNC regretted the incident."], "neg": ["Bush plans to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the new Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, in the Jordanian port of Aqaba on Wednesday.", "The matter could then be sent to the U.N. Security Council.", "The McLean, Virginia-based company said newspaper revenue increased 5 percent to $1.46 billion.", "\"I am advised that certain allegations of criminal conduct have been interposed against my counsel, J. Michael Boxley,'' the Silver statement said. \"", "A cat is opening a drawer and climbing inside."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Colin Powell, the Secretary of State, said contacts with Iran would not stop.", "pos": ["Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday that contacts with Iran would continue."], "neg": ["The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was off 58.69 points, or 0.64 percent, at 9,137.86.", "A woman brushes some shrimp.", "By withdrawing our resolution, I am, however, convinced that Parliament would do better to devote its voice, in view of the Nice Council, a specific resolution separate and the extremely important subjects and difficult if the Intergovernmental Conference, rather than treating them within the framework of a single resolution including also all other items on the agenda of the Council.", "The European Council will also discuss the state of progress of the accession negotiations and hence of the enlargement.", "The very worst situation is when the women concerned also come from distant countries, having taken the work on out of desperation because they have no other way of continuing to provide for themselves."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The shooting victim was taken to Kings County Hospital Center, where he later died, the police said.", "pos": ["The victim, who was not identified, was taken to Kings County Hospital where he was pronounced dead."], "neg": ["Let us, as a Europe of 15 Member States, organise ourselves in order to be able to welcome those countries who are knocking at the door into the fold under respectable conditions.", "Slovakia has not been condemned to the second division and it is logical that it should like to join together with the Czech Republic.", "Mr President, in my speech I shall focus on the report by Mrs Lalumière, report that I think it is well thought-out and clearly formulated.", "After all, it is by no means certain that the proposed definition of equitable price is better than any other, because the various definitions that are currently in use in the Member States are all perfectly satisfactory.", "There has been a budget heading for the funding of mine clearance and prevention programmes for many years now."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "\"It was a final test before delivering the missile to the armed forces.", "pos": ["State radio said it was the last test before the missile was delivered to the armed forces."], "neg": ["But I would like to say to Parliament this afternoon that we should not lose sight of the fact that the EU spends just 1% of GDP and much of that is administered in the Member States.", "Peace Rules defeated Funny Cide in the Louisiana Derby.", "The mock explosion, the first event in the drill, occurred in a car in industrial south Seattle.", "Greek ship sank, without the least storm in exist, Mr Gayssot.", "The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 3.42 points, or 0.34 percent, to 1,007.84."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Deirdre Hisler, Government Canyon's manager, said the state has long had its eye on this piece of property and is eager to complete the deal to obtain it.", "pos": ["Deirdre Hisler, Government Canyon's manager, said the state long has coveted this piece of property, and is eager to complete the deal."], "neg": ["\"I have acknowledged that I behaved inappropriately,\" he said.", "They will keep the pressure on, and they are strengthening their position with the revenue they are generating from delivering mail above 150 grams.", "If we want to help Indonesia we must act now with money and deeds, not merely words.", "Spitz is expected to testify later for the defense.", "The proportion of people covered by employers dropped from 62.3 percent in 2001 to 61.3 percent last year."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Thanks to the euro's rise against the Japanese currency, the dollar was at 117.24 yen, well above the overnight 10-month low of 116 yen.", "pos": ["The euro's rise against the yen and speculation of Japanese intervention helped the dollar firm to 117.25 yen , well above a 10-month low of 116 yen hit on Thursday."], "neg": ["The debate is closed.", "\"I have the opportunity to congratulate the governor-elect of the great state of California, and I'm looking forward to it.\"", "A man is laying on the ground.", "We welcome the arrangements proposed in this respect by the Preparatory Committee and adopted by the General Assembly regarding procedures for the registration of non-governmental organisations for involvement in the preparatory process and the Special Session in September 2001.", "The resolution on Nice, voted today, does not reflect this."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Former South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Sunday he did not see what \"all the fuss\" was over appointing a gay bishop, but urged homosexual clergy to remain celibate.", "pos": ["South Africa's Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu says he does not understand all the fuss about appointing a gay bishop, but he has urged homosexual clergy to remain celibate."], "neg": ["A person is pouring olive oil into a pot on the stove.", "The resolution on Nice, voted today, does not reflect this.", "He said he also expects to have the support of lawmakers from other agricultural states.", "This led to the recovery of the 270-kilogram Cancuen altar, announced on Wednesday by the Vanderbilt University in Nashville and the National Geographic Society.", "The man took a piece of pepperoni pizza out of the box."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Russian stocks fell after the arrest last Saturday of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, chief executive of Yukos Oil, on charges of fraud and tax evasion.", "pos": ["The weekend arrest of Russia's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, chief executive of oil major YUKOS, on charges of fraud and tax evasion unnerved financial markets."], "neg": ["Its shares jumped to $54.50 in pre-open trading from $50.90 at Wednesday's close.", "Meningitis is an infection of the fluid in a person's spinal cord and around the brain.", "He and his colleagues attributed some of the communication gap to doctors feeling pressed for time.", "I find it rather odd that people are already trying to tie the Commission's hands in relation to the proposal for a directive, while at the same calling on it to present a Green Paper on the current situation with regard to optional and supplementary health insurance schemes.", "A man is sitting and playing a small guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Consumers would still have to get a descrambling security card from their cable operator to plug into the set.", "pos": ["To watch pay television, consumers would insert into the set a security card provided by their cable service."], "neg": ["A band is singing.", "The man is smashing garlic.", "Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda.", "Spansion Flash memory solutions are available worldwide from AMD and Fujitsu.", "A man is playing guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "He explained that he found Antetonitrus when he came to Wits in 2001 as a post-doctoral research assistant at England's University of Bristol.", "pos": ["He explained that he found antetonitrus when he came to Wits in 2001 while a post-doctoral research assistant at Bristol University in Britain."], "neg": ["Dealers said the single currency's downward momentum against the dollar could pick up speed if it broke below $1.15.", "His partner Bijan Darvish is charged with filing a false police report.", "The device plays Internet radio streams and comes with a 30-day trial of RealNetworks' Rhapsody music service.", "I also voted against a text which calls for the integration of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the future Treaty which will be adopted at Nice.", "A man is opening a package containing headphones."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Air Canada, the largest airline in Canada and No. 11 in the world, has been under court protection from creditors since April 1.", "pos": ["The No. 11 airline in the world, Air Canada has been under court protection from creditors since April 1."], "neg": ["The vulnerability exists in the way Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications checks document properties passed to it when a document is opened.", "Approval of the official report of the previous sitting", "A man is kicking pots of water.", "But they don't realize that until it's too late (of course) because they're potential victims.", "Wells' other series include NBC's \"ER\" and \"Third Watch.\""], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The jury also found Gonzales guilty of using excessive force by dousing Olvera-Carrera with pepper spray.", "pos": ["Gonzales was found guilty of using excessive force by spraying Olvera with pepper spray."], "neg": ["Earnings were 59 cents a share for the three months ended May 25 compared with 15 cents a share a year earlier.", "\"But HRT should not be used to prevent heart disease or any other chronic condition.\"", "He was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday night by police acting on a tip-off.", "A man breaks a bottle with a sword.", "And I am telling you loud and clear: Kostunica must be given his chance here and I therefore hope that he will give amnesty in the next couple of weeks or months, but meanwhile, I do want the introduction of those two new budget lines, democratisation and reconstruction, to be accompanied by political conditions, both from a political and budgetary perspective."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Garner said the self-proclaimed mayor of Baghdad, Mohammed Mohsen al-Zubaidi, was released after two days in coalition custody.", "pos": ["Garner said self-proclaimed Baghdad mayor Mohammed Mohsen Zubaidi was released 48 hours after his detention in late April."], "neg": ["They will not elect as president a Democrat who sounds an uncertain trumpet in these dangerous times.\"", "Bryant previously said that hike had a greater impact on demand than officials expected.", "A man dives into a swimming pool.", "A lion is trying to climb up over a wall.", "A man is cutting a potato."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Customers that pay the $1,219 entrance fee get SMS 2003 with 10 device client access licenses.", "pos": ["Retail pricing for SMS 2003 with 10 device client access licenses is $1,219."], "neg": ["Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda.", "A woman is boiling shrimp.", "Agriculture ministers from more than one hundred nations are expected to attend the three-day Ministerial Conference and Expo on Agricultural Science and Technology sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.", "Do you believe that the Austrian model \"’ – namely bilateral majority decision-making - will in future an instrument to take decisions by ignoring the European institutions and start a new institution, or a new group, to get round the unanimity rule in the Council?", "Mr President, I voted for the García-Margallo y Marfil report on the taxation of electronic commerce."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "ONA explicitly stated that it did not receive intelligence material indicating that Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist network was planning to mount an operation in Bali.", "pos": ["\"But at no stage did ONA receive intelligence material indicating that Jemaah Islamiyah was planning to mount an operation in Bali.\""], "neg": ["Mr President, we took a great deal of care over preparing the Karamanou report in the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs.", "But Forest, the Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco, said: ''Mention the word prohibition and everyone knows what happened there.", "From 1996, the European Parliament has declared itself in favour of a ban on the use of meat and bone meal in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle - only if we had listened.", "A man is mowing grass.", "A woman is straightening her hair."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Those reports were denied by the interior minister, Prince Nayef.", "pos": ["However, the Saudi interior minister, Prince Nayef, denied the reports."], "neg": ["The commission estimates California lost $1.34 billion -- the most of any state -- to tax shelters in 2001.", "It must genuinely be a centre for coordinating the network of national agencies which, in turn, must activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence for food safety at the level of the individual regions.", "A woman opens a window.", "Several shots rang out in the darkness, but only one gator had been killed by 11 p.m.", "If we define a clear framework and binding on the Member States, the different systems to meet these requirements should have a longer period of being tested."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The American women, who are defending champions, will play in Philadelphia on Sept. 25 and conclude group competition in Columbus on Sept. 28.", "pos": ["The U.S. women, who are defending champions, will play on Sept. 25 in Philadelphia and conclude group competition on Sept. 28 in Columbus, Ohio."], "neg": ["A man is picking up a tree.", "A poll released this week showed that the FBI bugging of the mayor has given a boost to his re-election effort.", "Netgear prices the WGT634U Super Wireless Media Router, which will be available in the first quarter of 2004, at under $200.", "Kerry was viewed favorably by 66 percent of those polled; Dean at 57 percent.", "A woman is looking out a window."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Ricky Clemons' brief, troubled Missouri basketball career is over.", "pos": ["Missouri kicked Ricky Clemons off its team, ending his troubled career there."], "neg": ["Dell's OpenManage software includes Dell Update Packages with SMS to help automate the management of server hardware, applications and operating systems patches with a single tool.", "In a not-too-subtle swipe at Dean, he predicted Americans would not elect a Democrat \"who sounds an uncertain trumpet in these dangerous times.\"", "He said FDA hopes Congress and the courts will bring clarity to the situation and some financial relief to consumers — perhaps before the 2004 elections.", "As Sayliyah was the command base for the Iraq war, but hundreds who ran the war have returned to the United States.", "A man is playing a guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Hovan did not speak, but his lawyer, John Speranza, said his client \"did not wake up that day\" intending to hurt anyone.", "pos": ["Hovan \"did not wake up that day\" intending to hurt anyone, defense attorney John Speranza said."], "neg": ["A man is riding on one wheel on a motorcycle.", "Mr President, I voted in favour of the report García-Margallo y Marfil, which concerns the taxation of services provided by electronic means.", "A motorcyclist crashes on his motorcycle.", "On the situation in Burma.", "The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> rose 6 points, or 0.41 percent, to 1,498."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "\"We believe that it is not necessary to have a divisive confirmation fight over a Supreme Court appointment,\" Daschle wrote.", "pos": ["\"We believe that it is not necessary to have a divisive confirmation fight,\" Daschle of South Dakota wrote the Republican president."], "neg": ["The European Commission, the EU's powerful executive body, described the move as \"legally unwarranted, economically unfounded and politically unhelpful.\"", "A man is dancing.", "Either we belong to the club, or let us not be we and we thus should be folded with this decision.", "The labelling of beef which has been decided, which is a minimum labelling and which has only been in force for two and a half months ago, does not make it possible to trace the origin of animals properly very late and have banned the specified risk material.", "A man tries to feed a mouse to a snake."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Shares of McDonald's rose $1.83, or 8.3 percent, to close at the day's high of $23.89.", "pos": ["McDonald's shares rose $1.83 to close Friday at $23.89 on the New York Stock Exchange."], "neg": ["When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to put into practice the principle of precaution.", "Vis-a-vis these realities, the need for a greater implication and a greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and the underdevelopment is essential.", "Barbini said the EU may reach a compromise but it wants a system for labeling such foods, something the industry has resisted.", "Slovakia is not doomed to remain in the second group, and it is logical that it wants to join the Union at the same time as the Czech Republic.", "Waksal pleaded guilty to insider trading charges last year, and he is scheduled to be sentenced June 10."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "He said the FDA was hoping Congress and the courts would bring clarity to the situation and some financial relief to consumers.", "pos": ["He said FDA hopes Congress and the courts will bring clarity to the situation and some financial relief to consumers — perhaps before the 2004 elections."], "neg": ["With 97 percent of precincts counted tonight, 68 percent of voters opposed the tax.", "Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar dedicated to equal opportunities reinforces the integrated approach to equality by the mainstreaming and by specific guidelines.", "The committee was appointed by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld under orders from Congress.", "A man tosses a bag down an escalator.", "The agency has yet to fully formulate a strategy for the creation of an independent engineering technical authority."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Ernst & Young admitted no wrongdoing with the settlement.", "pos": ["Ernst & Young spokesman Kenneth Kerrigan said the firm admits no wrongdoing."], "neg": ["This rule can, moreover, apply to all drugs récréationnelles but dangerous provided that the consumer of drugs is the only run the risks.", "In the last three weeks, progress has been made in three major areas.", "Bond bulls would like the Fed to recognize that risks are biased toward economic weakness.", "A woman is chopping herbs.", "Advancers outnumbered decliners by nearly 8 to 3 on the NYSE and more than 11 to 5 on Nasdaq."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The driver of the truck escaped and is now being sought by the police, Supoyo said.", "pos": ["But police say the driver of the truck has not been found and is wanted for questioning."], "neg": ["\"We are very pleased with the judge's decision,\" Merrill said yesterday.", "A man is riding on a boat.", "The man slced through a thick rope with a sword.", "Rapper C-Murder has been convicted of second-degree murder, a crime that carries an automatic life sentence, in the shooting death of a 16-year-old inside a Jefferson Parish nightclub.", "Mr President, the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and internal affairs has prepared with great care the Karamanou report."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "\"In so many different ways, the artistry of black musicians has conveyed the experience of black Americans throughout our history,\" Bush said.", "pos": ["Surrounded by singers from Harlem, Bush said: ''The artistry of black musicians has conveyed the experience of black Americans throughout our history."], "neg": ["Let us organise itself to 15 in order to be able to welcome the right conditions for countries which are knocking on our door.", "A woman is chopping an onion into small pieces.", "He was tracked to Atlanta where he was arrested on Tuesday night.", "A man and woman are Bollywood dancing.", "This is not the time to show."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Geraldine Andrews, the pastor's daughter-in-law, said Robinson recently took her daughter out of a mental health facility.", "pos": ["Geraldine Andrews, Reynolds' daughter-in-law and a friend of Wilson's family, said Robinson had recently taken Wilson out of a mental health facility."], "neg": ["It must be the true brain coordination of the network of national agencies, which in turn will activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence food safety at regional level.", "The settlement taking effect this week was reached less than two months after O'Malley took the helm of the nation's fourth-largest archdiocese.", "The dog is barking at the toy.", "A person is slicing an onion.", "A man is playing a musical keyboard."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "State police said as many as 30 workers were trapped immediately after the garage collapsed.", "pos": ["As many as 30 people were believed to be trapped inside initially, the state police said."], "neg": ["A man is playing the guitar and singing.", "That made them heavily dependent on loans.", "The man lifted barbells.", "The woman is pouring oil into the pan.", "Two couple are talking with each other."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "OS ANGELES - ''The Hulk'' was a monster at the box office in its debut weekend, taking in a June opening record of $62.6 million.", "pos": ["\"The Hulk\" took in $62.6 million at the box office, a monster opening and a new June record."], "neg": ["We have started to exchange ideas on this question, from which it has emerged that all the Member States want to maintain this ceiling after enlargement.", "A man is swinging in a rope.", "But I would like to say to Parliament this afternoon that we should not lose sight of the fact that the EU spends just 1% of GDP and much of that is administered in the Member States.", "Earnings were 59 cents a share for the three months ended May 25 compared with 15 cents a share a year earlier.", "Question No 6 by (H-0886/00):"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It will also give Microsoft an opportunity to comment on remedies proposed by the Commission.", "pos": ["Among other things, Microsoft is to comment on proposed remedies in its response."], "neg": ["Spain has done a magnificent job in turning round the difficult neighbourly relations which Europe and North Africa and Spain and Morocco have suffered during the course of history.", "A man is chopping butter into a container.", "The man is using a sledghammer to break the concrete block that is on the other man.", "A man is playing a guitar.", "Two women are dancing."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Texans saddled with skyrocketing homeowners premiums might finally be getting relief.", "pos": ["Relief is in sight for Texans saddled with skyrocketing homeowners insurance premiums."], "neg": ["I wonder if the Commissioner already provides the steps that will make it possible to show that we consider Koitunica as the legally elected representative of the Serbian people and as a partner with which the European Union will now address.", "A man severs the toe of an empty leather boot using a sword.", "Symptoms include a stiff neck, fever, headache and sensitivity to light.", "The man is holding a skunk.", "\"There is no doubt about the chemical programme, biological programme, indeed nuclear programme, indeed all that was documented by the UN,\" he said."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Halliburton on Tuesday reiterated its contention that KBR had \"delivered fuel to Iraq at the best value, the best price and the best terms\".", "pos": ["\"We believe KBR delivered fuel to Iraq at the best value, the best price and the best terms,\" Halliburton spokeswoman Wendy Hall said."], "neg": ["The annual report aims to identify potential such improvements.", "A man breaks a slab of concrete that is lying on a prone man with a sledge hammer.", "Unfortunately, the ultimate objective of a European Constitution would be precisely the opposite, and so, of course, we cannot vote for it.", "But skeptics are concerned about the ease at which these hardware-based security features could be used to set digital rights management policies by vendors.", "ONA explicitly stated that it did not receive intelligence material indicating that Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist network was planning to mount an operation in Bali."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Cleveland Cavaliers won the right to draft James by winning the NBA's annual lottery Thursday night.", "pos": ["Such was the case Thursday night when the Cleveland Cavaliers won the \"LeBron James Lottery,\" otherwise known as the NBA draft lottery."], "neg": ["A man an woman are dancing in the rain.", "The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was off 0.11 percent, or 1.78 points, at 1,594.13.", "A man puts a knife in a vice.", "The New York Mets then selected outfielder Lastings Milledge from Lakewood Ranch High School in Florida.", "This is a vague area, and it is possible that more restrictive provisions may also remain in force, and this is one point in respect of which we have tabled amendments."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The euro has slipped nearly four percent since matching a record peak of around $1.1935 only last week and hitting an all-time high of 140.90 yen in late May.", "pos": ["The euro has slipped as much as four cents since matching a record peak near $1.1935 last week and hitting a record high of 140.90 yen in late May."], "neg": ["Finally, I welcome the idea that we should review the implementation of the programme annually.", "Greek ships were sunk, without any storm around, Mr Gayssot.", "The MDC called the week-long protest to urge Mugabe either to resign or to negotiate a settlement of the crisis gripping the country.", "From Broadway comedies like \"The Seven Year Itch\" (1952), \"Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?\"", "It is not clear on this point, and it is not impossible that can also remain in force for more restrictive provisions. This is particularly on this point that we have tabled amendments."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "With the Expose feature, all open windows shrink to fit on the screen but are still clear enough to identify.", "pos": ["With the Expose (ex-poh-SAY) feature, all the open windows on the desktop immediately shrink to fit on the screen but are still clear enough to identify."], "neg": ["They can in fact wish to more and better, but I think that it is a good start.", "Mr. Bush did not discuss this when he issued a brief statement yesterday thanking the commission for its work, and saying, \"Our journey into space will go on.\"", "As the Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe also has a solid experience with regard to such forms of control we can take it as a basis.", "Colgate shares were down 30 cents at $56 in morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange.", "It is a disgrace when we think that the European Union raises champion of the modernisation of economic life!"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "\"This case was both mentally challenging and emotionally exhausting,\" said the foreman, Jim Wolfcale, a 41-year-old minister.", "pos": ["Jim Wolfcale, the jury foreman and a minister, said, \"This case was both mentally challenging and emotionally exhausting.\""], "neg": ["The safeguard of the universal service using compensation funds which would make it possible to engage of the private profits to the profit of the public service will probably make failure.", "A person is peeling shrimp.", "Meat is dropped into a pan.", "Federal officials said the document remained sealed until Thursday morning to allow authorities to make arrests in five Western states.", "As Sayliyah was the command base for the Iraq war, but hundreds who ran the war have returned to the United States."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The research firm earlier had forecast an increase of 4.9 percent.", "pos": ["The firm had predicted earlier this year a 4.9 percent increase."], "neg": ["In fact, it is by no means certain that the definition of fair prices which is being proposed is better than another, because the different definitions currently used in the Member States all are quite adequate.", "A person is cutting a potato.", "If the employment is the policy of the Union, the Community, as a sector, cannot remain on the sidelines.", "The fire spread to several surrounding structures on the property and destroyed them as deputies held back firefighters.", "A girl is slicing a butter into two pieces."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "More than 100 police officers were involved in the busts that were the culmination of a two-year operation investigating the cocaine importing and money laundering gang.", "pos": ["More than 100 officers launched the London raids in the final phase of a two-year operation investigating a cocaine and money laundering ring."], "neg": ["A boy rode his bike on top of a metal fence.", "The man is playing the guitar.", "Wells’ other series include NBC’s ER and Third Watch.", "At Tuesday's arraignment hearing, Marsh pleaded not guilty to 122 counts of burial service fraud and 47 counts of making false statements.", "Worst of all, I believe, is having to issue a warning that a court judgment in their favour may just be a set of comforting words and make no real difference in their lives."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "But at age 15, she had reached 260 pounds and a difficult decision: It was time to try surgery.", "pos": ["But at the age of 15, she weighed a whopping 117kg and came to a difficult decision: it was time to try surgery."], "neg": ["A man is adding water to pan.", "Stocks dipped lower Tuesday as investors opted to cash in profits from Monday's big rally despite a trio of reports suggesting modest improvement in the economy.", "I would urge Prague to seize this sign, this invitation, this request for dialogue, to follow them up, and to ensure that, together with this House, these relics of a nationalist era can be abandoned.", "A man is eating a food.", "You do not want to incorporate in the Treaty, which demonstrates that this text should be set aside."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Buoyed by some of the advice imparted by Nicklaus, Howell shot an 8-under 64 for a one-stroke lead over Kenny Perry.", "pos": ["Buoyed by advice imparted by Nicklaus, Howell shot an 8-under 64 on Thursday to enter today's round with a one-stroke lead over Kenny Perry."], "neg": ["Five-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong had a few words of advice for other cancer survivors in Denver on Friday.", "The cradle for the h2200 has space for recharging a second battery.", "In a news release Thursday, Strayhorn said this was the first time a comptroller rejected a budget.", "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "A woman is riding a horse."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "So in his State of the Union address in January, Bush declared that the British government \"has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.\"", "pos": ["In his Jan. 28 State of the Union message, Bush said, \"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.\""], "neg": ["The federal standard for ozone is 0.12 parts per million.", "Spain has done a magnificent job in turning round the difficult neighbourly relations which Europe and North Africa and Spain and Morocco have suffered during the course of history.", "Only Intel Corp. has a lower dividend yield.", "It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union.", "The common economic activities create peaceful links between the people."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The other 24 members are split between representatives of the securities industry and so-called \"public\" board members.", "pos": ["Of the 24 directors who are not exchange executives, half are representatives of the securities industry and half are designated public members."], "neg": ["Women swimmers are diving in from the starting platform.", "She had only a single condition, that the book not be published until her death.", "A man is traveling in a boat.", "Initially, that of a simplification and a clarification of the Treaties.", "In that case, the court held that Cincinnati had violated the First Amendment in banning only the advertising pamphlets in the interest of aesthetics."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "\"Our strong preference is to achieve a financial restructuring out of court, and we remain hopeful we can do so,\" chief executive Marce Fuller said.", "pos": ["\"Our strong preference is to achieve a financial restructuring out of court,\" Mirant CEO Marce Fuller said in a prepared statement early Friday."], "neg": ["Three men are doing same dance in the street.", "- My party has serious reservations about Community law applying to the sale of consumer products, as against applying the concept of mutual recognition of standards.", "A man is smoking.", "Later Tuesday, Graham was expected to be re-elected for a second one-year term.", "Two men are fighting in a cow pasture."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Chera Larkins, 32, of Manhattan, charged with three sham marriages, is also charged with perjury and filing a false instrument.", "pos": ["Chera Larkins, 32, of Manhattan, charged with perjury and filing a false instrument in three marriage applications."], "neg": ["A man is sweeping the floor of a house using a long broom.", "The only case for which no tax is still perceived \"is an example of supply in the European Community from a third country.", "The people threw the dummy over the cliff edge.", "Gainer said the two staff aides are \"very sorry this all happened,\" and the security personnel had performed \"well within standards.\"", "The UK Labour members of the PES Group welcome the adoption of their contribution to the ongoing work of the IGC on reinforced cooperation, without endorsing every single detail."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Senate Banking Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on Tuesday where Donaldson is scheduled to testify on hedge and mutual funds.", "pos": ["The Senate Banking Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on Tuesday, when Donaldson will be questioned about hedge and mutual funds."], "neg": ["A man is playing the piano.", "At 12 months, there was still a difference between the groups, but it was not considered significant.", "And when asked if he felt regret or guilt about the attack his answer was an adamant \"no\".", "Those who deny the enhanced cooperation enjoy the same freedom of movement as passengers in the back seat of a car.", "U.S. and European leaders pledged on Wednesday to work together to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons, presenting a united front after months of bitter acrimony over Iraq."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The new servers will run either Linux or the x86 version of Solaris, he said.", "pos": ["The servers can run Solaris x86 operating system or the standard Linux operating system."], "neg": ["Mr McDonnell is leading Grant Thornton International's inquiry into the Italian business.", "The company said it would cut the wholesale price of most top-line CDs to $9.09 from $12.02.", "Bond bulls would like the Fed to recognize that risks are biased toward economic weakness.", "So in his State of the Union address in January, Bush declared that the British government \"has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.\"", "A woman is dancing, and singing."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "\"The economy, nonetheless, has yet to exhibit sustainable growth.", "pos": ["But the economy hasn't shown signs of sustainable growth."], "neg": ["People who have opposed these actions throughout are now trying to find fresh reasons to say this wasn't the right thing to do.\"", "Russ Britt is the Los Angeles Bureau Chief for CBS.MarketWatch.com.", "Meat is dropped into a pan.", "The consumer group generated $4.47 billion of profit and $20 billion of revenue from January to June, 53% of Citigroup's profit and revenue.", "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected ImClone's original application in December 2001, saying the trial had been sloppily conducted."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I was going to the court believing I could do this, only if I played my best tennis.", "pos": ["\"I was believing that I was confident I could do this, but only in the case I would play my best tennis."], "neg": ["A man is playing a cello.", "He was arrested last week for allegedly punching a parking attendant outside a nightclub in LA.", "There has been a budget heading for the funding of mine clearance and prevention programmes for many years now.", "A man is shaking another mans hand.", "Do you think that the Austrian model, i.e. bilateral majority resolutions, will be used in future as a way of passing resolutions which bypass the European institutions and of forming a new institution or a new group in order to circumvent unanimity in the Council?"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Dogs, he said, are second only to humans in the thoroughness of medical understanding and research.", "pos": ["He said that dogs are second only to humans in terms of being the subject of medical research."], "neg": ["A development which has made heavily dependent on capital loans.", "Mr President, the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and we are to retain any prepared very carefully the Karamanou report.", "And I say to you very clearly: we need to give its opportunity to Koitunica, and I therefore hope that he will ensure an amnesty over the coming weeks or months; but meanwhile, I hope, however, that, in political terms and in budgetary terms, political conditions are linked to the introduction of these two new budget lines, namely democratisation and reconstruction.", "After all, it is by no means certain that the proposed definition of equitable price is better than any other, because the various definitions that are currently in use in the Member States are all perfectly satisfactory.", "A man in a suit is standing at a microphone and singing."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The spacecraft is scheduled to blast off as early as tomorrow or as late as Friday from the Jiuquan launching site in the Gobi Desert.", "pos": ["The spacecraft is scheduled to blast off between next Wednesday and Friday from a launching site in the Gobi Desert."], "neg": ["A tiger is walking around his cage.", "We have heard that the previous Council Presidency first restructured and then scrapped the Ministry for Equality.", "A woman is cutting big pepper.", "In my view, there is, however, nothing worse than having to warn people that a ruling for them could only be a series of words pleasing and have no practical effect on their existence.", "The man is playing with a skull."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "At least 11 more cases in Indiana and three in Illinois are suspected.", "pos": ["There’s also at least three suspected cases in Illinois and 11 in Indiana."], "neg": ["Shares jumped almost 7 percent in pre-open trading, rising to $18.26 from $17.05 at Tuesday's close.", "A man is drawing on a digital dry erase board.", "A woman is ridint a horse.", "\"What can I say to you?\" he told a crowd at a cemetery with a thousand headstones, many of them marking the graves of entire families.", "Thirdly, acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the individual countries and for the EU as a whole basically depend - and Denmark demonstrated this - on dismantling the social and democratic deficits of European policy."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The pill, which they call the \"polypill,\" would contain aspirin, a cholesterol-lowering drug, three blood pressure-lowering drugs at half the standard dose and folic acid.", "pos": ["The ingredients of such a polypill would contain aspirin, a cholesterol-lowering statin, three blood pressure-lowering agents in half dose, and folic acid."], "neg": ["The man is mixing whipping cream.", "\"We believe that it is not necessary to have a divisive confirmation fight,\" Daschle of South Dakota wrote the Republican president.", "Revenue rose 3.9 percent, to $1.63 billion from $1.57 billion.", "Thus, it is urgent that the staff of the interservice group are very quickly strengthened at the heart of the secretariat of the committee, so that all the proposed act of general scope can be accompanied, during their examination by the College on the basis of Article 299 (2), a fiche d'impact detail.", "The joint debate is closed."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "\"They drive around in their cars, while people are being killed 500 metres away,\" he said on Sunday.", "pos": ["\"What they are doing right now is they drive around in their cars, while people are being killed 500 metres away."], "neg": ["Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement at all than a poor one and it is true that, in this instance, the American proposal was a third-rate proposal, and one which was completely unacceptable to Europe.", "That made them heavily dependent on loans.", "A man is drawing on a digital dry erase board.", "(The sitting was suspended at 2.06 p.m. and resumed at 3 p.m.)", "A car is parking."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A Merrill Lynch spokesman said \"we are pleased with the judge's decision.\"", "pos": ["\"We are very pleased with the judge's decision,\" Merrill said yesterday."], "neg": ["After all, it is by no means certain that the proposed definition of equitable price is better than any other, because the various definitions that are currently in use in the Member States are all perfectly satisfactory.", "\"I am advised that certain allegations of criminal conduct have been interposed against my counsel, J. Michael Boxley,'' the Silver statement said. \"", "And I am telling you loud and clear: Kostunica must be given his chance here and I therefore hope that he will give amnesty in the next couple of weeks or months, but meanwhile, I do want the introduction of those two new budget lines, democratisation and reconstruction, to be accompanied by political conditions, both from a political and budgetary perspective.", "A horse is standing.", "I insist on this point because the market cannot regulate everything and that, in this perspective, there is neither can be no competition without limits."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Trans fats are created when hydrogen is added to vegetable oil, solidifying it and increasing the shelf life of certain food products.", "pos": ["Trans fats are created when vegetable oil has been partially hydrogenated, solidifying it and increasing the shelf life of certain products."], "neg": ["The Hispanic population increased by 9.8per cent from the April 2000 census figures, despite less favourable social and economic conditions than in the 1990s.", "\"We put a lot of effort and energy into improving our patching process, probably later than we should have and now we're just gaining incredible speed.", "A man is playing an acoustic guitar.", "Especially, when a unipersonal company or a company less cash than 250 paid has a project, it must be possible to be given a financing not only with one guarantee with 120%, but also on the simple basis of an good idea.", "A man talks on his cell phone."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "He'll be swept over any minute or just die of the cold, Moriarty thought.", "pos": ["From the top of the embankment, Moriarty thought, \"He'll be swept over any minute or just die of the cold.\""], "neg": ["Sources within the racing industry have told the Daily Bulletin that Fontana will get a second NASCAR race on Labor Day weekend starting next season.", "Mr Blair went on: \"I think we did the right thing in relation to Iraq.", "A man is speaking on a phone.", "Hispanics, the fastest growing ethnic group in the US, have overtaken blacks to become the largest minority in the US, according to newly released government figures.", "A man is riding a motorcycle through a town."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "KEDO Spokesman, Roland Tricot said: \"The executive board decided to refer this question to capitals.", "pos": ["\"The executive board decided to refer this to the capitals,\" the Korean Energy Development Organization said."], "neg": ["The right of a government arbitrarily to set aside its own constitution is the defining characteristic of a tyranny.", "A man is putting a knife in a vice.", "A man looks out the window.", "We have heard that the previous Council Presidency first restructured and then scrapped the Ministry for Equality.", "A woman is rowing a boat."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "But skeptics are concerned about the ease with which vendors can use these hardware-based security features to set digital rights management policies.", "pos": ["But skeptics are concerned about the ease at which these hardware-based security features could be used to set digital rights management policies by vendors."], "neg": ["A woman is exercising.", "A woman is dancing.", "The European Council will also discuss the state of progress of the accession negotiations and hence of the enlargement.", "A cat is licking its paw.", "The findings appear in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Prosecutors did an about-face in May and asked that the autopsy reports be unsealed after portions of Conner Peterson's autopsy report favorable to the defense were leaked to the media.", "pos": ["They asked that the autopsy reports be unsealed after portions of the autopsy report on Peterson's unborn son that were favorable to the defense were leaked to the media."], "neg": ["Rice (57-12) and Stanford (51-17) will meet in a winner-take-all matchup at 6:05 p.m. Monday.", "\"We're going to do everything in our power to get money back to ratepayers as quickly as possible,\" Kennedy said.", "Hotly contested legislation that would change the state's takeover law and help a Michigan-based development company fend off a takeover cleared the state Senate on Thursday.", "Mr Sahel said police had identified the bodies of seven of the 14-strong cell believed to have carried out the five almost simultaneous attacks on Saturday.", "A man is playing a guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "However, other unions including the powerful CGT remained opposed to the reform and demanded the government begin fresh negotiations with them.", "pos": ["The powerful CGT and other unions remained opposed to the plans, however, and demanded the government renegotiate the reform with them."], "neg": ["From the first discussions on this dossier, which were held at European level at the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission has given a commitment to the Member States to pursue a course of action designed to develop what we might call a European police culture, grounded in the highest standards of duty, respect for the rights and freedoms of our citizens and efficiency in the fight against crime.", "It must genuinely be a centre for coordinating the network of national agencies which, in turn, must activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence for food safety at the level of the individual regions.", "Heatley underwent surgery Saturday for a broken jaw and an MRI found two torn ligaments in his right knee.", "A man opens a can and pours the contents into a bowl.", "Without doubt, worth it better not to have an agreement that will have an agreement that is wrong and, in this case, the American proposal was a watered-down proposal, unacceptable for Europe."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Several thousand 3rd Infantry troops, including the 3rd Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Benning in Columbus, began returning last week.", "pos": ["A few thousand troops, most from the division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Benning in Columbus, began returning last week, with flights continuing through Friday."], "neg": ["Secondly, we must say 'no' to the concept bang who would like to see the same time admit a large group of countries, because that would be in contradiction with the principle of the admission of each country according to its merits.", "A man is kicking pots of water.", "These weeks, three important have been achieved.", "Secondly, say no to the big bang idea of incorporating candidate countries simultaneously as a large group, since that would militate against the principle that each country should be admitted on its own merits.", "A person is adding oil in the pan."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man is riding a bicycle.", "pos": ["A man is riding a bike."], "neg": ["A man is riding a bicycle around a parking lot.", "A kangaroo is eating.", ". The British Labour Members of the PSE Group welcomes the support given to the contribution to the work of the IGC on closer cooperation, without adhere entirely with all the details of this.", "Hernandez filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint and sued.", "Madam President, I ask you, on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries and on my own behalf, to send a message of condolence from Parliament to the families of the victims and to the local authorities of both Brittany and of Marín, city of Galicia, which is from the majority of the victims."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman and man are dancing in the rain.", "pos": ["A man and woman are dancing in rain."], "neg": ["You do not even intend to incorporate it into the Treaty, evidence indeed that this text, this exercise was always destined to be laid aside.", "There has been a budget heading for the funding of mine clearance and prevention programmes for many years now.", "The other viewpoint illustrated by the rapporteur' s initial statement and shared by a number of members is to promote regulations and codes of conduct which are needed in order to establish among insurers ways of organising costs on a mutual basis providing everybody with guaranteed access to high-quality care and to counter the risk of discriminatory practices developing together with risk and client selection.", "If we want to help Indonesia, we now have to intervene with money and concrete actions, and not only with words.", "I find exemplary that France will be resolved to take this step."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman is slicing an onion.", "pos": ["A woman is cutting an onion."], "neg": ["Character actor Hume Cronyn, 91, died Sunday at his home in Connecticut.", "All those who are at present engaged in illicit work would obtain work with decent social conditions.", "A woman is dancing.", "A man is playing guitar.", "A dog is barking at an electronic toy duck."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman is cutting broccoli.", "pos": ["A woman is slicing broccoli."], "neg": ["A man is cutting tomatoes.", "A woman is cutting some flowers.", "A woman opens a closet.", "But the inadequate performance of students in various subgroups, such as race, pushed the state onto the needs-improvement list under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.", "A guy is playing a trumpet."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Two men are fistfighting in a ring.", "pos": ["Two men fistfight in a ring."], "neg": ["James Rohr, chairman and chief executive officer, said PNC regretted the incident.", "The bodies of some of the dead, pulled out from under the train, were laid out beside the tracks while emergency services brought in wooden coffins.", "Revenue rose 3.9 percent, to $1.63 billion from $1.57 billion.", "Aventis, based in Strasbourg, France, is one of the leading producers of the vaccine and one of a handful of companies that still make it.", "A man and woman are dancing in rain."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The man is drawing.", "pos": ["A man is drawing."], "neg": ["I wonder if the Commissioner has planned any steps in this respect to demonstrate that we really do consider Kostunica to be the only lawfully elected representative of the Serbian people, and the only partner with whom the European Union is involved as from today.", "I have already said on this point and I fully endorse what he said on the need to improve the public debate considerably I will not repeat what I said, but it is true that, all too often the citizens feel alienated by decisions taken in authorities that they do not know.", "The sales leave Mr. Turner with about 45 million shares in AOL.", "I wonder if the Commissioner has planned any steps in this respect to demonstrate that we really do consider Kostunica to be the only lawfully elected representative of the Serbian people, and the only partner with whom the European Union is involved as from today.", "The European Council will also discuss the state of progress of the accession negotiations and hence of the enlargement."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A small dog laying on the bed.", "pos": ["A small dog is laying on a bed."], "neg": ["\"The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives.\"", "Licensing revenue slid 21 percent, however, to $107.6 million.", "Thirty-four of the men have been arrested and the others are being sought, US Attorney Daniel Bogden said yesterday.", "Mr President, we took a great deal of care over preparing the Karamanou report in the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs.", "There is urgency and that is why we decided to put this item on the agenda."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A person wipes butter on a tray.", "pos": ["A person is buttering a tray."], "neg": ["A budget line is funding programmes for mine clearance and prevention for years.", "The House had also fought, however, for the reduction of the funds available for innovative measures to be offset by means of resources from the flexibility instrument, a demand which is recorded in a declaration on the financial perspective in the Interinstitutional Agreement.", "Agents found more than 1,000 credit cards and credit card duplicating machines during a search of Ragin's address.", "On the contrary, the influence of the national democracies is being reduced by the further restriction of the right of veto and by the fact that the European Parliament is being given more power.", "Above all, when a one-man company or a company with fewer than 250 employees has a project, it should not need to provide 120% loan guarantees in the form of land to receive financing; it should also be possible for it to be funded on the basis of a good idea."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
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{"query": "The man is slicing a potato.", "pos": ["A man is slicing potato."], "neg": ["Those which refuse the reinforced cooperation enjoy the same freedom of movement as the passengers of the back seat of a car.", "It must genuinely be a centre for coordinating the network of national agencies which, in turn, must activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence for food safety at the level of the individual regions.", "A woman is slipping in the water-tub.", "At 12:10 p.m. EDT, Canada's benchmark S&P/TSX composite index was up 6.87 points or 0.1 per cent to 6,979.29.", "A woman is peeling a potato."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
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{"query": "A boy is playing a key-board.", "pos": ["A little boy is playing a keyboard."], "neg": ["A woman is cutting an apple.", ". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united European continent.", "A person is scrubbing a zucchini.", "A person is slicing a bread pieces.", "They said they had concluded that the film failed \"to present a balanced portrayal\" of the Reagans."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
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{"query": "A toy train is striking a toy car.", "pos": ["A toy train strikes a toy car."], "neg": ["A spokesman for SCO could not be reached for comment this afternoon.", "A cat swings on a ceiling fan.", "A lion tries to climb over a wall.", "On the contrary, the influence of the national democracies is being reduced by the further restriction of the right of veto and by the fact that the European Parliament is being given more power.", "Two women are hugging on a couch."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A cat opens a drawer and climbs inside.", "pos": ["A cat is opening a drawer and climbing inside."], "neg": ["A big cat opens a plastic drawer with his paws and then hops inside.", "We must be aware today, since we are still in uncertainty, what are the scientific data, what are the measures to be taken.", "A cat is playing a piano.", "(it) the British labour Members of the Group of the Party of European Socialists is very welcome to the contribution that they have continuous work of the IGC on the cooperation, without all the details of this.", "That made them heavily dependent on loans."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
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{"query": "A woman plays the flute.", "pos": ["A woman is playing the flute."], "neg": ["You do not want in the Treaty, which shows that this text must be put aside.", "This Parliament has also fought for this reduction in the funds available for innovative actions should be compensated for by the use of the framework of flexibility, defined in a statement on the financial perspective.", "The woman is shooting a rifle.", "Spain has developed in a way the positive extremely difficult neighbourhood that has always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "Seven 20- and 21-year-old male cadets were caught in an off-campus hotel room early Saturday with two female teens, 16 and 18 years."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman is brushing some shrimp.", "pos": ["A woman brushes some shrimp."], "neg": ["This is the position defended by the rapporteur and by the popular Party.", "A woman is cutting broccoli.", "A man is cleaning a cd.", "A man is adding oil to car.", "I find it rather odd that people are already trying to tie the Commission's hands in relation to the proposal for a directive, while at the same calling on it to present a Green Paper on the current situation with regard to optional and supplementary health insurance schemes."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man is dancing on the ceiling.", "pos": ["A man is dancing on the ceiling of a room."], "neg": ["In Nigeria, Chevron has been accused by the All-Ijaw indigenous people of instigating violence against them and actually paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot protesters at the Warri naval base.", "He said the FDA was hoping Congress and the courts would bring clarity to the situation and some financial relief to consumers.", "A man is writing on a paper.", "We heard that the previous presidency initially restructured then dismantled the ministry for the equal opportunity.", "His partner Bijan Darvish is charged with filing a false police report."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman thinly slices an onion with a large knife.", "pos": ["A woman is slicing onions with a large knife."], "neg": ["Its shares jumped to $54.50 in pre-open trading from $50.90 at Wednesday's close.", "He added: \"There is no doubt about the chemical programme, the biological programme and indeed the nuclear weapons programme.", "Police then called a bomb squad, but the device exploded, killing Wells, before bomb technicians arrived.", "Above all, when a company unipersonnelle or a company with fewer than 250 employees is a project, it must be possible to receive financing not only with a guarantee to 120%, but also on the basis of a good idea.", "A man is reading an email."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man is playing a keyboard.", "pos": ["A man plays a keyboard."], "neg": ["A woman is playing the flute.", "Sliding down the embankment, the two rescuers hit the spongy, rocky floor of the river and immediately felt the pull.", "Therefore, I also believe that this reconciliation is sustainable, but that the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the university issue and to many other issues, needs visible signs of its success, and powerful support, else peace throughout the region will be under threat.", "Veteran stage and screen actor Hume Cronyn died of cancer Sunday.", "It is unlikely that the planned protection of the universal provision of services by means of a compensatory fund, as a result of which private profits are ploughed back into public services, will last."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
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{"query": "A woman is peeling a potato.", "pos": ["A woman peels a potato."], "neg": ["The newly unsealed 32-count indictment alleges money laundering and conspiracy and \"strikes at one of the very top targets in the drug-trafficking world,\" Jiménez said.", "A man is buttering bread.", "We welcome the arrangements proposed in this respect by the Preparatory Committee and adopted by the General Assembly regarding procedures for the registration of non-governmental organisations for involvement in the preparatory process and the Special Session in September 2001.", "A dog is swimming in a pool.", "More than 100 officers launched the London raids in the final phase of a two-year operation investigating a cocaine and money laundering ring."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A kitten is playing with a blue rope toy.", "pos": ["A kitten is playing with a toy."], "neg": ["A lion is trying to climb up over a wall.", "(ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and United European continent.", "Fletcher said he expects to have the support of lawmakers from agricultural states, many of whom are on the committee.", "A man is playing guitar.", "The two Democrats on the five-member FCC panel held a news conference to sway opinion against Powell."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A group of people are sweeping water out of a house.", "pos": ["People are sweeping water out of a house."], "neg": ["A man is eating wood.", "Through Sunday, Sept. 21, Site Finder has been visited over 65 million times by Internet users.", "We shall talk with one voice disgracieuse within the WTO.", "I wonder if the Commissioner has planned any steps in this respect to demonstrate that we really do consider Kostunica to be the only lawfully elected representative of the Serbian people, and the only partner with whom the European Union is involved as from today.", "A woman is slicing carrot."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The dog is barking at the toy.", "pos": ["A dog is barking at a toy."], "neg": ["A dog is barking at an electronic toy duck.", "The girl sat on the couch to crochet.", "It is a matter of the utmost importance and yet has curiously attracted very little public attention.", "In Nigeria, the indigenous All-Ijaw accused Chevron to encourage violence against them and to go as far as to pay Nigerian soldiers to draw on the demonstrators in the naval base of Warri.", ". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united European continent."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A cat is drinking milk.", "pos": ["A kitten is drinking milk."], "neg": ["Median household income declined 1.1 percent between 2001 and 2002 to $42,409, after accounting for inflation.", "The woman is cutting potatoes.", "The dog played with a bug on the carpet.", "I should like to thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, Mr Brok, for his clear, comprehensive report.", "(Parliament accepted the oral amendment)"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A turtle is walking.", "pos": ["A tortoise is walking."], "neg": ["Texas Instruments climbed $1.37 to $19.25 yesterday and Novellus Systems Inc. advanced $1.76 to $36.31.", "The target was being shot with bullets.", "The men are fighting each other.", "A man is cutting a potato.", "The annual report is to identify such potential improvements."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman is putting on sun glasses.", "pos": ["A woman puts on sunglasses."], "neg": ["That is the position defended by the rapporteur and shared by the European People's Party.", "A man is cutting grass.", "Several people are carrying large bags.", "His lawyer, Pamela MacKey, said Bryant expects to be completely exonerated.", "The lesson for this Parliament this morning must be that we have to conclude that maritime laws throughout the world are in a state of shambles and we have to begin the process of putting them right."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The man is playing the guitar.", "pos": ["A man is playing guitar."], "neg": ["There’s also at least three suspected cases in Illinois and 11 in Indiana.", "Home Depot reported a 22 percent jump in third-quarter profit behind a nearly 8 percent rise in same-store sales.", "(Applause)", "Mr President, we can hear the Commission's position on public access to documents from the internal manual, which was submitted on 11 October, the Commission's officials in order to explain to them how to deal with the requests of Members as regards access to documents.", "Two little girls talk on the telephone."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man plays a guitar.", "pos": ["A man is playing a guitar."], "neg": ["A woman is playing guitar.", "But the United States' ultimate goal was not just to topple Mr. Hussein but to stabilize the country and install a friendly government.", "Do you think that the Austrian model, i.e. bilateral majority resolutions, will be used in future as a way of passing resolutions which bypass the European institutions and of forming a new institution or a new group in order to circumvent unanimity in the Council?", "The man drew on the white paper.", "The index, which measures activity in the service sector, climbed to 50.7 last month from 47.9 in March."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman is tapping her fingers on a table.", "pos": ["A woman is tapping her fingers."], "neg": ["In May 2002, LCDs accounted for only 22 percent of monitor sales.", "A dog is rolling from side to side.", "The UK Labour members of the PES Group welcome the adoption of their contribution to the ongoing work of the IGC on reinforced cooperation, without endorsing every single detail.", "The man tased the food.", "Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar devoted to equal opportunities reinforces the integrated approach to equality through gender mainstreaming and through specific guidelines."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Someone is boiling okra in a pot.", "pos": ["Someone is cooking okra in a pan."], "neg": ["In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average a gauge of 30 blue chip stocks was up 3.29 points or 0.04 per cent to 8,585.97.", "The European Commission, the EU's powerful executive body, described the move as \"legally unwarranted, economically unfounded and politically unhelpful.\"", "Let us, as a Europe of 15 Member States, organise ourselves in order to be able to welcome those countries who are knocking at the door into the fold under respectable conditions.", "I wonder whether the Commissioner already provides for steps to show that we consider Kostunica as the legally elected representative of the Serbian people and as a partner with which the European Union will now have to deal with.", "Prairie dogs, usually found in southwestern and western states, aren’t indigenous to Wisconsin."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The man is playing the drums.", "pos": ["A man is playing drums."], "neg": ["Researchers found the fossils in a semidesert area of Venezuela, about 250 miles west of Caracas.", "You do not want in the Treaty, which shows that this text must be put aside.", "He arrives later this week on the first state visit by a US President.", "The arm was kept in a separate room, but the monkeys could track their progress by watching a representation of the arm and its motions on a video screen.", "DRINKING green tea can dramatically reduce the risk of men contracting prostate cancer, a study by Australian researchers has discovered."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man dives into a pool.", "pos": ["A man is diving into a pool."], "neg": ["And I am telling you loud and clear: Kostunica must be given his chance here and I therefore hope that he will give amnesty in the next couple of weeks or months, but meanwhile, I do want the introduction of those two new budget lines, democratisation and reconstruction, to be accompanied by political conditions, both from a political and budgetary perspective.", "They continue to put the pressure that they earn. money with the distribution of the limit of 150 grammes allows them to strengthen their position.", "A man is eating a pizza.", "A boy is playing piano and singing.", "Seven 20- and 21-year-old male cadets were caught in an off-campus hotel room early Saturday with two female teens, 16 and 18 years."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman is cutting a leak.", "pos": ["A woman is slicing a leek."], "neg": ["Mr President, we took a great deal of care over preparing the Karamanou report in the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs.", "A girl is riding a scooter.", "A man is eating a banana.", "Mr President, I voted for the García-Margallo y Marfil report on the taxation of electronic commerce.", "Boston Scientific said it has gained 51 percent of the coated-stent market in Europe."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man dives into a pool.", "pos": ["A man dives into a swimming pool."], "neg": ["A man is slicing a bun.", "But skeptics are concerned about the ease at which these hardware-based security features could be used to set digital rights management policies by vendors.", "A man is playing a piano.", "Finally I welcome the idea of us to give an annual assessment of the implementation of the programme.", "A woman is adding some mushrooms and liquid to a pot."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A little boy is playing a guitar.", "pos": ["A boy is playing guitar."], "neg": ["The Nasdaq composite index fell 2.95, or 0.2 percent, for the week to 1,912.36 after stumbling 37.78 yesterday.", "A man is doing back flips on a trampoline.", "Emily Church is London bureau chief of CBS.MarketWatch.com.", "In the debate is closed.", "Davey started attending Northwest College, which is affiliated with the Assemblies of God, in 1999 with plans to become a minister."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The man is smashing garlic.", "pos": ["A man is smashing some garlic."], "neg": ["This is our priority fight in order to ensure that the affirmation of fundamental rights is put into practice in our political decisions.", "The new version, W32/Sobig.C-mm, had already reached a \"high level\" outbreak status by Monday, according to security analysts.", "The MDC called the strike to force Mr Mugabe to either resign or negotiate a settlement of the Zimbabwe crisis.", "The baby is laughing and crawling.", "A man and woman are riding a motorcycle."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man played the piano.", "pos": ["A man plays a piano."], "neg": ["Moore of Alabama says he will appeal his case to the nation's highest court.", "The blaze then spread to several surrounding structures on the property and destroyed them.", "One woman hands volleyballs to another woman who serves them.", "Mr President, in my speech I shall focus on the report by Mrs Lalumière, report that I think it is well thought-out and clearly formulated.", "The man added vegetables to the broth in the pot."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man is slicing a cucumber.", "pos": ["A man is cutting cucumbers."], "neg": ["Someone is slicing a cucumber.", "The monkey swung from branch to branch.", "Furthermore, we would have a chance to demonstrate to Europe that we are in a position to develop the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro, in Yugoslavia, recognising the real democratic principles.", "Clearly, explanations are necessary for the increased incidence of BSE, not only in France but also in other Member States.", "A woman is seasoning a piece of meat."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Two little girls talk on the telephone.", "pos": ["Two girls talk on the phone."], "neg": ["Two couple are talking with each other.", "So far, they have searched Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Indiana, authorities in those state said.", "The European Council will also be discussing the state of progress of accession negotiations, and therefore of enlargement.", "People with the same business affairs in common are peacefully bound to one another.", "A kid is playing a guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man is chopping a log with an axe.", "pos": ["A man is chopping a tree trunk with an axe."], "neg": ["The cook is slicing bell peppers.", "British Airways plans to retire its seven Concordes at the end of October.", "\"It seems to me ... we're just dealing with bragging rights here, who wins and who loses,\" said Gammerman, who heard the case without a jury.", "Bishop O'Brien, aged 67, had told police he thought he had hit a dog or cat.", "The attorney representing al-Halabi, Air Force Maj. James Key III, denied the charges, according to The Associated Press."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman is climbing a cliff.", "pos": ["A woman is climbing a rock face."], "neg": ["KEDO Spokesman, Roland Tricot said: \"The executive board decided to refer this question to capitals.", "A man is holding a frog.", "Madam President, I would ask you, on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries and in my own name, to send a message of condolence on the part of Parliament to the families of the victims and the local authorities of Brittany as Marín, city of Galicia, where originating from most of the victims.", "\"We're in the Stanley Cup finals, and it was a little bit embarrassing the way we played in the first two games.", "Spain has done a magnificent job in turning round the difficult neighbourly relations which Europe and North Africa and Spain and Morocco have suffered during the course of history."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man is slicing an onion.", "pos": ["A man slices an onion."], "neg": ["A dog is rolling from side to side.", "The euro has slipped as much as four cents since matching a record peak near $1.1935 last week and hitting a record high of 140.90 yen in late May.", "The women are feeding the animal.", "They will keep the pressure on, and they are strengthening their position with the revenue they are generating from delivering mail above 150 grams.", "Aventis, based in Strasbourg, France, is one of the leading producers of the vaccine and one of a handful of companies that still make it."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A polar bear is running towards a group of walruses.", "pos": ["A polar bear is chasing a group of walruses."], "neg": ["The mother also alleged in the lawsuit that she was sexually assaulted by one of the guards.", "Above all, when a business or a society with fewer than 250 a project, it must be possible for a means not only with a guarantee to 120%, but also on the basis of a good idea.", "The upcoming second-quarter earnings season will be particularly important in offering investors guidance, they say.", "This is a vague area, and it is possible that more restrictive provisions may also remain in force, and this is one point in respect of which we have tabled amendments.", "In addition, \"fewer than 10\" FBI offices have conducted investigations involving visits to Islamic mosques, the Justice Department said."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A small kitten is playing a ball.", "pos": ["A kitten is playing with a ball."], "neg": ["I call on Prague to respond to this signal, this challenge, this plea for dialogue, to grant our request and to ensure, together with our House, that this legacy of a nationalist era can be consigned to the past.", "Bush said U.S. and European Union leaders, at an annual Washington summit, agreed on the need to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons.", "The only case for which no tax is still perceived is that of a delivery in the European Community starting from a third country.", "He had been arrested twice before for trespassing and barred from the complex - home to his mother and two children.", "A man is reading an email."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
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{"query": "A girl makes up her bed.", "pos": ["A young girl makes her bed."], "neg": ["Mr President, we know the position of the Commission on public access to documents in the internal manual, which was submitted on 11 October, the Commission's officials in order to explain how to handle applications by Members as regards access to documents.", "U.S. Capitol Police evacuated the Capitol yesterday after a sensor detected a possible biohazard in the Senate wing, but authorities later said it was a false alarm.", "Scott Dixon eventually made winning the Honda Indy 225 look easy Sunday at Pikes Peak International Raceway.", "Elecia Battle, of Cleveland, told police she dropped her purse as she left the Quick Shop Food Mart last week after buying the ticket.", "The woman droppped eggplant into the pan."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The cat played with a watermelon.", "pos": ["A cat is playing with a watermelon."], "neg": ["If we want to help Indonesia we must act now with money and deeds, not merely words.", "Someone is mixing a liquid.", "His partner Bijan Darvish is charged with filing a false police report.", "Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call had expected Kodak to earn 68 cents a share for the quarter.", "The virus killed 44 people in the Toronto area, including one doctor and two nurses."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A girl jumps on a car.", "pos": ["A girl is jumping onto a car."], "neg": ["A woman and man are dancing in the rain.", "The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 86.56 points, or 0.94 percent, to 9,109.99, after giving up more than 1 percent earlier.", "Mr President, the Commission' s attitude to the right of access to documents may be seen from the internal handbook sent on 11 October to employees of the Commission to tell them how to deal with requests from MEPs for access to documents.", "A man skateboards on a half pipe.", "Two men are playing table tennis."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Two robots kiss.", "pos": ["Two robots are kissing."], "neg": ["Major fires had burned 264,000 acres by early last night.", "The witness, a 27-year-old Kosovan parking attendant with criminal convictions for dishonesty, was paid 10,000 by the News of the World.", "As a matter of urgency, therefore, the staff complement of the Interdepartmental Group attached to the Commission Secretariat should be strengthened at the earliest possible opportunity in order to ensure that all proposals for acts which are general in scope are accompanied, when considered by the College of Commissioners and on the basis of Article 299(2), by a simplified sheet outlining their potential impact.", "A budget line has programmes to de-mining and prevention for years.", "Bulger's brother is now on the agency's ''10 Most Wanted'' list, sought in connection with 21 murders."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Two boys on a couch are playing video games.", "pos": ["Two boys are playing a video game."], "neg": ["If we define a clear framework and constraining for the Member States, the various systems having to satisfy these requirements should have more a long period of setting with the test.", "As there is still a lot of uncertainty, we must know what the scientific facts are and what action must be taken.", "A BMX biker rides along the top of a fence.", "However, we have decided to opt for the European consortium's engine as the best overall solution and due to the substantial price efforts made\".", "A girl is waking up."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman is squeezing a lemon.", "pos": ["A woman is squeezing juice out of a lemon."], "neg": ["In Nigeria, the indigenous people all ijaw Chevron have accused of encouraging the violence against them and to go up to pay Nigerian soldiers to draw on the demonstrators at the naval base of Warri.", "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "Colgate shares closed Monday at $56.30 on the New York Stock Exchange.", "A person is slicing an onion.", "This rule can, moreover, apply to all drugs récréationnelles but dangerous provided that the consumer of drugs is the only run the risks."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man walking down the stairs.", "pos": ["A man walks down a staircase."], "neg": ["The military said it had killed 12 rebels and captured nine in the campaign so far, for the loss of six soldiers wounded.", "A man is cutting grass.", "A woman is applying eye liner.", "The man is throwing knives at a tree.", "The House had also fought, however, for the reduction of the funds available for innovative measures to be offset by means of resources from the flexibility instrument, a demand which is recorded in a declaration on the financial perspective in the Interinstitutional Agreement."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man is riding a horse by a creek.", "pos": ["A man is riding a horse."], "neg": ["A woman is mixing an egg in a bowl.", "Given the criticisms, particularly those of Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer has given a new interpretation: it would now a tax for all users, including the lorry drivers in the UK.", "B5-0794/2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on the kidnap in Colombia of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerillas;", "Finally I welcome the idea of giving us an annual meeting in order to make an assessment of the implementation of the programme.", "I stress this because the market cannot regulate everything and that, in this sense, there cannot be any competition without limits."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman is playing the guitar.", "pos": ["A person is playing a guitar."], "neg": ["A man is playing a guitar.", "A woman is playing a guitar and singing.", "There has been a budget heading for the funding of mine clearance and prevention programmes for many years now.", "France Telecom shares dropped 3.6 percent while Orange surged 13 percent.", "The only instance in which no tax is levied is when the supplier is in a non-EU country and the recipient is in a Member State of the EU."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A kangaroo is eating.", "pos": ["Kangaroo eating."], "neg": ["A cat is walking on hardwood floor.", "I would also have liked to see the report of the Court of Auditors a little more user-friendly and if he had presented a few clear recommendations - for example, one or two recommendations by chapter.", "The task, which is nevertheless capital, has not yet aroused great interest on the part of the public.", "Dotson was arrested July 21 after telling FBI agents he shot Dennehy when Dennehy tried to shoot him, according to the arrest warrant affidavit.", "\"It is safe to assume the Senate is prepared to pass some form of cap,\" King said."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man is driving a car.", "pos": ["A man drives a car."], "neg": ["A person is driving a car.", "A man is riding a horse.", "A man is riding a horse.", "A man is cleaning the windows.", "But Itar-Tass news agency said four of his bodyguards were among those killed by the bomb."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman is grating onion.", "pos": ["A woman grates onions."], "neg": ["The hearing occurred a day after the Pentagon for the first time singled out an officer, Dallager, for not addressing the scandal.", "He said police had identified the bodies of seven of the 14 bombers who launched five almost simultaneous raids Friday night.", "A man is doing exercise.", "The bill says that a woman who undergoes such an abortion couldn't be prosecuted.", "A boy is playing the violin onstage."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman is cracking eggs into a bowl.", "pos": ["A woman is cracking eggs."], "neg": ["Apple Computer's new online music service sold more than 1 million songs during its first week of operation, the company said Monday.", "Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a European continent strong and united.", "A woman is cutting a lemon.", "A poll showed that the FBI bugging of the mayor had given a boost to his reelection effort against GOP opponent Sam Katz.", "Benchmark Treasury 10-year notes gained 17/32, yielding 4.015 percent."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A person is playing the keyboard.", "pos": ["A boy is playing a key-board."], "neg": ["A woman is slicing a meat into pieces.", "\"Further testing is still under way, but at this stage, given the early detection, the outlook in such instances would be positive,\" the specialist said yesterday.", "The lady put the baby int a trashcan.", "Either we are in a club or we are out of it and it is particularly important that we accept this.", "Close cooperation between regional law enforcement agencies and intelligence services was at the heart of the fight against terrorism, he said."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man sliced through a bunch of water bottles with a knife.", "pos": ["A man is slicing a line of water bottles with a knife"], "neg": ["A kangaroo is eating.", "Symptoms include chronic diarrhoea, abdominal pain, weight loss and extreme tiredness.", "Wall Street moved tentatively higher Tuesday as investors weighed a trio of reports showing modest economic improvement against an urge to cash in profits from Monday's big rally.", "A young man is riding a skateboard and jumps onto a sidewalk then off at another curb.", "It must be true brain of coordination of the network of national agencies which, in turn, will have to activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence in food safety at regional level."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man is playing guitar.", "pos": ["A man plays a guitar."], "neg": ["A woman is cutting through an onion.", "A man is shooting a gun.", "Plofsky said the commission won't investigate because the three-year statute of limitations has expired.", "A man is opening a package containing headphones.", "Kollar-Kotelly has scheduled another antitrust settlement compliance hearing for January."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man is playing a musical keyboard.", "pos": ["A man is playing a keyboard piano."], "neg": ["A man seasoning quail.", "Shares of Allergan were up 14 cents at $78.40 in late trading on the New York Stock Exchange.", "The labelling of beef which has been decided, which is a minimum and labelling which is in force for two and a half months, does not properly to trace the origin of the animals and we have banned quite late specified risk materials.", "People with the same business affairs in common are peacefully bound to one another.", "A woman is slicing a potato."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A person is combing a cat hair.", "pos": ["A person is brushing a cat."], "neg": ["The right for a government to draw aside its constitution arbitrarily is the definition characteristic of a tyranny.", "You do not even intend to incorporate it into the Treaty, evidence indeed that this text, this exercise was always destined to be laid aside.", "The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX rose 6.48 points, or 0.66 percent, to 990.51.", "A woman is chopping herbs.", "We have started to have trade on this issue, where it appears that all Member States wish to maintain this ceiling after enlargement."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman cuts up broccoli.", "pos": ["A woman is cutting broccoli."], "neg": ["Texas Instruments climbed $US1.37 to $US19.25 and Novellus Systems advanced $US1.76 to $US36.31, each having been raised to \"overweight\" by Lehman.", "Reiterating the calls made by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000, what initiatives does the Presidency of the European Council propose to take with a view to playing a more active role so as to guarantee the full and complete application of the UN peace plan?", "A woman cuts up a vegetable.", "On Sunday, a U.S. soldier was killed and another injured in southern Iraq when a munitions dump exploded.", "A women slicing lemons."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The baby is laughing and crawling.", "pos": ["A baby is laughing and crawling on the floor."], "neg": ["A man is playing a violin.", "A woman is slicing an onion.", "Someone is cleaning a animal.", "\"We've put a lot of effort and energy into improving our patching progress, probably later than we should have.", "A man is buttering bread."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man plays a trumpet.", "pos": ["A man is playing the trumpet."], "neg": ["A man is playing a musical instrument.", "Douglas Robinson, a senior vice president of finance, will take over as chief financial officer on an interim basis.", "A chef is peeling a potato.", "A man is giving a lecture on a podium.", "A person is slicing onions."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman is shooting a gun.", "pos": ["A woman shoots a shotgun."], "neg": ["A woman fires a shotgun.", "If we define a clear framework and binding on the Member States, the different systems to meet these requirements should have a longer period of being tested.", "\"There is no doubt about the chemical programme, biological programme, indeed nuclear programme, indeed all that was documented by the UN,\" he said.", "All those who are at present engaged in illicit work would obtain work with decent social conditions.", "And I am telling you loud and clear: Kostunica must be given his chance here and I therefore hope that he will give amnesty in the next couple of weeks or months, but meanwhile, I do want the introduction of those two new budget lines, democratisation and reconstruction, to be accompanied by political conditions, both from a political and budgetary perspective."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Someone slices a bottle with a sword.", "pos": ["A man breaks a bottle with a sword."], "neg": ["Mr Gayssot, Greek ships have sunk without warning, when there were no storms in the vicinity.", "We should be pleased that Parliament has succeeded in bringing together a large majority in favour of greater transparency.", "This rule can apply besides to all récréationnelles but dangerous drugs in so far as the consumer of drug is the only one to run risks.", "\"Americans don't cut and run, we have to see this misadventure through,\" she said.", "People with the same business affairs in common are peacefully bound to one another."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The man is peeling an apple.", "pos": ["A man peels an apple."], "neg": ["It crosses the 8 January of this year. it is to have a Union of Tunisian opponents in France, which Moreover it.", "A search for three missing teenagers uncovered at least two bodies buried beneath freshly poured concrete in the basement of a house, authorities said Wednesday.", "KEDO Spokesman, Roland Tricot said: \"The executive board decided to refer this question to capitals.", "The resolution on the Nice Summit, which has just been voted, does not reflect it.", "I have also voted against a text that calls for the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the future Treaty to be adopted in Nice."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The puppy tried to get out of the tub.", "pos": ["A puppy is trying to get out of a bathtub."], "neg": ["A puppy is trying to come out from the sink.", "Instead he left the courtroom a free man after authorities dismissed criminal charges.", "On the contrary, the power of the national democracies is being reduced by the further restriction of the right of veto and by the fact that the European Parliament is being given more power.", "Relief is in sight for Texans saddled with skyrocketing homeowners insurance premiums.", "A woman is slicing pumpkin."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The man is eating.", "pos": ["A man is eating food."], "neg": ["London-based NCRI official Ali Safavi told Reuters: \"We condemn this raid, which is in our view illegal and morally and politically unjustifiable.\"", "Best Minister, Scrimshaw, and Ten Most Wanted all had workouts on Monday morning.", "The royal household was bracing itself for any more revelations in A Royal Duty, based on the former servant’s time with Diana, Princess of Wales.", "A woman is cutting an onion.", "The Greek ships have sunk, without there being the slightest storm in its neck of the woods, Mr Gayssot."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A little boy hits a golf ball.", "pos": ["The little boy swung at the golf ball."], "neg": ["A person is descaling a fish.", "This year the Audubon Society once again hosts its annual Christmas Bird Count.", "If we want to help Indonesia, we must speak now with money and concrete action, and not just with words.", "The weekend arrest of Russia's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, chief executive of oil major YUKOS, on charges of fraud and tax evasion unnerved financial markets.", "The two Democrats on the five-member FCC panel held a news conference to sway opinion against Powell."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A cat swings on a ceiling fan.", "pos": ["A cat is spun around by a ceiling fan."], "neg": ["Shares of Fox Entertainment Group Inc., News Corp.'s U.S. media and entertainment arm, fell 45 cents to $26.85 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.", "Two women are slicing some lemons.", "Designed to compete with Microsoft Corp., Project Mad Hatter is being positioned by Sun as a cheaper, secure alternative desktop operating system to Microsoft's various desktop offerings.", "This House but also fought so that this reduction in funds allocated to the innovative actions is offset by the use of framework of flexibility, as defined in a statement on the financial perspective.", "The recent turnaround in the stock market and an easing in unemployment claims \"may signal more favorable economic times ahead,\" she said."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The woman is dicing onions.", "pos": ["A woman is cutting an onion."], "neg": ["A man is playing a flute.", "A man is reading an email.", "Through Sunday, Sept. 21, Site Finder has been visited over 65 million times by Internet users.", "The Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DJ: news, chart, profile) rose 56 points, or 0.7 percent, to 8,588.", "The European Commission, the EU's powerful executive body, described the move as \"legally unwarranted, economically unfounded and politically unhelpful.\""], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A monkey is brushing a bull dog.", "pos": ["A monkey brushes a dog."], "neg": ["When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to apply the precautionary principle.", "A man is dancing on the road.", "Spain has done a magnificent job in turning round the difficult neighbourly relations which Europe and North Africa and Spain and Morocco have suffered during the course of history.", "My party has profound reservations about the regulation of the sale of consumer goods by means of Community legislation, as it expresses reservations about the concept of mutual recognition of standards.", "Unfortunately the final objective of a European Constitution would be exactly the opposite and of course we cannot agree."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A person is slicing onions.", "pos": ["Someone is slicing an onion."], "neg": ["Reuters witnesses said public squares were packed with crying children and people left homeless, huddled in blankets to protect them from the cold.", "We can, in fact, want more and better, but I believe that it is a good start.", "He then stabbed two passersby as he fled along a promenade by the Mediterranean Sea.", "Investigators uncovered a 4-inch bone fragment from beneath the concrete slab Thursday, but it turned out to be an animal bone, authorities said.", "The aim of the annual review is to identify such potential improvements."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man is eating a bowl of cereal.", "pos": ["The man is eating cereal."], "neg": ["Thirty-four of the men have been arrested and the others are being sought, US Attorney Daniel Bogden said yesterday.", "A man is cutting tomatoes.", "A man wearing a hard hat removes his glasses as he speaks.", "The aim of the annual review is to identify such potential improvements.", "The commission estimated California lost $937 million to corporate tax shelters in 2001."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman is bathing into bath-tub.", "pos": ["A woman is taking a bath."], "neg": ["Fifty-seven senators, including 24 Republicans, have signed the letter.", "The two Democrats on the five-member FCC held a news conference to sway opinion against Powell and the panel's two other Republicans.", "It is unlikely that the planned protection of the universal provision of services by means of a compensatory fund, as a result of which private profits are ploughed back into public services, will last.", "I find it rather odd that people are already trying to tie the Commission's hands in relation to the proposal for a directive, while at the same calling on it to present a Green Paper on the current situation with regard to optional and supplementary health insurance schemes.", "Morales, who pleaded guilty in July, expressed \"sincere regret and remorse\" for his crimes."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A motorcyclist crashes on his motorcycle.", "pos": ["A person crashes on a motorcycle."], "neg": ["A woman is stirring rice in a pot.", "A man is chopping butter into a container.", "The cat tried to eat the corn on the cob.", "Those which refuse the reinforced cooperation enjoy the same freedom of movement as the passengers of the back seat of a car.", "A man is carrying another man over his shoulder."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A person pours some rice pudding into a bowl.", "pos": ["The lady poured the rice pudding into a bowl."], "neg": ["Secondly, say no to the big bang idea of incorporating candidate countries simultaneously as a large group, since that would militate against the principle that each country should be admitted on its own merits.", ". The British Labour Members of the PSE Group welcomes the support given to the contribution to the work of the IGC on closer cooperation, without adhere entirely with all the details of this.", "A cat is crawling upside down under the couch.", "Families stuck on the highway were being urged to remain in their cars, and to use their cell phones only in case of emergency.", "Rich media doubled its share, increasing from 3% in Q2 2002 to 6% in Q2 2003."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man stares out a window.", "pos": ["A man looks out the window."], "neg": ["On my own behalf and on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries, I would ask you, Madam President, to send Parliament' s condolences to the families of the victims and to the local authorities in both Brittany and in Marín, Galicia, from where the majority of the victims came.", "Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda.", "A woman is peeling a potato.", "The man is playing the guitar.", "The technology-packed Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> dropped 37.78 points, or 1.94 percent, to 1,912.36."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The lady put the baby int a trashcan.", "pos": ["A woman puts a baby in a trash can."], "neg": ["Klarman was arrested by FBI agents in the Hamptons, an exclusive summer resort enclave east of New York City.", "Dotson was arrested July 21 after telling FBI agents he shot Dennehy when Dennehy tried to shoot him, according to the arrest warrant affidavit.", "The woman is shooting a machine gun.", "Mr President, I voted for the García-Margallo y Marfil report on the taxation of electronic commerce.", "The lady made some slices on the shrimp."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man is dancing on the ceiling of a room.", "pos": ["A man is dancing upside-down on the ceiling."], "neg": ["A woman is lying in a raft.", "A man in a hat is playing a harp.", "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected ImClone's original application in December 2001, saying the trial had been sloppily conducted.", "The heatwave was due to a mass of hot, dry air from the southeast, said Mario Almeida of Portugal's weather service.", "A woman slices a fish."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The deer jumped over the fence.", "pos": ["A deer jumps over a cyclone fence."], "neg": ["A man is dancing.", "You do not even want to incorporate into the Treaty, which shows that this text should be set aside.", "The Nasdaq composite index advanced 20.59, or 1.3 percent, to 1,616.50, after gaining 5.7 percent last week.", "In CNN's latest move to rejuvenate ratings, the network has ousted Teya Ryan, general manager of U.S. programming.", "There is, of course, one crucial event, namely that a start has been made with category four and with looking at ways how we will deal with it, but it is not yet entirely clear whether we have managed to resolve this, partly because the Council refuses to have sufficient input in the attendant thought processes."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman is dicing some peeled potatoes cut into thick strips.", "pos": ["A woman is chopping a peeled potato into slices."], "neg": ["British Airways plans to retire its seven Concordes at the end of October.", "Greek ships were sunk, without any storm around, Mr Gayssot.", "The lesson that this House in this morning's debate must learn is that we are forced to conclude that the maritime laws are all over the world, in a state of chaos, and that we must set about the task to sort all this out.", "Dell's OpenManage software includes Dell Update Packages with SMS to help automate the management of server hardware, applications and operating systems patches with a single tool.", "A boy is playing a key-board."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man plays the keyboard with his nose.", "pos": ["The man is playing the piano with his nose."], "neg": ["State Education Commissioner Kent King said Wednesday that the scores on the Missouri Assessment Program tests disappointed him.", "One could indeed wish for more and for improvement, but I honestly believe that we have made a good start.", "A woman is hitting a man.", "A person wipes butter on a tray.", "Doctors concluded Erbitux, the cancer drug that enmeshed ImClone Systems in an insider trading scandal, worked just as well as an earlier company-sponsored study said it did."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man is lifting weights.", "pos": ["A man is lifting a barbell."], "neg": ["A man is chopping egg plant.", "A woman is exercising her abs.", "A man is playing the flute.", "A man is riding a horse in the desert.", "Given the criticisms, particularly those of Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer has given a new interpretation: it would now a tax for all users, including the lorry drivers in the UK."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man is firing a shot gun.", "pos": ["A man shoots a shotgun."], "neg": ["Firstly, simplification and clarification of the Treaties.", "Secondly, say no to the big bang idea of incorporating candidate countries simultaneously as a large group, since that would militate against the principle that each country should be admitted on its own merits.", "Spain has developed a remarkably positive the difficult that always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "Together, we will find creative ways to communicate the unique strengths of Kmart to the 'new America' consumer.\"", "I wonder if the Commissioner has planned any steps in this respect to demonstrate that we really do consider Kostunica to be the only lawfully elected representative of the Serbian people, and the only partner with whom the European Union is involved as from today."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The man is shaking hands with other men.", "pos": ["A man is shaking another mans hand."], "neg": ["A man is coming out into the water.", "That is what we have done: we have avoided a budgetary crisis by going to Article 272; the financial perspective has been maintained, even though we have used the flexibility instrument.", "In that case, the court held that Cincinnati had violated the First Amendment in banning only the advertising pamphlets in the interest of aesthetics.", "It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union.", "A man is speaking on a stage."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A target is being hit with gun fire.", "pos": ["The target was being shot with bullets."], "neg": ["A man is slicing potato.", "A woman is slicing ginger.", "The man lifted barbells.", "A Microsoft spokesman was not immediately available to comment.", "A man is cutting a paper."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man puts some cheese on a pizza.", "pos": ["A man is sprinkling shredded cheese on a pizza."], "neg": ["Six new Krispy Kreme stores were opened in the first quarter, bringing the total number of stores to 282.", "Close cooperation between regional law enforcement agencies and intelligence services was at the heart of the fight against terrorism, he said.", "Apple Computer Inc. said Monday it exceeded record industry expectations by selling more than 1 million songs since the launch of its online music store a week ago.", "PeopleSoft will commit $863 million in cash and issue 52.6 million new shares, the companies said.", "Let us, as a Europe of 15 Member States, organise ourselves in order to be able to welcome those countries who are knocking at the door into the fold under respectable conditions."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The boy played his trumpet.", "pos": ["A boy is playing the trumpet."], "neg": ["This could also apply to all drugs but dangerous insofar as the consumer of drugs is the only to run risks.", "The right of a government arbitrarily to set aside its own constitution is the defining characteristic of a tyranny.", "The only case for which no tax is still seen is that of a provision in the European Community from a third country.", "I think we made the right case and did the right thing.\"", "It is unlikely that the planned protection of the universal provision of services by means of a compensatory fund, as a result of which private profits are ploughed back into public services, will last."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A band is performing on a stage.", "pos": ["A band is playing and singing on a stage."], "neg": ["In that case, the court held that Cincinnati had violated the First Amendment in banning only the advertising pamphlets in the interest of aesthetics.", "Question No 6 by (H-0886/00):", "A kitten is eating its food from a plate.", "A man is dancing.", "I urge that to seize this motion, this invitation, this request of dialogue, to give further and to make sure that, together with this Assembly, these relics of a nationalist might be."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A person is picking a komodo dragon and putting it in a box.", "pos": ["A person is placing a baby komodo dragon into a container."], "neg": ["A man is playing a piano.", "A girl is riding a scooter.", "The hearing occurred a day after the Pentagon for the first time singled out an officer, Dallager, for not addressing the scandal.", "Analysts had been expecting a net loss of 54 cents a share, according to Thomson First Call.", "\"I notice a mood change in their priorities,\" said one Iraqi politician after meeting with Mr. Bremer."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A big turtle is walking.", "pos": ["The tortoise is walking."], "neg": ["Do you think that the model of the \"-\" - namely the majority - will be in the future as a means of taking in ignoring the European institutions and to a new institution, or a new Group, to be able to bypass the rule of unanimity in the Council?", "A man is playing a guitar.", "U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman kicks off the three-day Ministerial Conference and Expo on Agricultural Science and Technology on Monday.", "According to the Census Bureau, the Hispanic population increased by 9.8 percent from the April 2000 census figures.", "Negotiators said Friday they made progress during their latest round of free-trade negotiations between the United States and five Central American countries this week in Houston."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man is cutting a rope with a sword.", "pos": ["The man slced through a thick rope with a sword."], "neg": ["Police believe Wilson then shot Jennie Mae Robinson once in the head before turning the gun on herself.", "The European Council will also discuss the state of progress of the accession negotiations and hence of the enlargement.", "That is why I also believe that this reconciliation can take, and the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the issue of universities and many other problems, needs visible signs of success and a strong support, otherwise the peace threatened in the region as a whole.", "This is our priority struggle for the affirmation of fundamental rights has found expression in political choices.", "The man is throwing knives at a tree."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "American flag is waving.", "pos": ["A American flag is blowing in the wind."], "neg": ["The lesson for us within this House in its debate this morning is that we are forced to conclude that the maritime laws are in the world, in a state of control, and that we must get down to the task to put its house in order.", "In Nigeria, Chevron has been accused by the All-Ijaw indigenous people of instigating violence against them and actually paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot protesters at the Warri naval base.", "The girls danced on the stage.", "Wall Street moved tentatively higher Tuesday as investors weighed a trio of reports showing modest economic improvement against an urge to cash in profits from Monday's big rally.", "\"These changes may affect a large number of existing Web pages,\" the statement continued."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man pours rice into a pot.", "pos": ["A man is putting rice in a bowling pot."], "neg": ["A man is cutting tomatoes into pieces.", "Its safe to assume the Senate is prepared to pass some form of a cap....The level of it is to be debated.", "A dog is opening a fridge.", "Excluding the charges, analysts, on average, expected a loss of 11 cents a share.", "Trouble flared when at least four North Korean reporters rushed from the Taegu media centre to confront a dozen activists protesting against human rights abuses in the North."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The woman droppped eggplant into the pan.", "pos": ["A woman puts chopped eggplant into a skillet."], "neg": ["In that case, the court held that the city of Cincinnati had violated the First Amendment in banning, in the interest of aesthetics, only the advertising pamphlets.", "The film is the second of a trilogy, which will wrap up in November with The Matrix Revolutions.", "A man is dancing.", "A man is talking.", "If we want to help Indonesia we must act now with money and deeds, not merely words."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man is preparing a hanging rope.", "pos": ["A man is tying a noose."], "neg": ["I also voted against a text which requires the integration of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the future Treaty which will be adopted in Nice.", "It is recognised that the knowledge of foreign languages is a prerequisite for mobility.", "Tito Barbini, a regional minister for agriculture in Tuscany, Italy, criticized the absence Tuesday in Sacramento.", "This is a vague area, and it is possible that more restrictive provisions may also remain in force, and this is one point in respect of which we have tabled amendments.", "A man is holding a frog."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A person is scrubbing a zucchini.", "pos": ["A woman is scrubbing a zucchini with a vegetable brush."], "neg": ["With the Expose (ex-poh-SAY) feature, all the open windows on the desktop immediately shrink to fit on the screen but are still clear enough to identify.", "Crews worked to install a new culvert and repave the highway so motorists could use the eastbound lanes for travel.", "A woman is ridint a horse.", "(Parliament accepted the oral amendment)", "A man is kicking a soccer ball."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman with a knife is slicing a pepper.", "pos": ["A women slicing green pepper."], "neg": ["A man is performing tricks with a soccer ball.", "The Bishop of Armidale, Peter Brain, was forthright.", "A man is laying on the ground shooting a rifle.", "The company said it would cut the wholesale price of most top-line CDs to $9.09 from $12.02.", "Someone is cutting a piece of meat."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The people threw the dummy over the cliff edge.", "pos": ["Some people are throwing a dummy off a cliff."], "neg": ["Shares of Allergan were up 14 cents at $78.40 in late trading on the New York Stock Exchange.", "As long ago as 1996 the European Parliament came out in favour of a ban on the use of meat-and-bone meal throughout the European Union in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only.", "This Parliament however also fought so that this reduction of the funds allocated with the innovative measures is compensated by the use of the framework of flexibilisation, defined in a declaration on the financial perspective.", "These objectives, the primary objective and the secondary objectives, will represent the stone of hitting enabling us to judge the concrete proposals presented by the Commission.", "Garner said self-proclaimed Baghdad mayor Mohammed Mohsen Zubaidi was released 48 hours after his detention in late April."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman cuts a pineapple.", "pos": ["A woman is slicing a pineapple into pieces."], "neg": ["The driver of the truck escaped and is now being sought by the police, Supoyo said.", "A man is playing a ukulele.", "A cat, perched on a table, looks out the window.", "A man is finely chopping a green substance.", "A dog is eating some water melon."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A person is adding oil in the pan.", "pos": ["The cook pouring oil into the pan."], "neg": ["A small dog laying on the bed.", "The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC lost 2 points, or 0.18 percent, to 1,649.", "Women are talking.", "Douglas Robinson, a senior vice president of finance, will take over as chief financial officer on an interim basis.", "The woman is putting makeup on the man."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man is mowing grass.", "pos": ["A guy is mowing the lawn."], "neg": ["Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar dedicated to equal opportunities reinforces the integrated approach of equality by gender mainstreaming and specific guidelines.", "The bird ate the food in the tree from a bowl.", "It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union.", "I find that France exemplary committed itself to take this step.", "Thank you very much, Commissioner."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The man drilled holes into the wood.", "pos": ["A man drills wood."], "neg": ["We have started to have exchanges on this issue, it emerges that all the Member States wish to the maintenance of this ceiling after enlargement.", "From the first discussions on this dossier, which were held at European level at the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission has given a commitment to the Member States to pursue a course of action designed to develop what we might call a European police culture, grounded in the highest standards of duty, respect for the rights and freedoms of our citizens and efficiency in the fight against crime.", "Firstly, simplification and clarification of the Treaties.", "The cook pouring oil into the pan.", "It is on trial on 8 January. He is accused of having participated in a meeting of Tunisian opponents in France, which incidentally it excludes."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A rabbit is sniffing and pawing a stuffed rabbit.", "pos": ["A live rabbit is playing with a stuffed animal bunny."], "neg": ["The new worm affects these Windows systems: 2000, XP, NT 4.0 and Server 2003.", "It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union.", "Another 152,054 are from IP services company NTT/Verio, and 129,378 from InfoSpace, the survey found.", "These objectives, the main one and the secondary ones, will be the touchstone by which the concrete proposals submitted by the Commission must be judged.", "The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was off 58.69 points, or 0.64 percent, at 9,137.86."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man is taking out the insides of a green pepper.", "pos": ["Someone is removing the seeds from a bell pepper."], "neg": ["It is a matter of the utmost importance and yet has curiously attracted very little public attention.", "\"MediaMax performs EXACTLY as \"advertised\" to the companies who purchased it,\" Jacobs said in the statement.", "A woman is squeezing some cucumber slices.", "The very worst situation is when the women concerned also come from distant countries, having taken the work on out of desperation because they have no other way of continuing to provide for themselves.", "Allegiant shares rose $4, or $17.2 percent, to $27.43 in Thursday morning trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A kitten is eating its food from a plate.", "pos": ["A kitten eats some food."], "neg": ["From the first discussions on this dossier, which were held at European level at the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission has given a commitment to the Member States to pursue a course of action designed to develop what we might call a European police culture, grounded in the highest standards of duty, respect for the rights and freedoms of our citizens and efficiency in the fight against crime.", "The meat, poultry, butter, cheese and nuts were impounded a year ago at a LaGrou Cold Storage warehouse in Chicago.", "A woman is slicing an onion.", "Monkeypox is usually found only in central and western Africa.", "The right of a government arbitrarily to set aside its own constitution is the defining characteristic of a tyranny."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The person is starting a fire.", "pos": ["A person makes fire."], "neg": ["Girls are walking on the stage.", "A man is dancing.", "A kitten is playing with a blue rope toy.", "Do you think that the Austrian model, i.e. bilateral majority resolutions, will be used in future as a way of passing resolutions which bypass the European institutions and of forming a new institution or a new group in order to circumvent unanimity in the Council?", "Lastly, and it is there a subject more discussed, the commission invited with strength to make use of the procedure accelerated to put in uvre this legislation."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The person is removing the scales from the fish.", "pos": ["A person is descaling a fish."], "neg": ["Given this situation, there is an inescapable need for greater involvement and greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment.", "Today, Dean ends his four-day, 10-city \"Sleepless Summer\" tour in Chicago and New York.", "Supermarket chains are accusing union leaders of breaking off contract talks prematurely over the weekend as grocery clerks gear up for a possible strike.", "The woman droppped eggplant into the pan.", "The two invading countries later fell out, and have since backed rival factions."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man makes a call on a cell phone.", "pos": ["A man is making a phone call."], "neg": ["A man is slicing a bun.", "This is a disgrace when we think that the European Union presents itself as the champion of the modernisation of economic life!", "Two men fistfight in a ring.", "Spain has done a magnificent job in turning round the difficult neighbourly relations which Europe and North Africa and Spain and Morocco have suffered during the course of history.", "Secondly, it is necessary to say \"no\" to the concept to accept at the same time an important Group of countries, because this would be in contradiction with the principle of the admission of each country according to its merits."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman is applying cosmetics to her face.", "pos": ["A woman is putting on makeup."], "neg": ["The report aims to identify such improvements.", "The New York Mets then selected outfielder Lastings Milledge from Lakewood Ranch High School in Florida.", "A man is dancing.", "Worst of all, I believe, is having to issue a warning that a court judgment in their favour may just be a set of comforting words and make no real difference in their lives.", "The privately held Google is believed to be profitable."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The man lifted barbells.", "pos": ["A man lifts weights."], "neg": ["Redman has allowed two earned runs or less in six of his nine starts.", "Druce is still being held at the prison and is now in isolation, she said.", "A boy rode his bike on top of a metal fence.", "He said FDA hopes Congress and the courts will bring clarity to the situation and some financial relief to consumers — perhaps before the 2004 elections.", "It will also help reform the Royal Solomon Islands Police, strengthen the courts and prisons system and protect key institutions such as the Finance Ministry from intimidation."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A cat gets stuck on a moving ceiling fan.", "pos": ["A cat is swinging on a fan."], "neg": ["The meeting was scheduled to end Wednesday night, with attendees approving resolutions that express the denomination's view on issues but that are not binding on churches.", "A woman is playing a guitar.", "The company posted a profit of $54.3 million, or 22 cents per share, in the year-ago period.", "One could indeed wish for more and for improvement, but I honestly believe that we have made a good start.", "(Parliament accepted the oral amendment)"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A woman rapidly fires a handgun.", "pos": ["A woman is shooting off a gun."], "neg": ["I know that in France, the principle of slaughter of whole herd has been implemented and that this is not the best way to combat this phenomenon.", "These objectives, the main one and the secondary ones, will be the touchstone by which the concrete proposals submitted by the Commission must be judged.", "Those who refuse and enjoy the same freedom of movement as the passengers out of a car.", "McGill also detailed the hole that had been cut in the Caprice's trunk.", "It must be the true brain of coordination of the network of the national agencies which, in their turn, will have to activate and coordinate a network of centers of excellence of food safety at the regional level."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A boy plays violin on stage.", "pos": ["A boy is onstage playing the violin."], "neg": ["A man is eating bread.", "I wonder if the Commissioner has planned any steps in this respect to demonstrate that we really do consider Kostunica to be the only lawfully elected representative of the Serbian people, and the only partner with whom the European Union is involved as from today.", "I am a bit of him now to compel the Commission to a motion for a resolution and ask him in a time to establish a Green Paper on the current State of voluntary insurance and health insurance.", "Navistar shares rose a penny to $41.64 at late afternoon on the New York Stock Exchange after earlier falling as low as $39.93.", "The debate is closed."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A cat and a ferret are playing.", "pos": ["A ferret and kitten play together."], "neg": ["Florida's Speaker of the House Johnnie Byrd, is expected to introduce ''Terri's Bill'' during a one-day special session of the state legislature being held today in Tallahassee.", "The man sang on stage into the microphone.", "The man is playing the guitar.", "The bank's shares fell 45 cents in trading yesterday to $91.51 per share.", "A person pours cooking oil into a pot."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A lady mixed up a meat mixture in bowl.", "pos": ["A woman is stirring meat in a bowl."], "neg": ["This could also apply to all drugs but dangerous insofar as the consumer of drugs is the only to run risks.", "Douglas Robinson, a senior vice president of finance, will take over as chief financial officer on an interim basis.", "A man rises from a swamp.", "Two men fistfight in a ring.", "A woman is abusing her child."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The bird is taking a bath under the faucet.", "pos": ["A bird is bathing in a sink."], "neg": ["The spacecraft is scheduled to blast off as early as tomorrow or as late as Friday from the Jiuquan launching site in the Gobi Desert.", "B5-0794 / 2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on Colombia removal of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerrilla;", "The missing workers, two men and a woman, were inside the building when the first blast occurred, Mayor Joe T. Parker said.", "He explained that he found antetonitrus when he came to Wits in 2001 while a post-doctoral research assistant at Bristol University in Britain.", "If employment is the political priority of the Union, fisheries, as an economic sector, cannot remain on the sidelines."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A man plays the guitar and sings.", "pos": ["A man is singing and playing a guitar."], "neg": ["Do you think that the Austrian model, i.e. bilateral majority resolutions, will be used in future as a way of passing resolutions which bypass the European institutions and of forming a new institution or a new group in order to circumvent unanimity in the Council?", "This is why I also think that this reconciliation can hold. However, the government, which very courageously found a solution with the question of the universities and many other problems, needs visible signs of the success as well as strong support, under penalty of seeing the peace threatened as a whole of the area.", "A man is speaking to an audience.", "A man is dangling a mouse near a snake.", "Vice President Dick Cheney and Mississippi Republican gubernatorial candidate Haley Barbour acknowledge the cheering crowd."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The man is using a sledghammer to break the concrete block that is on the other man.", "pos": ["A man breaks a slab of concrete that is lying on a prone man with a sledge hammer."], "neg": ["The other point of view, illustrated by the initial matter of the rapporteur and shared per number of Members, consists in promoting the regulations and the codes of conduct necessary to found, between insurers, the forms of mutualisation of the costs guaranteeing to all the supply of an high quality of care and to counter the risks to see developing discriminatory practices and a risk selection and customers.", "\"It's very difficult to do large syndicated loans in Japan,\" where there is a lack of expertise, says one banker.", "The man did pushups on a wall.", "Spain has developed a remarkably positive way the difficult neighbourhood that has always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "Approval of the Minutes of the previous sitting"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The lady put the dried noodles in the hot water to cook.", "pos": ["A woman places a container of noodles in a pan of water."], "neg": ["A little girl is playing a grand piano on stage.", "A guy is peeling a potato.", "Tail wagging, Abbey trotted on stage with Conway before a crowd of more than 10,000 attendees at PeopleSoft's annual customer conference at the Anaheim Convention Center.", "Doctors concluded Erbitux, the cancer drug that enmeshed ImClone Systems in an insider trading scandal, worked just as well as an earlier company-sponsored study said it did.", "A baby is playing with a dog."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Two kids are playing in a swimming pool with a green colored crocodile float.", "pos": ["Two kids push an inflatable crocodile around in a pool."], "neg": ["Board Chancellor Robert Bennett declined to comment on personnel matters Tuesday.", "Do you think that the Austrian model, i.e. bilateral majority resolutions, will be used in future as a way of passing resolutions which bypass the European institutions and of forming a new institution or a new group in order to circumvent unanimity in the Council?", "Faced with criticisms, particularly those of Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer has given a new interpretation: it is now a matter of resources for all users, including the drivers of heavy goods vehicles.", "If we define a clear, binding framework for the Member States, then there should be a longer evaluation period for the various support systems required to satisfy these requirements.", "Firstly, that of a simplification of the Treaties."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "In Nigeria, Chevron has been accused by the All-Ijaw indigenous people of instigating violence against them and actually paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot protesters at the Warri naval base.", "pos": ["In Nigeria, the whole ijaw indigenous showed Chevron to encourage the violence against them and of up to pay Nigerian soldiers to shoot the demonstrators at the naval base from Warri."], "neg": ["In Nigeria, the All-Ijaw natives showed Chevron to incite with the violence in their opposition and of going until paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot at the demonstrators at the naval base from Warri.", "In Nigeria, encouraging the violence in their employment and go up to pay soldiers to draw on the demonstrators at the basis of warri.", "Stefani's remarks further stoked tension after Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi last week compared a German member of the European Parliament to a Nazi concentration camp guard.", "I also voted against a text which calls for the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the eventual Treaty of Nice.", "Customers that pay the $1,219 entrance fee get SMS 2003 with 10 device client access licenses."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I know that in France they have had whole herd slaughter and this does not seem to be the best way forward.", "pos": ["I know that in France, the principle of slaughter of whole herd has been implemented and that this is not the best way to combat this phenomenon."], "neg": ["I know that in France, the principle of the whole and that it does not seem to be the best way to combat this phenomenon.", "I know that in France, the principle of slaughter of the entire herd has been implemented and that this does not seem to be the best way to combat this phenomenon.", "A woman is adding oil on fishes.", "Hilsenrath and Klarman each were indicted on three counts of securities fraud.", "A budget line, programmes and of many years."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Unfortunately, the ultimate objective of a European Constitution would be precisely the opposite, and so, of course, we cannot vote for it.", "pos": ["Unfortunately the final objective of a European Constitution would be exactly the opposite and obviously we cannot approve it."], "neg": ["A man is playing a flute.", "On the contrary, the power of the national democracies is being reduced by the further restriction of the right of veto and by the fact that the European Parliament is being given more power.", "Schofield got Toepfer to admit on cross-examination that she ignored many of O'Donnell's suggestions and projects.", "One could indeed wish for more and for improvement, but I honestly believe that we have made a good start.", "Meningitis is an infection of the spinal cord fluid and the tissue around the brain."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The right of a government arbitrarily to set aside its own constitution is the defining characteristic of a tyranny.", "pos": ["The right for a government to draw aside its constitution arbitrarily is the definition characteristic of a tyranny."], "neg": ["The bird ate the food in the tree from a bowl.", "\"It's very difficult to do large syndicated loans in Japan,\" where there is a lack of expertise, says one banker.", "It happening in trial on 8 January. he is accused of taking part in a meeting of Tunisian opponents in France, what to do deny it.", "A woman is wearing headphones.", "The comedic mimes performed on stage."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The House had also fought, however, for the reduction of the funds available for innovative measures to be offset by means of resources from the flexibility instrument, a demand which is recorded in a declaration on the financial perspective in the Interinstitutional Agreement.", "pos": ["This Parliament has also fought for this reduction in the funds available for innovative actions should be compensated for by the use of the framework of flexibility, defined in a statement on the financial perspective."], "neg": ["This Parliament has, however, also fought for this reduction in the funds allocated to the innovative actions to be compensated for by the use of framework of flexibility, defined in a statement on the financial perspective.", "This Parliament however also fought so that this reduction of the funds allocated with the innovative measures is compensated by the use of the framework of flexibilisation, defined in a declaration on the financial perspective.", "This Parliament has, however, also fought for this reduction of funds for innovative actions should be compensated for by the use of flexibility, defined in a statement on the financial perspective.", "This Parliament has, however, also for this Fund actions by the use of framework, defined in a statement on the financial perspective.", "This Parliament has, however, also fought for this reduction in the funds allocated to the innovative actions should be compensated for by the use of flexible framework, set out in a statement on the financial perspective."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The right of a government arbitrarily to set aside its own constitution is the defining characteristic of a tyranny.", "pos": ["The right for a government to dismiss arbitrarily its constitution is the definition of a characteristic tyranny."], "neg": ["\"I really liked him and I still do,\" Cohen Alon told the Herald yesterday.", "A person wipes butter on a tray.", "The scientist also quarantined himself at home as soon as he developed SARS symptoms, officials said.", "\"This is an easy case in my view and wholly without merit, both factually and legally.\"", "The man is throwing knives at a tree."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "One could indeed wish for more and for improvement, but I honestly believe that we have made a good start.", "pos": ["They can in fact wish to more and better, but I think that it is a good start."], "neg": ["They will keep the pressure on, and they are strengthening their position with the revenue they are generating from delivering mail above 150 grams.", "I stress this point because the market cannot regulate everything, which is why competition is not completely unrestricted, nor should it be.", "A man is firing a rifle.", "Chante Jawaon Mallard, 27, is charged with murder and tampering with evidence.", "A woman is playing a guitar and singing."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It must genuinely be a centre for coordinating the network of national agencies which, in turn, must activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence for food safety at the level of the individual regions.", "pos": ["It should be the real coordination of the network of national agencies which, in turn, will speed up and a network of centres of excellence of food at regional level."], "neg": ["By state law, 911 calls are not public information and were not released.", "As there is still a lot of uncertainty, we must know what the scientific facts are and what action must be taken.", "The only instance in which no tax is levied is when the supplier is in a non-EU country and the recipient is in a Member State of the EU.", "Rapper C-Murder has been convicted of second-degree murder, a crime that carries an automatic life sentence, in the shooting death of a 16-year-old inside a Jefferson Parish nightclub.", "A woman is swimming."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On my own behalf and on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries, I would ask you, Madam President, to send Parliament' s condolences to the families of the victims and to the local authorities in both Brittany and in Marín, Galicia, from where the majority of the victims came.", "pos": ["Madam President, I would ask you, on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries and in my own name, to send a message of condolence on the part of Parliament to the families of the victims and the local authorities of Brittany as Marín, city of Galicia, where originating from most of the victims."], "neg": ["You do not even want to incorporate into the Treaty, that proves that this text should be set aside.", "Consumer groups are against the changes, saying they hurt individuality in markets.", "You do not even intend to incorporate it into the Treaty, evidence indeed that this text, this exercise was always destined to be laid aside.", "A boy is playing guitar.", "Dynes came to UC San Diego in 1991 after 22 years as a physicist with AT&T Bell Labs."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "One could indeed wish for more and for improvement, but I honestly believe that we have made a good start.", "pos": ["One can indeed wish more and better, but I believe very honestly that it is a good start."], "neg": ["This could also apply to all drugs but dangerous insofar as the consumer of drugs is the only to run risks.", "A man is adding oil to a pot.", "While waiting for a bomb squad to arrive, the bomb exploded, killing Wells.", "A girl is playing a violin.", "Thus, it is urgent that the staff of the interservice group are very quickly strengthened at the heart of the Secretary-General of the Commission, so that all the proposed act of general scope can be accompanied, during their examination by the college on the basis of Article 299 (2) of a fiche d'impact detailed."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "He will stand trial on 8 January on charges of having attended a meeting of the Tunisian opposition in France, which he denies.", "pos": ["It passes in lawsuit next on January 8. It is reproached to him for having taken part in a meeting of Tunisian opponents in France, which besides it denies."], "neg": ["It is on trial on 8 January is accused him for having taken part in a meeting of Tunisian opponents in France, which also it denies.", "It happening in trial on 8 January. he is accused of taking part in a meeting of Tunisian opponents in France, what to do deny it.", "It crosses the 8 January of this year. it is to have a Union of Tunisian opponents in France, which Moreover it.", "Someone is mixing a liquid.", "In recent weeks, three important progress has been made."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Thank you very much, Commissioner.", "pos": ["Thank you very much, Mr Commissioner."], "neg": ["In a news release Thursday, Strayhorn said this was the first time a comptroller rejected a budget.", "Criticism, especially those of Ireland and France, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has given a new interpretation: it is now a tax for all users, including the British lorry drivers.", "Spain has done a magnificent job in turning round the difficult neighbourly relations which Europe and North Africa and Spain and Morocco have suffered during the course of history.", "I should like to thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, Mr Brok, for his clear, comprehensive report.", "A man is spitting."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A step in the right direction, for which the European Parliament has been striving for a long time now, is the creation of a provisional unit for judicial cooperation.", "pos": ["The creation of a provisional unit of judicial cooperation is a step in the right direction, not to which the European Parliament has been seeking for a long time already."], "neg": ["The creation of a Provisional Judicial Cooperation Unit is a step in the right direction, which the European Parliament is not a long time ago.", "A man plays a piano.", "The benchmark 10-year Treasury note yield <US10YT=RR> dipped below 4.20 percent on Tuesday.", "A man drills wood.", "In the last three weeks, progress has been made in three major areas."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "There has been a budget heading for the funding of mine clearance and prevention programmes for many years now.", "pos": ["A budget line finance programmes of mine clearance and prevention for years."], "neg": ["A budget line finances clearance programmes and of prevention since years.", "A budget line is funding programmes for mine clearance and prevention for years.", "A budget line, programmes and of many years.", "Some is grating onion into water.", "I should like to thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, Mr Brok, for his clear, comprehensive report."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The other viewpoint illustrated by the rapporteur' s initial statement and shared by a number of members is to promote regulations and codes of conduct which are needed in order to establish among insurers ways of organising costs on a mutual basis providing everybody with guaranteed access to high-quality care and to counter the risk of discriminatory practices developing together with risk and client selection.", "pos": ["The other point of view, illustrated by the initial aim of the rapporteur and shared by many colleagues, is to promote the regulations and codes of conduct necessary to establish, between insurers, the forms of cost option guaranteeing all the supply of good quality of care and to counter the risks of discriminatory practices and a selection of risks and customers."], "neg": ["\"I'm real excited to be a Cleveland Cavalier,\" James said.", "A man is riding on a boat.", "She appeared in federal court Wednesday, but did not enter a plea.", "Rocky and Apollo Creed are running down the beach.", "Some is grating onion into water."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Clearly, explanations are necessary for the increased incidence of BSE, not only in France but also in other Member States.", "pos": ["It is obviously necessary to determine the reasons for the increase in the incidence of BSE, not only in France but also in other Member States."], "neg": ["We should obviously determine the reasons of the increased incidence of the ESB, not only in France but also in other Member States.", "Lastly, and most controversially, the committee strongly called for the use of a fast-track procedure to implement this legislation.", "In Feira, he recognised the quality of potential candidates for accession to the countries participating in the stabilisation and association process.", "A girl is playing a violin.", "In addition, we would like to have a chance to prove to the Europe that we are in a position to alone the cause of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia, while recognizing the principles."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, the Commission' s attitude to the right of access to documents may be seen from the internal handbook sent on 11 October to employees of the Commission to tell them how to deal with requests from MEPs for access to documents.", "pos": ["Mr President, we can see the Commission's position in terms of public access to documents by reading the internal manual which was given on 11 October, with the Commission officials in order to explain the way in which they were to deal with the requests from the Members with regard to access to documents."], "neg": ["Do you believe that the 'Austrian model' - namely the taking of bilateral majority decisions - in the future will be an instrument for taking decisions ignoring the European institutions and to build a new institution, or a new group, to be able to circumvent the rule of unanimity in the Council?", "The man is walking.", "Those who refuse closer cooperation to enjoy the same freedom of movement that passengers in the back seat of a car.", "The lady put the baby int a trashcan.", "Mr President, I voted in favour of the report García-Margallo y Marfil, which concerns the taxation of services provided by electronic means."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I stress this point because the market cannot regulate everything, which is why competition is not completely unrestricted, nor should it be.", "pos": ["I insist on this point because the market cannot regulate all and that, accordingly, it does not have there nor cannot have there of competition without limits."], "neg": ["I stress this because the market cannot solve all and that, accordingly, there is not and cannot have competition without limits.", "Someone is reading an email.", "The aim of the annual review is to identify such potential improvements.", "Richard Grasso quit as chairman last week after losing the support of his board amid public furor over his $140 million pay package.", "The girl is playing the guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "After all, it is by no means certain that the proposed definition of equitable price is better than any other, because the various definitions that are currently in use in the Member States are all perfectly satisfactory.", "pos": ["Indeed, it is not absolutely certain that the definition of fair price proposed is better than another, because the different definitions are currently used in the Member States are enough is enough."], "neg": ["Indeed, it is not absolutely certain that the definition of fair price which is better than another, because the definitions used in the Member States in all amply sufficient.", "Indeed, it is absolutely not certain only the definition of fair price which is proposed is better than another, because the various definitions used currently in the Member States are enough all amply.", "In fact, it is not absolutely certain that the definition of price that is proposed is better than another, because the different currently in the Member States all fully.", "Above all, unipersonnelle when a company or a society with fewer than 250 employees has a project, it must be possible to receive financing not only with a guarantee to 120%, but also on the basis of a good idea.", "The government recently shelved peace talks with the MILF, being brokered by Malaysia, after a string of attacks, including three bombings, on Mindanao."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I also voted against a text which calls for the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the eventual Treaty of Nice.", "pos": ["I also voted against a text which requires the incorporation of the Charter of the fundamental rights in the future treaty which will be adopted in Nice."], "neg": ["A man is cutting grass.", "It is right that the Committee on Legal Affairs persists in refusing a ceiling and the maintenance of a minimum rate which cannot be less than 7%.", "If we want to help Indonesia we must act now with money and deeds, not merely words.", "A woman is mixing eggs in the bowl.", "A animal is eating."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Fifty-seven senators, including 24 Republicans, have signed the letter.", "pos": ["Of those who signed the letter, 57 are senators, including 24 Republicans."], "neg": ["The aim of the annual review is to identify such potential improvements.", "Supermarket chains are accusing union leaders of breaking off contract talks prematurely over the weekend as grocery clerks gear up for a possible strike.", "A man is playing a cello.", "I make an urgent appeal to the Presidency to do everything in its power to fill this role.", "A boy whacks a man with a sword."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I find it rather odd that people are already trying to tie the Commission's hands in relation to the proposal for a directive, while at the same calling on it to present a Green Paper on the current situation with regard to optional and supplementary health insurance schemes.", "pos": ["I find it a little strange to now obliging the Commission to a motion for a resolution and to ask him at the same time to draw up a Green Paper on the current state of voluntary insurance and supplementary sickness insurance."], "neg": ["I am a bit of him now to compel the Commission to a motion for a resolution and ask him in a time to establish a Green Paper on the current State of voluntary insurance and health insurance.", "The Hispanic population increased by 9.8per cent from the April 2000 census figures, despite less favourable social and economic conditions than in the 1990s.", "Those who stand apart from reinforced cooperation are really being given the same freedom as the back seat passengers in a car.", "A man is singing.", "Above all, when a one-man company or a company with fewer than 250 employees has a project, it should not need to provide 120% loan guarantees in the form of land to receive financing; it should also be possible for it to be funded on the basis of a good idea."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I would urge the French Presidency to do their utmost to overcome this divide, because it is extremely destructive.", "pos": ["I urge the French Presidency to do everything in its power to bridge this gap, particularly destructive."], "neg": ["I make an urgent appeal to the Presidency to do everything in its power to fill this role.", "I launch an urgent appeal with the French presidency so that it does all that is in its capacity to fill this particularly destroying ditch.", "The system is priced from US$1.1 million to $22.4 million, depending on configuration.", "Approval of the Minutes of the previous session", "Mr President, we can see the Commission's position in terms of public access to documents by reading the internal manual which was given on 11 October, with the Commission officials in order to explain the way in which they were to deal with the requests from the Members with regard to access to documents."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Reiterating the calls made by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000, what initiatives does the Presidency of the European Council propose to take with a view to playing a more active role so as to guarantee the full and complete application of the UN peace plan?", "pos": ["As the European Parliament, in its resolution of 16 March 2000, that they initiatives does the Council intend to take to play a more active role in order to ensure the full and entire application of the UN peace plan?"], "neg": ["A man is playing a violin.", "Mr President, the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and we are to retain any prepared very carefully the Karamanou report.", "He claimed Red Hat and the Free Software Foundation with trying to undermine U.S. copyright and patent law.", "Mr President, the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Internal Affairs has prepared carefully the Karamanou report.", "The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 3.42 points, or 0.34 percent, to 1,007.84."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On the contrary, the influence of the national democracies is being reduced by the further restriction of the right of veto and by the fact that the European Parliament is being given more power.", "pos": ["On the contrary, the power of the national restricting still further the right of veto and to give more power to the Parliament of the EU."], "neg": ["On the contrary, the power of the national democracies is increasingly to restrict the right of veto and of giving Parliament more power for the EU.", "A person is slicing onions.", "The new analysis found that 32 of 16,608 participants developed ovarian cancer in about 5 1/2 years of follow-up, including 20 women taking hormones.", "Shares of McDonald's rose $1.83, or 8.3 percent, to close at the day's high of $23.89.", "The settlement taking effect this week was reached less than two months after O'Malley took the helm of the nation's fourth-largest archdiocese."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, I would like to focus in my speech on Mrs Lalumière' s report, which I think is clearly worded and well put together.", "pos": ["Mr President, in my speech I shall focus on the report by Mrs Lalumière report, which I find formulated well thought-out and clearly."], "neg": ["\"I have the opportunity to congratulate the governor-elect of the great state of California, and I'm looking forward to it.\"", "A man and a woman are riding on their bicycles.", "A woman is writing a letter.", "That is up from $1.14 billion during the same quarter last year.", "Of 24 million phoned-in votes, 50.28 percent were for Studdard, putting him 130,000 votes ahead of Aiken."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I stress this point because the market cannot regulate everything, which is why competition is not completely unrestricted, nor should it be.", "pos": ["I stress this because the market cannot regulate everything and that, in this sense, there cannot be any competition without limits."], "neg": ["I stress this because the market cannot solve all and that, accordingly, there is not and cannot have competition without limits.", "\"If you pass this bill, Big Brother will be watching you,\" said Rep. John Mabry, D-Waco.", "Sliding down the embankment, the two rescuers hit the spongy, rocky floor of the river and immediately felt the pull.", "A woman is playing a guitar on streets.", "When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to apply the precautionary principle."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to say a few words on the joint resolution, which will, of course, be passed.", "pos": ["Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to speak on the joint resolution that obviously we vote."], "neg": ["Mr. President, my honourable Members, I would like to intervene on the joint resolution that obviously we will vote.", "Mr President, my dear colleagues, I would like to intervene on the common resolution which of course we will.", "The European Council will also discuss the state of progress of the accession negotiations and hence of the enlargement.", "A cat is rubbing against a baby.", "A woman serving volleyballs over a net."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I call on Prague to respond to this signal, this challenge, this plea for dialogue, to grant our request and to ensure, together with our House, that this legacy of a nationalist era can be consigned to the past.", "pos": ["I invite Prague to take this message, this invitation, this request for dialogue, to act and to make it so that, together with this House, these being nationalistic period relics may be abandoned."], "neg": ["I invite Prague to seize this, this invitation, this request for dialogue, to respond and to ensure that, together with this House, these relics of a nationalist age can be abandoned.", "I urge that to seize this motion, this invitation, this request of dialogue, to give further and to make sure that, together with this Assembly, these relics of a nationalist might be.", "A woman is riding a horse.", "The resolution on Nice, voted today, does not reflect this.", "His partner Bijan Darvish is charged with filing a false police report."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It must genuinely be a centre for coordinating the network of national agencies which, in turn, must activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence for food safety at the level of the individual regions.", "pos": ["It must be the true brain coordination of the network of national agencies, which, in turn, must activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence of food safety at regional level."], "neg": ["A person folds a tortilla.", "A man is riding a motorcycle.", "I know that in France they have had whole herd slaughter and this does not seem to be the best way forward.", "I think we made the right case and did the right thing.\"", "But church members and observers say they anticipate that the decision here could pose doctrinal problems for some Episcopalians who believe the Bible prohibits homosexuality."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "As a matter of urgency, therefore, the staff complement of the Interdepartmental Group attached to the Commission Secretariat should be strengthened at the earliest possible opportunity in order to ensure that all proposals for acts which are general in scope are accompanied, when considered by the College of Commissioners and on the basis of Article 299(2), by a simplified sheet outlining their potential impact.", "pos": ["Therefore, it is urgent that the personnel of the inter-service group are very quickly reinforced at the heart of the Secretary-General of the Commission, so that all the proposals of the Act of general interest can be accompanied, during their examination by the Commission on the basis of Article 299 (2) of a detailed fiche d'impact."], "neg": ["Thus, it is imperative that the inter-service Group are very quickly, of the Commission, so that all the proposals to act can be, during their examination by the force on the basis of Article 299, paragraph 2, a detailed impact.", "The girl is spraying the plants with water.", "A woman is cleaning a shrimp.", "Men are playing soccer.", "Stefani's remarks further stoked tension after Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi last week compared a German member of the European Parliament to a Nazi concentration camp guard."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "pos": ["By withdrawing our resolution, I am, however, convinced that Parliament would have done better by making its voice heard, in view of the Nice European Council, a separate and specific resolution on the issues which are so important and so difficult for the Intergovernmental Conference, rather than treating them in the context of a single resolution including also all the other items on the agenda of the Council."], "neg": ["A man is stirring ingredients in a bowl.", "In that case, the court held that the city of Cincinnati had violated the First Amendment in banning, in the interest of aesthetics, only the advertising pamphlets.", "The other point of view, illustrated by the comments by the rapporteur and a number of colleagues, is to promote the regulations and codes of conduct for dialogue, between a good supply of guaranteeing the provision of a good practices and to counter the risk of discriminatory practices and a series of risks and customers.", "Junya Tanase, forex strategist at JP Morgan Chase, said \"I expect Japan to keep conducting intervention, but the volume is likely to fall sharply.\"", "The technology-packed Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> dropped 37.78 points, or 1.94 percent, to 1,912.36."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Council of Europe, along with the Court of Human Rights, has a wealth of experience of such forms of supervision, and we can build on these.", "pos": ["Just as the European Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe has also considerable experience with regard to these forms of control; we can take as a basis."], "neg": ["Just like the Court of the human rights, the Council of Europe has to him also a solid experiment with regard to such forms of control. We can take it for base.", "Just as the Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe also has a solid experience in terms of such forms of control. We can to base.", "The joint debate is closed.", "The new research will be published soon in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.", "On the contrary, the power of the national restricting still further the right of veto and to give more power to the Parliament of the EU."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We have started to exchange ideas on this question, from which it has emerged that all the Member States want to maintain this ceiling after enlargement.", "pos": ["We have started to have discussions on this issue, making it clear that all the Member States wish to maintain this ceiling after enlargement."], "neg": ["A man is lifting weights.", "If we want to help Indonesia, we must intervene now with money and concrete action, and not just with words.", "A man is dancing on the road.", "In addition, we would like to have a chance to prove to the Europe that we are in a position to alone the cause of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia, while recognizing the principles.", "Thirdly, the acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the various countries and the EU as a whole dependent – the example of Denmark is there for us to show it – elimination on social and democratic deficits for European policy."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Firstly, simplification and clarification of the Treaties.", "pos": ["Firstly, that of simplification and clarification of the Treaties."], "neg": ["The consumer group generated $4.47 billion of profit and $20 billion of revenue from January to June, 53% of Citigroup's profit and revenue.", "A man is talking with a woman.", "The vulnerability exists in the way Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications checks document properties passed to it when a document is opened.", "The Senate agreed Tuesday to lift a 10-year-old ban on the research and development of low-yield nuclear weapons.", "Another person, a man from Fort Worth, Texas, also was missing."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "As a matter of urgency, therefore, the staff complement of the Interdepartmental Group attached to the Commission Secretariat should be strengthened at the earliest possible opportunity in order to ensure that all proposals for acts which are general in scope are accompanied, when considered by the College of Commissioners and on the basis of Article 299(2), by a simplified sheet outlining their potential impact.", "pos": ["Thus, it is urgent that the staff of the interservice group are very quickly strengthened at the heart of the Secretary-General of the Commission, so that all the proposed act of general scope can be accompanied, during their examination by the college on the basis of Article 299 (2) of a fiche d'impact detailed."], "neg": ["Thus, it is imperative that the inter-service Group are very quickly, of the Commission, so that all the proposals to act can be, during their examination by the force on the basis of Article 299, paragraph 2, a detailed impact.", "This is also the position advocated by the rapporteur, and it is shared by the European People' s Party.", "The upgrade will be available as a free download for current customers with SmarNet support in January 2004.", "It is urgent and that is why we have decided to put this item on the agenda.", "The new worm affects these Windows systems: 2000, XP, NT 4.0 and Server 2003."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement at all than a poor one and it is true that, in this instance, the American proposal was a third-rate proposal, and one which was completely unacceptable to Europe.", "pos": ["Without doubt, was better to have no agreement only have an agreement that is bad and, in this case, the American proposal was a proposal to the rebate, totally unacceptable for Europe."], "neg": ["A man is peeling a potato.", "The things worsen when it is question of women of distant countries who accepted this work by need and who do not have any other possibility to continue to provide for their vital needs.", "The recent incidents against the Greek imperative more the need to promote measures, of strengthening the institutions and the respect of human rights in Albania.", "Mr Gayssot, Greek ships have sunk without warning, when there were no storms in the vicinity.", "A woman is squeezing juice out of a lemon."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The joint debate is closed.", "pos": ["The joint debate is closed."], "neg": ["He said the attackers left behind leaflets urging staff at the Ishtar Sheraton to stop working at the hotel and demanding U.S. forces leave Iraq.", "The arrests came just days after Israeli troops shot and killed Abdullah Kawasme, the militant group's leader in Hebron.", "Australian researchers believe they have found a trigger of type 1 diabetes in children - their mothers eating potatoes and other tuberous vegetables during pregnancy.", "A woman is playing an electric guitar.", "The lesson that must retain this House in her this morning's debate is that we are forced to conclude that the laws are maritime, throughout the world, in a state of mess, and that we must set about the task of them to bring order."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union.", "pos": ["This is a development of this kind that I wish the other Member States of the European Union."], "neg": ["The lesson which this Parliament in her debate of this morning must retain is that we are forced to conclude that the maritime laws are, all over the world, in a state of disorder, and that we must harness ourselves with the task to put order at it.", "A woman is exercising with a barbell.", "A little boy is vacuuming the floor.", "In 1995, the last survey, those numbers were equal.", "Thirdly, acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the individual countries and for the EU as a whole basically depend - and Denmark demonstrated this - on dismantling the social and democratic deficits of European policy."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "If we want to help Indonesia we must act now with money and deeds, not merely words.", "pos": ["If we want to help Indonesia, we must intervene now with money and actions, and not just with words."], "neg": ["Just like the Court of the human rights, the Council of Europe has to him also a solid experiment with regard to such forms of control. We can take it for base.", "The man is playing the wooden flute.", "I find it a little strange to want as of now forcing the Commission to a motion for a resolution and to ask him at the same time to draw up a Green Paper on the current state of voluntary insurance and supplementary sickness insurance.", "A woman is swimming.", "LIPA Chairman Richard Kessel said that meant the cable could be used \"as we see fit."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement at all than a poor one and it is true that, in this instance, the American proposal was a third-rate proposal, and one which was completely unacceptable to Europe.", "pos": ["Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement have an agreement that is wrong and, in this case, the American proposal was a watered-down proposal totally unacceptable for Europe."], "neg": ["The debate is closed.", "Question No 6 by (H-0886/00):", "\"I´m very proud of the citizens of this state,\" Gov. John Baldacci said after votes from Tuesday´s referendum were counted.", "A woman is cutting some fish.", "It must be the true brain coordination of the network of national agencies, which, in turn, must activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence food safety at regional level."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is also the position advocated by the rapporteur, and it is shared by the European People' s Party.", "pos": ["That is the position defended by the rapporteur and shared by the European People's Party."], "neg": ["That was changed in the face of criticism, especially from Ireland and France, and a different spin has now been put on it by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer: it is now being portrayed as a user charge for all, including British lorry drivers.", "A man is playing the piano.", "A man is dancing in the rain.", "That was more than double the $102 million, or 13 cents a share, for the year-earlier quarter.", "The company also said it would cut wholesale prices on cassettes and change the suggested retail price to $8.98."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Clearly, explanations are necessary for the increased incidence of BSE, not only in France but also in other Member States.", "pos": ["We must clearly define the reasons for the increase in the incidence of BSE, not only in France but also in other Member States."], "neg": ["We should obviously determine the reasons of the increased incidence of the ESB, not only in France but also in other Member States.", "This is a development of this type that I wish to other States of the European Union.", "The network is also dropping its Friday night \"Dateline\" edition.", "A man is holding a frog.", "A man opens a can and pours the contents into a bowl."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Whilst employment may be the European Union' s priority policy, fisheries, as another economic sector, cannot remain on the sidelines.", "pos": ["If employment is the political priority of the Union, fisheries, as an economic sector, cannot remain on the sidelines."], "neg": ["If the employment is the policy of the Union, the Community, as a sector, cannot remain on the sidelines.", "A man is dancing.", "Someone is greating a carrot.", "MEN who drink tea, particularly green tea, can greatly reduce their risk of prostate cancer, a landmark WA study has found.", "Furthermore, we would have a chance to demonstrate to Europe that we are able to develop only constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia, recognising the real democratic principles."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Lastly, and most controversially, the committee strongly called for the use of a fast-track procedure to implement this legislation.", "pos": ["Finally, and this is a subject more controversial, the Commission invited vigorously to use the fast-track procedure to implement this legislation."], "neg": ["If we want to help Indonesia we must act now with money and deeds, not merely words.", "He urged Congress to \"send me the final bill as soon as possible so that I can sign it into law.\"", "It is rightly that the Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens' Rights persists in the rejection of a ceiling and in the maintenance of a minimum rate which cannot be below 7%.", "U.S. forces struck dozens of targets on Monday, killing six guerrillas and arresting 99 others during 1,729 patrols and 25 raids conducted over 24 hours.", "A tortoise is walking."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "They will keep the pressure on, and they are strengthening their position with the revenue they are generating from delivering mail above 150 grams.", "pos": ["They continue to put pressure. The money they earn with distribution beyond the bounds of 150 grammes allows them to strengthen their position."], "neg": ["The witness, a 27-year-old Kosovan parking attendant with criminal convictions for dishonesty, was paid 10,000 by the News of the World.", "A man is playing the guitar.", "The man lifted barbells.", "Either we are in a club or we are out of it and it is particularly important that we accept this.", "A man is playing flute."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "If we want to help Indonesia we must act now with money and deeds, not merely words.", "pos": ["If we want to help Indonesia, we must speak now with money and concrete action, and not just with words."], "neg": ["A man is exercising.", "FirstEnergy Corp. should have determined that modernizing one of its plants would increase overall pollution emissions, U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus ruled Thursday.", "A man is riding a motorcycle.", "All those who are at present engaged in illicit work would obtain work with decent social conditions.", "Either we are in a club or we are out of it and it is particularly important that we accept this."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I call on Prague to respond to this signal, this challenge, this plea for dialogue, to grant our request and to ensure, together with our House, that this legacy of a nationalist era can be consigned to the past.", "pos": ["I invite Prague to seize this sign, this invitation, this request for dialogue, to take action pursuant and to make to it so that, in.liaison.with this Parliament, these one nationalist era old relics can be abandoned."], "neg": ["I invite Prague to seize this, this invitation, this request for dialogue, to respond and to ensure that, together with this House, these relics of a nationalist age can be abandoned.", "I urge that to seize this motion, this invitation, this request of dialogue, to give further and to make sure that, together with this Assembly, these relics of a nationalist might be.", "The House had also fought, however, for the reduction of the funds available for innovative measures to be offset by means of resources from the flexibility instrument, a demand which is recorded in a declaration on the financial perspective in the Interinstitutional Agreement.", "In my view, there is, however, nothing worse than having to warn people that a ruling for them could only be a series of words pleasing and have no practical effect on their existence.", "Since the first, on this issue, which took place at the European level on the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission is in relation to the Member States to promote an action intended to what we could consider as a culture, on the standard them in the matter of respect for the rights and freedoms of the citizens, and effectiveness in the fight against crime."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "But I would like to say to Parliament this afternoon that we should not lose sight of the fact that the EU spends just 1% of GDP and much of that is administered in the Member States.", "pos": ["Nevertheless, I would like to say to the House this afternoon that we must not lose sight of the fact that the European Union spends only 1% of the GDP of the Member States and that the bulk of this money is managed in the Member States."], "neg": ["Nevertheless, I would like to say to the idea that we must not lose sight of the fact that the European Union does not believe that 1% of the GDP of the Member States and that the bulk of this money is managed in the Member States.", "Bush turned out a statement yesterday thanking the commission for its work, and said, \"Our journey into space will go on.\"", "The UK Labour Members of the PSE Group welcome the favourable reception reserved for the contribution they have made to the ongoing work of the IGC on reinforced cooperation, without endorsing totally at all the details of this.", "Wal-Mart estimates more than 100 million Americans visit their stores every week.", "This is no time for the faint-hearted."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "In Nigeria, Chevron has been accused by the All-Ijaw indigenous people of instigating violence against them and actually paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot protesters at the Warri naval base.", "pos": ["In Nigeria, the indigenous people All-Ijaw Chevron have been accused of inciting violence against them and to go so far as to pay Nigerian soldiers to draw on the demonstrators in the Warri naval base."], "neg": ["In Nigeria, the All-Ijaw natives showed Chevron to incite with the violence in their opposition and of going until paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot at the demonstrators at the naval base from Warri.", "In Nigeria, encouraging the violence in their employment and go up to pay soldiers to draw on the demonstrators at the basis of warri.", "Let us, as a Europe of 15 Member States, organise ourselves in order to be able to welcome those countries who are knocking at the door into the fold under respectable conditions.", "Vessels, without which there is the slightest, Mr Gayssot.", "License sales, a key measure of demand, fell 21 percent to $107.6 million."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I know that in France they have had whole herd slaughter and this does not seem to be the best way forward.", "pos": ["I know that in France, the principle of the slaughter of whole herds was applied and that does not seem to be the best way to combat this phenomenon."], "neg": ["I know that in France, the principle of the whole and that it does not seem to be the best way to combat this phenomenon.", "I know that in France, the principle of slaughter of the entire herd has been implemented and that this does not seem to be the best way to combat this phenomenon.", "The Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida voted Saturday to repudiate a decision by the denomination's national convention to confirm a gay man as bishop.", "A man is playing a guitar.", "Someone is putting rice in a pan."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "These objectives, the main one and the secondary ones, will be the touchstone by which the concrete proposals submitted by the Commission must be judged.", "pos": ["These objectives, the overriding goal and secondary objectives, will be the yardstick by which we judge the concrete proposals put forward by the Commission."], "neg": ["These objectives, the secondary primary objective and objectives, will represent the stone of key enabling us to consider the concrete proposals presented by the Commission.", "These objectives, the secondary objective and objectives, will represent the touchstone of enabling us to consider the specific proposals presented by the Commission.", "The man is playing the guitar.", "Consumers would still have to get a descrambling security card from their cable operator to plug into the set.", "Two women are shopping."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The European Council will also discuss the state of progress of the accession negotiations and hence of the enlargement.", "pos": ["The European Council will discuss the state of progress of accession negotiations, and therefore of enlargement."], "neg": ["Two men are dancing together.", "A man is reading an email.", "Spain has done a magnificent job in turning round the difficult neighbourly relations which Europe and North Africa and Spain and Morocco have suffered during the course of history.", "The right to a government of arbitrarily its Constitution is the definition of a dictatorship.", "There is, of course, a very important point, is the fact that we have initiated within category four, with his approach, but we do not yet know very well if we managed to solve the problem, not least because the Council does not wish to participate enough food for thought."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "- My party has serious reservations about Community law applying to the sale of consumer products, as against applying the concept of mutual recognition of standards.", "pos": ["My party has profound reservations about the regulation of the sale of consumer goods by means of Community legislation, as it expresses reservations about the concept of mutual recognition of standards."], "neg": ["A couple of policewomen are singing karaoke.", "By state law, 911 calls are not public information and were not released.", "His lawyer, Pamela MacKey, said Bryant expects to be completely exonerated.", "A man is tying in the machine.", "These objectives, the main one and the secondary ones, will be the touchstone by which the concrete proposals submitted by the Commission must be judged."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The other viewpoint illustrated by the rapporteur' s initial statement and shared by a number of members is to promote regulations and codes of conduct which are needed in order to establish among insurers ways of organising costs on a mutual basis providing everybody with guaranteed access to high-quality care and to counter the risk of discriminatory practices developing together with risk and client selection.", "pos": ["The other point of view, illustrated by the initial matter of the rapporteur and shared per number of Members, consists in promoting the regulations and the codes of conduct necessary to found, between insurers, the forms of mutualisation of the costs guaranteeing to all the supply of an high quality of care and to counter the risks to see developing discriminatory practices and a risk selection and customers."], "neg": ["I call on Prague to respond to this signal, this challenge, this plea for dialogue, to grant our request and to ensure, together with our House, that this legacy of a nationalist era can be consigned to the past.", "We have heard that the previous Council Presidency first restructured and then scrapped the Ministry for Equality.", "Someone is cleaning a animal.", "\"The recent turnaround in the stock market and an easing in unemployment claims should keep consumer expectations at current levels and may signal more favorable economic times ahead.\"", "A man is pouring rice a roni into a pan."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "All those who are at present engaged in illicit work would obtain work with decent social conditions.", "pos": ["All those who are currently engaged in undeclared work e.g. employment in decent social conditions."], "neg": ["Everyone who works are currently obtiendraient undeclared work in decent social conditions.", "Approval of the Minutes of the previous sitting", "Mayor Joe T. Parker said late Thursday that the three workers were two men and a woman who were inside the building when the first blast occurred.", "A man is smashing some garlic.", "This rule can also apply to all drugs récréationnelles but dangerous, provided that the consumer of drugs is the only one to run risks."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Therefore, I also believe that this reconciliation is sustainable, but that the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the university issue and to many other issues, needs visible signs of its success, and powerful support, else peace throughout the region will be under threat.", "pos": ["That is why I also believe that this reconciliation can take, but the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the issue of universities and to many other problems, needs the visible signs of success as well as a strong support, on pain of being threatened peace in the region as a whole."], "neg": ["I invite Prague to seize this sign, this invitation, this request for dialogue, to take action pursuant and to make to it so that, in.liaison.with this Parliament, these one nationalist era old relics can be abandoned.", "A man is putting a knife in a vice.", "The man is playing the guitar.", "A man is playing drums.", "By withdrawing our resolution, I nevertheless expresses the conviction that our Parliament would have done better its voice heard in devoting, in view of the Nice European Council, a specific and separate resolution to the issues so important and so difficult for the Intergovernmental Conference, rather than dealt with in the context of a single resolution including also all the other items on the agenda for the Council."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Clearly, explanations are necessary for the increased incidence of BSE, not only in France but also in other Member States.", "pos": ["We must obviously determine the reasons for the increase in the incidence of BSE, not only in France but also in other Member States."], "neg": ["We should obviously determine the reasons of the increased incidence of the ESB, not only in France but also in other Member States.", "My party serious reservations about the regulation of the sale of consumption by means of Community legislation, as it has reservations about the concept of mutual recognition of standards.", "Against the Japanese currency, the euro was at 135.92/6.04 yen against the late New York level of 136.03/14.", "The damaged area of the garage was not stable, with ``the real potential for a secondary collapse,'' McGreevey said.", "The woman is slicing herbs."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement at all than a poor one and it is true that, in this instance, the American proposal was a third-rate proposal, and one which was completely unacceptable to Europe.", "pos": ["Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement at all than to have an agreement that is wrong and, in this case, the proposal was a proposal to you, totally unacceptable for Europe."], "neg": ["A soldier was killed Monday and another wounded when their convoy was ambushed in northern Iraq.", "The crates are full of hardback copies of \"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.\"", "Whilst employment may be the European Union' s priority policy, fisheries, as another economic sector, cannot remain on the sidelines.", "The military said it had killed 12 rebels and captured nine in the campaign so far, for the loss of six soldiers wounded.", "Bremer said one initiative is to launch a $70 million nationwide program in the next two weeks to clean up neighborhoods and build community projects."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Reiterating the calls made by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000, what initiatives does the Presidency of the European Council propose to take with a view to playing a more active role so as to guarantee the full and complete application of the UN peace plan?", "pos": ["As the European Parliament has called for in its resolution of 16 March 2000, they initiatives European Council Presidency intend to take to play a more active role in order to ensure the full implementation of the UN peace plan?"], "neg": ["We have started to have discussions on this issue, which show that all the Member States want to keep the ceiling after enlargement.", "A boy whacks a man with a sword.", "A woman is dancing in the rain.", "The Fed also said the risks to the economy were biased toward weakness.", "A man is playing a guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I wonder if the Commissioner has planned any steps in this respect to demonstrate that we really do consider Kostunica to be the only lawfully elected representative of the Serbian people, and the only partner with whom the European Union is involved as from today.", "pos": ["I wonder if the Commissioner already provides the steps that will make it possible to show that we consider Koitunica as the legally elected representative of the Serbian people and as a partner with which the European Union will now address."], "neg": ["I wonder if the Commissioner, for the steps which they show that we consider and as the representative of the Serbian people and as the partner with which the European Union will have to deal with.", "The 51-year-old nurse worked at North York General Hospital, the epicentre of the latest outbreak.", "A man is playing the trumpet.", "California's lost tax revenue was mostly due to international corporate tax shelters.", "They will continue to put pressure on the money they gain the distribution beyond the bounds of the 150 grams enables them to strengthen their position."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The labelling of beef that was agreed on, which is a minimum form of labelling and only came into force two and a half months ago, does not make it possible for the origin of animals to be adequately traced, and we were very slow to ban specified risk materials.", "pos": ["The labelling of beef which has been decided, which is a minimum and labelling which is in force for two and a half months, does not properly to trace the origin of the animals and we have banned quite late specified risk materials."], "neg": ["Officers threw him to the ground and handcuffed him, and Reyna dropped a knee into his back, according to testimony.", "Against the Japanese currency, the euro was at 135.92/6.04 yen against the late New York level of 136.03/14.", "A plane is landing on a runway.", "A man is speaking.", "A step in the right direction, for which the European Parliament has been striving for a long time now, is the creation of a provisional unit for judicial cooperation."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "They will keep the pressure on, and they are strengthening their position with the revenue they are generating from delivering mail above 150 grams.", "pos": ["They will continue to put pressure on the money they gain the distribution beyond the bounds of the 150 grams enables them to strengthen their position."], "neg": ["You do not even want to incorporate it into the Treaty, which shows that this text was to be put to one side.", "Mr. Swan's group supported the governor's Democratic opponent, Bill Curry, in the 2002 election.", "Elecia Battle dropped her purse after buying the Mega Millions Lottery ticket last week and believes the ticket blew away.", "ONA explicitly stated that it did not receive intelligence material indicating that Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist network was planning to mount an operation in Bali.", "Reiterating the calls made by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000, what initiatives does the Presidency of the European Council propose to take with a view to playing a more active role so as to guarantee the full and complete application of the UN peace plan?"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is gratifying that Parliament has succeeded in producing a large majority in favour of more openness.", "pos": ["It must be welcomed that the European Parliament has succeeded in bringing together a broad majority in favour of greater transparency."], "neg": ["A step in the right direction, for which the European Parliament has been striving for a long time now, is the creation of a provisional unit for judicial cooperation.", "A woman is cutting tofu.", "The man is playing a guitar.", "A man is dancing.", "A man is petting a dog."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The aim of the annual review is to identify such potential improvements.", "pos": ["The annual report aims to identify such potential improvements."], "neg": ["A man is playing a violin.", "The man is talking.", "I know that in France they have had whole herd slaughter and this does not seem to be the best way forward.", "Amazon also reported that the New York Attorney General's office had settled civil fraud charges with one of the spoofers it identified.", "The euro has slipped nearly four percent since matching a record peak of around $1.1935 only last week and hitting an all-time high of 140.90 yen in late May."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "There is an urgent need, following the recent attacks on the Greek minority in Himara, to promote democratisation measures and measures to strengthen institutions and respect for human rights in Albania.", "pos": ["The recent incidents against the Greek minority of Himara make more imperative that we need to promote measures for democratisation, institution-building and respect for human rights in Albania."], "neg": ["A man is shooting a pistol.", "A man plays the keyboard with his nose.", "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "I have already replied to this point and I agree entirely with what he said about the need to improve considerably the public debate I will not repeat what I said, but it is true that, all too often, citizens feel alienated to decisions that are taken in bodies that they do not know.", "Families stuck on the highway remained in their cars, and used their cell phones to call home."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I call on Prague to respond to this signal, this challenge, this plea for dialogue, to grant our request and to ensure, together with our House, that this legacy of a nationalist era can be consigned to the past.", "pos": ["I call on Prague to seize this sign, this invitation, this request for dialogue, to follow them up and to ensure that, together with this House, these relics of a nationalist era can be abandoned."], "neg": ["I invite Prague to seize this, this invitation, this request for dialogue, to respond and to ensure that, together with this House, these relics of a nationalist age can be abandoned.", "I urge that to seize this motion, this invitation, this request of dialogue, to give further and to make sure that, together with this Assembly, these relics of a nationalist might be.", "Hospitals and the Red Cross appealed to blood donors yesterday.", "Someone drew on Washington's face on the dollar.", "The European Council will also discuss the state of progress of the accession negotiations and hence of the enlargement."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The labelling of beef that was agreed on, which is a minimum form of labelling and only came into force two and a half months ago, does not make it possible for the origin of animals to be adequately traced, and we were very slow to ban specified risk materials.", "pos": ["The labelling of beef and veal, which has been decided, which is a minimum and which is in force for two and a half months, does not make it possible to trace the origin of the animals properly and we have banned well late at risk."], "neg": ["Moore of Alabama says he will appeal his case to the nation's highest court.", "Stout previously worked for General Electric subsidiary GE Capital Service Inc., where he was vice president and chief technology and information officer.", "A woman is shooting off a gun.", "The drop in core wholesale prices in April reflected falling prices for cars, trucks, men's and boy's clothes and cigarettes.", "Without doubt, just better to have no agreement than having an agreement that is wrong and, in this case, the US proposal was a watered-down proposal, which is totally unacceptable for Europe."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "And I am telling you loud and clear: Kostunica must be given his chance here and I therefore hope that he will give amnesty in the next couple of weeks or months, but meanwhile, I do want the introduction of those two new budget lines, democratisation and reconstruction, to be accompanied by political conditions, both from a political and budgetary perspective.", "pos": ["And I say this to you very clearly: we must give its opportunity to Kostunica and I therefore hope that it will ensure an amnesty during the weeks or months ahead; but in the meantime, I wish, however, that, in political terms and in budgetary terms, the political conditions are linked to the introduction of these two new budget lines, namely democratisation and reconstruction."], "neg": ["Those who stand apart from reinforced cooperation are really being given the same freedom as the back seat passengers in a car.", "The benchmark 10-year note US10YT=RR lost 11/32 in price, taking its yield to 3.21 percent from 3.17 percent late on Monday.", "I know that in France they have had whole herd slaughter and this does not seem to be the best way forward.", "A man is cutting a paper.", "I was going to the court believing I could do this, only if I played my best tennis."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar devoted to equal opportunities reinforces the integrated approach to equality through gender mainstreaming and through specific guidelines.", "pos": ["Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar dedicated to equal opportunities reinforces the integrated approach to equality by gender mainstreaming and specific guidelines."], "neg": ["Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar of the approach of the approach adopted by the gender mainstreaming and guidelines.", "Someone is putting rice in a pan.", "A girl is slicing a butter into two pieces.", "A man is lifting weights.", "Roy Moore, the suspended chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, stood accused but unrepentant Wednesday in the same courtroom he recently presided over."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On the contrary, the influence of the national democracies is being reduced by the further restriction of the right of veto and by the fact that the European Parliament is being given more power.", "pos": ["On the contrary, the power of national democracies is still more force to limit the right of veto and to give more power for the European Parliament."], "neg": ["On the contrary, the power of the national democracies is increasingly to restrict the right of veto and of giving Parliament more power for the EU.", "Ships Greeks have sunk, without that there are the slightest storm in the exist, Mr Gayssot.", "A man an woman are dancing in the rain.", "\"Leaving aside attorney fees, we're dealing with bragging rights of who wins and who loses,\" said Gammerman.", "Someone is scratching an animals belly."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr Gayssot, Greek ships have sunk without warning, when there were no storms in the vicinity.", "pos": ["Greek ship sank, without the least storm in exist, Mr Gayssot."], "neg": ["Vessels, without which there is the slightest, Mr Gayssot.", "Greek vessels flowed, without any storm in around, Mr Gayssot.", "Greek ships ran, without there being the least storm in trimmings, Mr Gayssot.", "A few miles further east is Tehuacan, where corn may first have been domesticated 4,000 years ago.", "Southwest said its traffic was up 4.6 percent in the quarter, and it ended the quarter with $2.2 billion in cash."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Knowledge of foreign languages is accepted as a necessary precursor to mobility.", "pos": ["It is recognised that the knowledge of foreign languages is a prerequisite for mobility."], "neg": ["A man breaks a bottle with a sword.", "It is necessary to be delighted that the Parliament succeeded in gathering a broad majority in favour of a greater transparency.", "In connection with the incident, I have acknowledged that I behaved inappropriately.\"", "\"Spending taxpayer dollars to create terrorism betting parlors is as wasteful as it is repugnant,\" Wyden and Dorgan said Monday in a letter to the Pentagon.", "This is why I also think that this reconciliation can hold. however, the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the question and to many other problems, need visible signs of success so that a strong support to the peace in the whole of the region."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It must genuinely be a centre for coordinating the network of national agencies which, in turn, must activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence for food safety at the level of the individual regions.", "pos": ["It must be the true brain coordination of the network of national agencies, which, in turn, must activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence food safety at regional level."], "neg": ["Former company chief financial officer Franklyn M. Bergonzi pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy on June 5 and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.", "Six Democrats are vying to succeed Jacques and have qualified for the Feb. 3 primary ballot.", "Since the first thoughts on this issue, which took place at European level on the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission is committed to the Member States to promote action to develop what we might regard as a European police culture, based on the highest standards in the field of ethics, respect for the rights and freedoms of the citizens, and effectiveness in the fight against crime.", "Nine seconds later, it broke the sound barrier and continued its steep powered ascent.", "Whilst employment may be the European Union' s priority policy, fisheries, as another economic sector, cannot remain on the sidelines."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The lesson for this Parliament this morning must be that we have to conclude that maritime laws throughout the world are in a state of shambles and we have to begin the process of putting them right.", "pos": ["The lesson that this House in this morning's debate must learn is that we are forced to conclude that the maritime laws are all over the world, in a state of chaos, and that we must set about the task to sort all this out."], "neg": ["A man is hiking.", "This is a vague area, and it is possible that more restrictive provisions may also remain in force, and this is one point in respect of which we have tabled amendments.", "The commission estimated California lost $937 million to corporate tax shelters in 2001.", "A girl is styling her hair.", "Spain developed in a remarkably positive way the difficult vicinity which always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We have heard that the previous Council Presidency first restructured and then scrapped the Ministry for Equality.", "pos": ["We have heard that the previous presidency has restructured first and then dismantled the Ministry of equal opportunities."], "neg": ["We have heard that the first and then the inequality of opportunity.", "Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda.", "A woman is slicing an onion.", "Shares of Express Scripts ESRX.O fell about 4 percent to $66.73 on the Nasdaq in late morning trade.", "BA said the second quarter, which included unofficial industrial action at Heathrow, had been difficult."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is also the position advocated by the rapporteur, and it is shared by the European People' s Party.", "pos": ["It is the position defended by the rapporteur and shared by the European popular party."], "neg": ["A rooster pecks at a dead mouse.", "And I say this to you very clearly: we must give its opportunity to Kostunica and I therefore hope that it will ensure an amnesty during the weeks or months ahead; but in the meantime, I wish, however, that, in political terms and in budgetary terms, the political conditions are linked to the introduction of these two new budget lines, namely democratisation and reconstruction.", "He arrives later this week on the first state visit by a US President.", "A guy is talking into a microphone.", "A man and woman are riding a motorcycle."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "(Parliament accepted the oral amendment)", "pos": ["(Parliament accepted the oral amendment)"], "neg": ["Analysts had forecast second quarter sales of $614 million, according to the Thomson First Call Web site.", "A man is coming out into the water.", "The news also comes in conjunction with Suns annual JavaOne developers conference in San Francisco.", "A man is shooting a gun.", "Gemstar shares moved higher on the news, closing up 2.6 percent at $5.49 on Nasdaq."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": ". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united European continent.", "pos": [". (ES) Mr. President, widening is essential for the construction of a strong and plain continent of Europe."], "neg": ["A person is playing a piano keyboard.", "Above all, when a one-man company or a company with fewer than 250 employees has a project, it should not need to provide 120% loan guarantees in the form of land to receive financing; it should also be possible for it to be funded on the basis of a good idea.", "I find exemplary that France will be resolved to take this step.", "A cartoon woman dives into a pool.", "DRINKING green tea can dramatically reduce the risk of men contracting prostate cancer, a study by Australian researchers has discovered."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement at all than a poor one and it is true that, in this instance, the American proposal was a third-rate proposal, and one which was completely unacceptable to Europe.", "pos": ["Certainly, it was not to have an agreement better than to have an agreement which is wrong and, in this case, the American proposal was a proposal to the reduction, totally unacceptable for Europe."], "neg": ["Two men are playing table tennis.", "Penn Traffic stock closed Wednesday at 36 cents, up 2 cents, or 6.2 percent, from Tuesday's close.", "He refused to reveal what percentage of flights carried sky marshals, or whether they would be increased.", "A tiger is walking around his cage.", "Things are not clear on this point, and it is not impossible that can also remain in force more restrictive provisions. This is particularly on this point that we have tabled amendments."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "on the situation in Burma", "pos": ["On the situation in Burma."], "neg": ["People with the same business affairs in common are peacefully bound to one another.", "A woman is wearing headphones.", "A black pet dog runs around in the garden of a house.", "The man is smashing garlic.", "As a matter of urgency, therefore, the staff complement of the Interdepartmental Group attached to the Commission Secretariat should be strengthened at the earliest possible opportunity in order to ensure that all proposals for acts which are general in scope are accompanied, when considered by the College of Commissioners and on the basis of Article 299(2), by a simplified sheet outlining their potential impact."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The French Presidency thanks you, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for this cooperation, for your support and also for the warm reception you have given us.", "pos": ["For this cooperation, for your support and also for your warm welcome, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the French Presidency thank you."], "neg": ["The lesson which this Parliament in her debate of this morning must retain is that we are forced to conclude that the maritime laws are, all over the world, in a state of disorder, and that we must harness ourselves with the task to put order at it.", "Officials are trying to retrieve the bodies from the water,\" police officer J.D. Tambe told Reuters, adding 26 of the dead were women.", "Corixa's stock barely flinched on the news, dipping 12 cents to close at $6.88.", "But the inadequate performance of students in various subgroups, such as race, pushed the state onto the needs-improvement list under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.", "I find it rather odd that people are already trying to tie the Commission's hands in relation to the proposal for a directive, while at the same calling on it to present a Green Paper on the current situation with regard to optional and supplementary health insurance schemes."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The lesson for this Parliament this morning must be that we have to conclude that maritime laws throughout the world are in a state of shambles and we have to begin the process of putting them right.", "pos": ["The lesson that must retain this House in her this morning's debate is that we are forced to conclude that the laws are maritime, throughout the world, in a state of mess, and that we must set about the task of them to bring order."], "neg": ["A man is peeling potato.", "Approval of the Minutes of the previous sitting", "London-based NCRI official Ali Safavi told Reuters: \"We condemn this raid, which is in our view illegal and morally and politically unjustifiable.\"", "Chante Jawan Mallard, 27, went on trial Monday, charged with first-degree murder.", "The labelling of beef that was agreed on, which is a minimum form of labelling and only came into force two and a half months ago, does not make it possible for the origin of animals to be adequately traced, and we were very slow to ban specified risk materials."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Secondly, say no to the big bang idea of incorporating candidate countries simultaneously as a large group, since that would militate against the principle that each country should be admitted on its own merits.", "pos": ["Secondly, we must say 'no' to the concept which would be admitted that big bang, but at the same time, a large group of countries, because this would be in contradiction with the principle of the admission of each country on its merits."], "neg": ["Secondly, we must say 'no' to the big bang concept which would admit that at the same time, a large group of countries, because that would be at odds with the principle of the admission of each country according to its merits.", "A woman is slicing a carrot.", "A little girl is playing a grand piano on stage.", "On Monday, EchoStar (DISH: news, chart, profile) shares shrank $1.40, or 4.4 percent, to $30.63.", "A woman is applying eye liner."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Unfortunately, the ultimate objective of a European Constitution would be precisely the opposite, and so, of course, we cannot vote for it.", "pos": ["Unfortunately the final objective of a European Constitution would be exactly the opposite and of course we cannot agree."], "neg": ["This is our priority fight in order to ensure that the affirmation of fundamental rights is put into practice in our political decisions.", "Those who refuse closer cooperation to enjoy the same freedom of movement that passengers in the back seat of a car.", "Three boys in karate costumes are fighting.", "And I am telling you loud and clear: Kostunica must be given his chance here and I therefore hope that he will give amnesty in the next couple of weeks or months, but meanwhile, I do want the introduction of those two new budget lines, democratisation and reconstruction, to be accompanied by political conditions, both from a political and budgetary perspective.", "The very worst situation is when the women concerned also come from distant countries, having taken the work on out of desperation because they have no other way of continuing to provide for themselves."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A step in the right direction, for which the European Parliament has been striving for a long time now, is the creation of a provisional unit for judicial cooperation.", "pos": ["The creation of a provisional unit of judicial cooperation is a step in the right direction, which the European Parliament has been striving for a long time."], "neg": ["The creation of a Provisional Judicial Cooperation Unit is a step in the right direction, which the European Parliament is not a long time ago.", "A man removes a couple of toaster scrambles from a plastic packet.", "A man is doing back flips on a trampoline.", "Grasso quit last week in the wake of a firestorm of criticism over his $140 million compensation package.", "A cat is walking on hardwood floor."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The debate is closed.", "pos": ["The debate is closed."], "neg": ["A woman is slicing pumpkin.", "\"But HRT should not be used to prevent heart disease or any other chronic condition.\"", "As requested by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000, that these initiatives the presidency of the European Council is going to take to play a more active role in order to ensure the full implementation of the UN peace plan?", "The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX rose 6.48 points, or 0.66 percent, to 990.51.", "Just as the European Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe has also considerable experience with regard to these forms of control; we can take as a basis."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Those who stand apart from reinforced cooperation are really being given the same freedom as the back seat passengers in a car.", "pos": ["Those who reject the enhanced cooperation have the same freedom of movement that passengers in the back seat of a car."], "neg": ["Those who refuse and enjoy the same freedom of movement as the passengers out of a car.", "The American Cancer Society and several scientists said the study was flawed in several ways.", "The man played haki sak in the office.", "Do you think that the Austrian model, i.e. bilateral majority resolutions, will be used in future as a way of passing resolutions which bypass the European institutions and of forming a new institution or a new group in order to circumvent unanimity in the Council?", "Best Minister, Scrimshaw, and Ten Most Wanted all had workouts on Monday morning."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Worst of all, I believe, is having to issue a warning that a court judgment in their favour may just be a set of comforting words and make no real difference in their lives.", "pos": ["In my opinion, there is nothing worse than having to inform the people to be made in their favour could be that a series of words and have no worries on their existence."], "neg": ["In my view, however, there is nothing worse than having to warn people that a ruling in their favour could not have been a series of words réconfortants and do not have any consequences concrete on their existence.", "In my view, there is, however, nothing worse than to have to warn the people a ruling in their favour could be a series of reassuring words and have no concrete result on their existence.", "A cat is playing.", "Democrats dominate the Assembly while Republicans control the Senate.", "Cavender did say: \"I felt that if I disagreed with Rosie too much I would lose my job.\""], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "pos": ["By withdrawing our resolution, I am, however, convinced that Parliament would do better to devote its voice, in view of the Nice Council, a specific resolution separate and the extremely important subjects and difficult if the Intergovernmental Conference, rather than treating them within the framework of a single resolution including also all other items on the agenda of the Council."], "neg": ["The resolution on the Nice Summit, which has just been voted, do not reflect.", "The lesson that this House in this morning's debate must learn is that we are forced to conclude that the maritime laws are all over the world, in a state of chaos, and that we must set about the task to sort all this out.", "A man is petting a tied up dog.", "Given this situation, there is an inescapable need for greater involvement and greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment.", "Without doubt, worth it better not to have an agreement that will have an agreement that is wrong and, in this case, the American proposal was a watered-down proposal, unacceptable for Europe."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I should also have liked the Court of Auditors' report to have been a little more user-friendly and to have provided a number of clear recommendations, for example one or two per chapter.", "pos": ["I would also have liked the report of the Court of Auditors was a little more user-friendly and that it had submitted some clear recommendations - for example, one or two recommendations per chapter."], "neg": ["(Applause)", "A woman is playing the guitar.", "Instead he left the courtroom a free man after authorities dismissed criminal charges.", "The commission dropped charges that Patton improperly appointed Conner to the Kentucky Lottery Board and that he improperly appointed Conner's then-husband, Seth, to the Agriculture Development Board.", "Girls are walking on the stage."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Slovakia has not been condemned to the second division and it is logical that it should like to join together with the Czech Republic.", "pos": ["Slovakia is not condemned to remain in the second group and it is logical that it wishes to join the Union at the same time as the Czech Republic."], "neg": ["A man is eating a banana.", "Those who stand apart from reinforced cooperation are really being given the same freedom as the back seat passengers in a car.", "on the situation in Burma", "The privately held Google is believed to be profitable.", "The executives fined included former Chief Executives Paul A. Allaire and G. Richard Thoman as well as former Chief Financial Officer Barry Romeril."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We welcome the arrangements proposed in this respect by the Preparatory Committee and adopted by the General Assembly regarding procedures for the registration of non-governmental organisations for involvement in the preparatory process and the Special Session in September 2001.", "pos": ["We welcome the provisions proposed in this respect by the preparatory committee and decided by the General Assembly in relation to the method of accreditation of non-governmental organisations, at the preparatory process and the special session in September 2001."], "neg": ["Unfortunately, the ultimate objective of a European Constitution would be precisely the opposite, and so, of course, we cannot vote for it.", "Two federal agencies are investigating telecommunications gear maker Lucent Technologies for possible violations of U.S. bribery laws in its operations in Saudi Arabia.", "Wells’ other series include NBC’s ER and Third Watch.", "A man is playing the guitar.", "A man is opening a package containing headphones."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "You do not even intend to incorporate it into the Treaty, evidence indeed that this text, this exercise was always destined to be laid aside.", "pos": ["You do not want to incorporate in the Treaty, which demonstrates that this text should be set aside."], "neg": ["You do not even want to incorporate into the Treaty, which shows that this text should be set aside.", "You do not even want to incorporate into the Treaty, that proves that this text should be set aside.", "You do not want in the Treaty, which shows that this text must be put aside.", "The governor is going to Jackson, where 13 people were killed.", "Halliburton on Tuesday reiterated its contention that KBR had \"delivered fuel to Iraq at the best value, the best price and the best terms\"."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is a vague area, and it is possible that more restrictive provisions may also remain in force, and this is one point in respect of which we have tabled amendments.", "pos": ["It is not clear on this point, and it is not impossible that can also remain in force more restrictive measures, especially on this point than we tabled amendments."], "neg": ["It is not clear on this point, and it is not impossible that can also remain in force for more restrictive provisions. This is particularly on this point that we have tabled amendments.", "A man is eating a food.", "This rule can also apply to all drugs récréationnelles but dangerous, provided that the consumer of drugs is the only one to run risks.", "Let us, here in order to be able to welcome in good conditions the countries that are knocking at our door.", "The grant also funds beach testing in King George County, Norfolk and Virginia Beach."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr Gayssot, Greek ships have sunk without warning, when there were no storms in the vicinity.", "pos": ["Greek ships were sunk, without any storm around, Mr Gayssot."], "neg": ["Vessels, without which there is the slightest, Mr Gayssot.", "Greek vessels flowed, without any storm in around, Mr Gayssot.", "Greek ships ran, without there being the least storm in trimmings, Mr Gayssot.", "Since the first reflexions on this file, which took place at the European level on the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission committed itself with respect to the Member States promoting an action intended to develop what we could regard as a European police culture, centered on the highest standards as regards deontology, of respect for the rights and freedoms of the citizens, and of effectiveness in the fight against crime.", "A man rides a horse."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Unfortunately, the ultimate objective of a European Constitution would be precisely the opposite, and so, of course, we cannot vote for it.", "pos": ["Unfortunately the ultimate objective of a European Constitution would be opposite and obviously we cannot support it."], "neg": ["Let us to organise ourselves Fifteen to welcome in good conditions to the countries knocking at our door.", "The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> was off 7.75 points, or 0.08 percent, at 9,175.47.", ". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and unified European continent.", "A animal is eating.", "Finally, and this is a most controversial issue, the Commission has called vigorously to use the fast-track procedure to implement this legislation."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union.", "pos": ["This is a development of this type that I wish to other States of the European Union."], "neg": ["In my view, however, there is nothing worse than having to warn people that a ruling in their favour could not have been a series of words réconfortants and do not have any consequences concrete on their existence.", "The elderly and those with weakened immune systems are also urged to protect against mosquito bites.", "Common side effects include nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat and cough, the FDA said.", "He also said the academy will get its own internal report next week detailing the seriousness of the remaining problem.", "Negotiators said Friday they made good progress during their latest round of talks on creating a Central American Free Trade Agreement."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market rightly insists on no upper limit and a minimum of no less than 7%.", "pos": ["It is right in saying that the Committee on Legal Affairs continues in the refusal of a ceiling and the maintenance of a minimum rate which cannot be less than 7%."], "neg": ["It is just that the Committee on legal Affairs of the refusal of a ceiling and in the maintenance of a minimum rate which cannot be 7%.", "The woman is thinly slicing a cucumber.", "Question No 6 by (H-0886/00):", "They reported symptoms of fever, headache, rash and muscle aches.", "Unfortunately the ultimate goal of a European Constitution would be exactly the opposite and, of course, we cannot approve it."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It must genuinely be a centre for coordinating the network of national agencies which, in turn, must activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence for food safety at the level of the individual regions.", "pos": ["It must be the true brain of coordination of the network of the national agencies which, in their turn, will have to activate and coordinate a network of centers of excellence of food safety at the regional level."], "neg": ["Charles Cullen, 43, was transferred from the Somerset County Jail in Somerville to the Anne Klein Forensic Center, a 150-bed psychiatric treatment facility in Trenton.", "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "A woman is peeling a potato.", "The lawsuit names Shelley, a Democrat, and registrars in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.", "In Nigeria, Chevron has been accused by the All-Ijaw indigenous people of instigating violence against them and actually paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot protesters at the Warri naval base."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "All those who are at present engaged in illicit work would obtain work with decent social conditions.", "pos": ["All those who work currently out a job in social conditions."], "neg": ["Everyone who works are currently obtiendraient undeclared work in decent social conditions.", "Next week, John S. Reed, the former Citicorp chief executive who Sunday became interim chairman and chief executive of the exchange, will take up his position.", "I was going to the court believing I could do this, only if I played my best tennis.", "Richard Grasso quit as chairman last week after losing the support of his board amid public furor over his $140 million pay package.", "There is urgency and that is why we decided to put this item on the agenda."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "He will stand trial on 8 January on charges of having attended a meeting of the Tunisian opposition in France, which he denies.", "pos": ["It goes trial on 8 January of next year. It is accused of having participated in a meeting of Tunisian opponents in France, as indeed it denies."], "neg": ["It is on trial on 8 January is accused him for having taken part in a meeting of Tunisian opponents in France, which also it denies.", "It happening in trial on 8 January. he is accused of taking part in a meeting of Tunisian opponents in France, what to do deny it.", "It crosses the 8 January of this year. it is to have a Union of Tunisian opponents in France, which Moreover it.", "From the top of the embankment, Moriarty thought, \"He'll be swept over any minute or just die of the cold.\"", "A boy cuts grass with scissors."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The labelling of beef that was agreed on, which is a minimum form of labelling and only came into force two and a half months ago, does not make it possible for the origin of animals to be adequately traced, and we were very slow to ban specified risk materials.", "pos": ["The labelling of beef which was decided, which is a minimum labelling and which came into effect only since two months and half, does not make it possible to suitably recall the origin of the animals and we prohibited well tardily the specified risk materials."], "neg": ["\"Enron company executives engaged in widespread and pervasive fraud,\" prosecutor Samuel Buell told the Associated Press.", "I wonder whether the Commissioner already provides steps which will make it possible to show that we regard Kostunica as the legally elected representative of the Serbian people and as a partner with whom the European Union will now have to deal with.", "The other point of view, illustrated by the example of the original rapporteur and shared by many colleagues, is to promote the regulations and codes of conduct needed to create, between insurers, the forms of mutual costs guaranteeing to all the provision of high-quality care and to counter the risk of seeing develop discriminatory practices and a risk selection and customers.", "But other sources close to the sale said Vivendi was keeping the door open to further bids and hoped to see bidders interested in individual assets team up.", "The dollar fell as low as $1.1624 per euro from $1.1486 on Friday, and traded at $1.1594 at 10:15 a.m. in London."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "As long ago as 1996 the European Parliament came out in favour of a ban on the use of meat-and-bone meal throughout the European Union in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only.", "pos": ["Since 1996, the European Parliament had decided in favour of a prohibition of the use of the bone meals in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle - so only it had been listened to."], "neg": ["In 1996, the European Parliament was in favour of a ban on the use of meat meal in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only we had listened to.", "In 1996, the European Parliament is in favour of a ban on the use in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only they had.", "A man is sprinkling shredded cheese on a pizza.", "The European Council will discuss also of the state of progress of accession negotiations, and therefore, of enlargement.", "Spain has done a magnificent job in turning round the difficult neighbourly relations which Europe and North Africa and Spain and Morocco have suffered during the course of history."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "And I am telling you loud and clear: Kostunica must be given his chance here and I therefore hope that he will give amnesty in the next couple of weeks or months, but meanwhile, I do want the introduction of those two new budget lines, democratisation and reconstruction, to be accompanied by political conditions, both from a political and budgetary perspective.", "pos": ["And I say to you very clearly: we must give its chance Kostunica and I therefore hope that it will provide an amnesty during the weeks and months ahead; but in the meantime, I hope, however, that, politically and in terms of the budget, the political conditions are linked to the introduction of these two new budgetary lines, namely democratisation and reconstruction."], "neg": ["People with the same business affairs in common are peacefully bound to one another.", "A cat is playing with a watermelon on a floor.", "We started to have exchanges on this question, from where it arises that all the Member States wish the maintenance of this ceiling after widening.", "The union had not yet revealed which chain would be targeted.", "A man is drawing."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union.", "pos": ["It is a development of this type which I hope in the other States of the European Union."], "neg": ["A woman puts a baby in a trash can.", "I wonder if the Commissioner has planned any steps in this respect to demonstrate that we really do consider Kostunica to be the only lawfully elected representative of the Serbian people, and the only partner with whom the European Union is involved as from today.", "This is no time for the faint-hearted.", "Do you think that the Austrian model, i.e. bilateral majority resolutions, will be used in future as a way of passing resolutions which bypass the European institutions and of forming a new institution or a new group in order to circumvent unanimity in the Council?", "A man is eating."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Above all, when a one-man company or a company with fewer than 250 employees has a project, it should not need to provide 120% loan guarantees in the form of land to receive financing; it should also be possible for it to be funded on the basis of a good idea.", "pos": ["Above all, unipersonnelle when a company or a society with fewer than 250 employees has a project, it must be possible to receive financing not only with a guarantee to 120%, but also on the basis of a good idea."], "neg": ["Above all, when a business or a society with fewer than 250 a project, it must be possible for a means not only with a guarantee to 120%, but also on the basis of a good idea.", "Above all, when a company or unipersonnelle a society relying less than 250 employees has a project, it must be possible to receive funding not only with a guarantee to 120%, but also on the simple basis of a good idea.", "Especially, when a unipersonal company or a company less cash than 250 paid has a project, it must be possible to be given a financing not only with one guarantee with 120%, but also on the simple basis of an good idea.", "I also voted against a text which calls for the integration of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the future Treaty which will be adopted at Nice.", "This is a development of this kind that I wish the other Member States of the European Union."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I find it rather odd that people are already trying to tie the Commission's hands in relation to the proposal for a directive, while at the same calling on it to present a Green Paper on the current situation with regard to optional and supplementary health insurance schemes.", "pos": ["I find it a little strange to try now to force the Commission to a motion for a resolution and ask him at the same time to draw up a Green Paper on the current state of voluntary insurance and supplementary sickness insurance."], "neg": ["I am a bit of him now to compel the Commission to a motion for a resolution and ask him in a time to establish a Green Paper on the current State of voluntary insurance and health insurance.", "Someone is greating a carrot.", "Lay had argued that handing over the documents would be a violation of his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.", "The comedic mimes performed on stage.", "He said the FDA was hoping Congress and the courts would bring clarity to the situation and some financial relief to consumers."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I stress this point because the market cannot regulate everything, which is why competition is not completely unrestricted, nor should it be.", "pos": ["I stress this point because the market cannot solve all and, in this sense, there cannot be any competition without limits."], "neg": ["I stress this because the market cannot solve all and that, accordingly, there is not and cannot have competition without limits.", "In Nigeria, Chevron has been accused by the All-Ijaw indigenous people of instigating violence against them and actually paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot protesters at the Warri naval base.", "Russ Britt is the Los Angeles Bureau Chief for CBS.MarketWatch.com.", "U.S. Capitol Police evacuated the Capitol yesterday after a sensor detected a possible biohazard in the Senate wing, but authorities later said it was a false alarm.", "A woman is cutting flowers."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement at all than a poor one and it is true that, in this instance, the American proposal was a third-rate proposal, and one which was completely unacceptable to Europe.", "pos": ["Undoubtedly, was it not to have an agreement better than to have an agreement which is bad and, in this case, the American proposal was a proposal with the reduction, completely unacceptable for Europe."], "neg": ["It is necessary to be delighted that the Parliament succeeded in gathering a broad majority in favour of a greater transparency.", "He moved to Syria, where he underwent further religious training in traditional Islamic beliefs.", "A man is playing a flute.", "People with the same business affairs in common are peacefully bound to one another.", "Klarman was arrested by FBI agents in the Hamptons, an exclusive summer resort enclave east of New York City."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is gratifying that Parliament has succeeded in producing a large majority in favour of more openness.", "pos": ["We must welcome the fact that Parliament has managed to gather a large majority in favour of greater transparency."], "neg": ["A man is shown slicing a carrot with a knife.", "A cat is crawling upside down under the couch.", "Someone is putting ingredients into a wok.", "I call on Prague to respond to this signal, this challenge, this plea for dialogue, to grant our request and to ensure, together with our House, that this legacy of a nationalist era can be consigned to the past.", "It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On the contrary, the influence of the national democracies is being reduced by the further restriction of the right of veto and by the fact that the European Parliament is being given more power.", "pos": ["On the contrary, the power of the national democracies decreases in force of limiting increasingly the right of veto and to give ever more power in Parliament of the EU."], "neg": ["On the contrary, the power of the national democracies is increasingly to restrict the right of veto and of giving Parliament more power for the EU.", "We have started to exchange ideas on this question, from which it has emerged that all the Member States want to maintain this ceiling after enlargement.", "A little girl is playing the piano.", "We need to know today, since we are still in uncertainty, what are the scientific data, what are the measures to be taken.", "When Ragin's address was raided, authorities found more than 1,000 credit cards and duplicating machines."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The European Council will also discuss the state of progress of the accession negotiations and hence of the enlargement.", "pos": ["The European Council will also discuss the State of progress of the negotiations on membership, and therefore of the '."], "neg": ["When we are confronted with a potential risk, it is important to put the precautionary principle into practice.", "A man opens a can and pours the contents into a bowl.", "A woman is playing the flute.", "The battle around VeriSign\"s three-week-old Site Finder service rages on.", "Five-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong had a few words of advice for other cancer survivors in Denver on Friday."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Those who stand apart from reinforced cooperation are really being given the same freedom as the back seat passengers in a car.", "pos": ["Those who refuse closer cooperation to enjoy the same freedom of movement that passengers in the back seat of a car."], "neg": ["Those who refuse and enjoy the same freedom of movement as the passengers out of a car.", "Relief is in sight for Texans saddled with skyrocketing homeowners insurance premiums.", "And I really liked him, and I still do.", "A man is playing guitar.", "Lastly, and most controversially, the committee strongly called for the use of a fast-track procedure to implement this legislation."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We have heard that the previous Council Presidency first restructured and then scrapped the Ministry for Equality.", "pos": ["We have heard that the previous presidency was first restructured can dismantled the Ministry of equal opportunities."], "neg": ["We have heard that the first and then the inequality of opportunity.", "That is why I also believe that this reconciliation can have, however, the Government, which has very courageously a solution to the issue of universities and many other problems, needs visible signs of success as well as strong support, otherwise the threatened peace in the region as a whole.", "The director of the Office of Medical Access, Cindy Cripps-Prawak, left her job after the department introduced a plan to distribute marijuana through doctors' offices.", "A woman is cleaning a shrimp.", "The girl danced in front of the bonfire."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar devoted to equal opportunities reinforces the integrated approach to equality through gender mainstreaming and through specific guidelines.", "pos": ["Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar dedicated to equal opportunities reinforces the integrated approach to equality by the mainstreaming and by specific guidelines."], "neg": ["Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar of the approach of the approach adopted by the gender mainstreaming and guidelines.", "A woman is talking on a telephone.", "The meeting was scheduled to end Wednesday night, with attendees approving resolutions that express the denomination's view on issues but that are not binding on churches.", "In the last three weeks, progress has been made in three major areas.", "Congratulations on being named Time magazine's Person of the Year."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to apply the precautionary principle.", "pos": ["When we are confronted with a potential risk, it is important to implement the precautionary principle."], "neg": ["A woman thinly slices an onion with a large knife.", "Two women are dancing.", "\"I urge Congress to quickly resolve any differences and send me the final bill as soon as possible so that I can sign it into law,\" he said.", "A man is karate kicking at another man wearing protective boxing gloves.", ". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united European continent."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We welcome the arrangements proposed in this respect by the Preparatory Committee and adopted by the General Assembly regarding procedures for the registration of non-governmental organisations for involvement in the preparatory process and the Special Session in September 2001.", "pos": ["We welcome the proposed provisions in this respect by the preparatory committee and decided by the General Assembly as regards the way accreditation non-governmental organisations, the preparation process and the special session in September 2001."], "neg": ["There were 293 human cases of West Nile in Indiana in 2002, including 11 deaths statewide.", "A woman is bathing into bath-tub.", "A man is running.", "If it's a Bill Gates Comdex keynote, it must be time for new Tablet PCs.", "We shall have to speak with just one disagreeable voice in the WTO."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A step in the right direction, for which the European Parliament has been striving for a long time now, is the creation of a provisional unit for judicial cooperation.", "pos": ["The creation of a provisional unit of legal cooperation constitutes a step in the right direction, not to which the European Parliament aspires for a long time already."], "neg": ["The creation of a Provisional Judicial Cooperation Unit is a step in the right direction, which the European Parliament is not a long time ago.", "But I would like to say to Parliament this afternoon that we should not lose sight of the fact that the EU spends just 1% of GDP and much of that is administered in the Member States.", "The lady poured the rice pudding into a bowl.", "Spain has done a magnificent job in turning round the difficult neighbourly relations which Europe and North Africa and Spain and Morocco have suffered during the course of history.", "Micron has declared its first quarterly profit for three years."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to apply the precautionary principle.", "pos": ["When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to implement the precautionary principle."], "neg": ["The confusion capped a tumultuous week for the list, which is intended to block about 80 percent of telemarketing calls.", "A man is moon-walking across a store.", "Ridge said no real explosives or harmful devices will be used in the exercise.", "The three grocery chains were relying on store managers and replacement workers to keep their stores open.", "\"Your withdrawal from our country is inevitable, whether it happens today or tomorrow, and tomorrow will come soon.\""], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "From the first discussions on this dossier, which were held at European level at the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission has given a commitment to the Member States to pursue a course of action designed to develop what we might call a European police culture, grounded in the highest standards of duty, respect for the rights and freedoms of our citizens and efficiency in the fight against crime.", "pos": ["Since the first, on this issue, which took place at the European level on the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission is in relation to the Member States to promote an action intended to what we could consider as a culture, on the standard them in the matter of respect for the rights and freedoms of the citizens, and effectiveness in the fight against crime."], "neg": ["In addition, the Justice Department said that the FBI has conducted ''fewer than 10'' investigations involving visits to mosques.", "A girl is applying makeup on her face.", "The labelling of beef that was agreed on, which is a minimum form of labelling and only came into force two and a half months ago, does not make it possible for the origin of animals to be adequately traced, and we were very slow to ban specified risk materials.", "The man played his guitar.", "Mr President, my dear colleagues, I would like to intervene on the common resolution which of course we will."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to say a few words on the joint resolution, which will, of course, be passed.", "pos": ["Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to speak on the joint resolution that of course we will."], "neg": ["Mr. President, my honourable Members, I would like to intervene on the joint resolution that obviously we will vote.", "Mr President, my dear colleagues, I would like to intervene on the common resolution which of course we will.", "A man is thinking.", "The man ran and jumped against the wall.", "A woman is brushing her feet."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "These objectives, the main one and the secondary ones, will be the touchstone by which the concrete proposals submitted by the Commission must be judged.", "pos": ["These objectives, the objective of primary and secondary objectives, the cornerstone of allowing us to judge the concrete proposals by the Commission."], "neg": ["These objectives, the secondary primary objective and objectives, will represent the stone of key enabling us to consider the concrete proposals presented by the Commission.", "These objectives, the secondary objective and objectives, will represent the touchstone of enabling us to consider the specific proposals presented by the Commission.", "Emile Laroza, 51, contracted SARS while working as a nurse at North York General Hospital, the epicentre of the second SARS outbreak.", "A girl jumps on a car.", "Kroger's Ralphs chain and Albertsons immediately locked out their grocery workers in a show of solidarity."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "on the situation in Burma", "pos": ["on the situation in Burma."], "neg": ["- My party has serious reservations about Community law applying to the sale of consumer products, as against applying the concept of mutual recognition of standards.", "This is no time for the faint-hearted.", "A guy is talking into a microphone.", "A man is talking.", "Net revenue rose to $3.99 billion from $3.85 billion during the same quarter last year."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "pos": ["By withdrawing our resolution, I express however the conviction that our Parliament would have better done to hear its voice while devoting, for Conseil of Nice, a resolution specific and distinct with the so important and so difficult topics to the intergovernmental Conference, rather than to treat them within the framework of one only resolution also including all the other points of about an agenda of the Council."], "neg": ["She insisted, though, that it not be published until after her death.", "Micron has declared its first quarterly profit for three years.", "The monkey scratched his tummy.", "You do not even want to incorporate it into the Treaty, which shows that this text was to be put to one side.", "The European Council will discuss the state of progress of accession negotiations, and therefore of enlargement."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda.", "pos": ["There is urgency and that is why we have decided to put this item on the agenda."], "neg": ["It is an urgent matter and it is to this that we have to put this point to the order of the day.", "Mr. Sweeney outlined plans for the campaign in a speech last night in Philadelphia at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.", "Amgen shares gained 93 cents, or 1.45 percent, to $65.05 in afternoon trading on Nasdaq.", "A group of people are sweeping water out of a house.", "A person is putting shredded cheese in a pot."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That is what we have done: we have avoided a budgetary crisis by going to Article 272; the financial perspective has been maintained, even though we have used the flexibility instrument.", "pos": ["That is what we have done: we have avoided a budgetary crisis by returning to Article 272; the financial perspective has been maintained, even if we have used the flexibility instrument."], "neg": ["The annual report is to identify such potential improvements.", "A man removes a couple of toaster scrambles from a plastic packet.", "A woman is playing a guitar and singing.", "But I would like to say to Parliament this afternoon that we should not lose sight of the fact that the EU spends just 1% of GDP and much of that is administered in the Member States.", "A big cat opens a plastic drawer with his paws and then hops inside."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A step in the right direction, for which the European Parliament has been striving for a long time now, is the creation of a provisional unit for judicial cooperation.", "pos": ["The establishment of a provisional unit of judicial cooperation is a step in the right direction, not to which the European Parliament wants a long time ago."], "neg": ["The creation of a Provisional Judicial Cooperation Unit is a step in the right direction, which the European Parliament is not a long time ago.", ". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united European continent.", "Davey graduated Saturday from Northwest College, which is affiliated with the Assemblies of God, with a bachelor of arts degree in religion and philosophy.", "A girl is playing a guitar.", "Griffith, 77, grew up in Mount Airy and now lives in Manteo."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I would urge the French Presidency to do their utmost to overcome this divide, because it is extremely destructive.", "pos": ["I appeal urgently to the French Presidency to do everything in its power to bridge this gap particularly destructive."], "neg": ["I make an urgent appeal to the Presidency to do everything in its power to fill this role.", "I launch an urgent appeal with the French presidency so that it does all that is in its capacity to fill this particularly destroying ditch.", "The other viewpoint illustrated by the rapporteur' s initial statement and shared by a number of members is to promote regulations and codes of conduct which are needed in order to establish among insurers ways of organising costs on a mutual basis providing everybody with guaranteed access to high-quality care and to counter the risk of discriminatory practices developing together with risk and client selection.", "If we create a clear and binding framework for the Member States, the various systems have to meet these requirements should have a longer period of put to the test.", "A man takes a slice of pizza."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "One could indeed wish for more and for improvement, but I honestly believe that we have made a good start.", "pos": ["We can indeed want more and better, but quite honestly that I believe this is a good start."], "neg": ["A Washington County man may have the countys first human case of West Nile virus, the health department said Friday.", "(Parliament accepted the oral amendment)", "Mr. Bush did not discuss this when he issued a brief statement yesterday thanking the commission for its work, and saying, \"Our journey into space will go on.\"", "U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus ruled that the Akron-based company should have determined that changes at one of its plants would increase overall pollution emissions.", "This rule can be applied equally to all recreational but dangerous drugs when no one but the person consuming the drug is likely to be affected."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I should also have liked the Court of Auditors' report to have been a little more user-friendly and to have provided a number of clear recommendations, for example one or two per chapter.", "pos": ["I would also have liked to see the report of the Court of Auditors a little more user-friendly and if he had presented a few clear recommendations - for example, one or two recommendations by chapter."], "neg": ["A woman is adding an egg and stirring.", "A man is cutting a plantain.", "There is urgency and therefore we decided to put this point at the order of business.", "Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement at all than a poor one and it is true that, in this instance, the American proposal was a third-rate proposal, and one which was completely unacceptable to Europe.", "Those who stand apart from reinforced cooperation are really being given the same freedom as the back seat passengers in a car."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Secondly, say no to the big bang idea of incorporating candidate countries simultaneously as a large group, since that would militate against the principle that each country should be admitted on its own merits.", "pos": ["Secondly, we must say 'no' to the concept being recognised that the big bang, but at the same time, a large group of countries, because this would be in contradiction with the principle of the admission of each country on its merits."], "neg": ["Secondly, we must say 'no' to the big bang concept which would admit that at the same time, a large group of countries, because that would be at odds with the principle of the admission of each country according to its merits.", "Whilst employment may be the European Union' s priority policy, fisheries, as another economic sector, cannot remain on the sidelines.", "A person is slicing cantaloupe.", "A dog is looking around", "A dog is catching a fish in a river."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Given this situation, there is an inescapable need for greater involvement and greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment.", "pos": ["Given these realities, the need for greater involvement and greater efficiency in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment is essential."], "neg": ["BlueCore3 also implements v1.2's eSCO facility to provide the basis for advanced cordless telephony applications for Bluetooth transmission.", "I urge the French Presidency to should do everything in its power to bridge the gap particularly destructive.", "Approval of the Minutes of the previous session", "A man is playing a guitar.", "There is urgency and that is why we have decided to put this issue on the agenda."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "- My party has serious reservations about Community law applying to the sale of consumer products, as against applying the concept of mutual recognition of standards.", "pos": ["My party has serious reservations about the regulation of the sale of consumer goods through Community legislation, as it expresses reservations about the concept of mutual recognition of standards."], "neg": ["\"The mission of the CAPPS II system has been and always will be aviation security,\" they said.", "If we want to help Indonesia we must act now with money and deeds, not merely words.", "A woman is slipping in the water-tub.", "A development which has made the heavily dependent on capital borrowed.", "Among other things, Microsoft is to comment on proposed remedies in its response."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Given this situation, there is an inescapable need for greater involvement and greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment.", "pos": ["Faced with this situation, the need for greater involvement and greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment is essential."], "neg": ["A cat is opening a drawer and climbing inside.", "\"We are aware of the situation,\" said Assistant US Attorney Todd Greenberg, a counter-terrorism prosecutor in Seattle.", "The security personnel performed ``well within standards'' and the two staff aides were ``very sorry all this happened,'' Gainer said.", "The resolution on the Nice Summit, which has just been passed, does not reflect the.", "A woman is cutting up a carrot with a knife."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Therefore, I also believe that this reconciliation is sustainable, but that the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the university issue and to many other issues, needs visible signs of its success, and powerful support, else peace throughout the region will be under threat.", "pos": ["That is why I also believe that this reconciliation can take; however, the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the issue of universities and many other problems, needs visible signs of success and a strong support, otherwise the peace threatened in the region as a whole."], "neg": ["The joint debate is closed.", "A person is peeling a potato.", "I think we made the right case and did the right thing.\"", "MediaQ's customers include major handheld makers Mitsubishi, Siemens, Palm, Sharp, Philips, Dell and Sony.", "Mr. Mask said Mr. Cullen would be taken from the Somerset County Jail by Thursday and moved to the Ann Klein Forensic Hospital just outside Trenton for psychiatric care."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to apply the precautionary principle.", "pos": ["When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to put into practice the principle of precaution."], "neg": ["On the contrary, the power of the national democracies is being reduced by the further restriction of the right of veto and by the fact that the European Parliament is being given more power.", "Several shots rang out in the darkness, but only one gator had been killed by 11 p.m.", "Garner said self-proclaimed Baghdad mayor Mohammed Mohsen Zubaidi was released 48 hours after his detention in late April.", "A man is playing guitar.", "The European Council will also discuss the progress of the negotiations of adhesion, and thus widening."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We have heard that the previous Council Presidency first restructured and then scrapped the Ministry for Equality.", "pos": ["We have heard that the previous presidency first restructured then dismantled the Ministry for equal opportunities."], "neg": ["We have heard that the first and then the inequality of opportunity.", "Someone is slicing a onion.", "The lawsuit named Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, a Democrat, and the registrars of voters in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.", "I also voted against a text which calls for the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the eventual Treaty of Nice.", "Some people are throwing a dummy off a cliff."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Worst of all, I believe, is having to issue a warning that a court judgment in their favour may just be a set of comforting words and make no real difference in their lives.", "pos": ["In my view, however, there is nothing worse than to have to inform people that a ruling in their favour can only be a series of reassuring words and have no practical effect on their existence."], "neg": ["In my view, however, there is nothing worse than having to warn people that a ruling in their favour could not have been a series of words réconfortants and do not have any consequences concrete on their existence.", "In my view, there is, however, nothing worse than to have to warn the people a ruling in their favour could be a series of reassuring words and have no concrete result on their existence.", "A small kitten is playing a ball.", "Rambus Inc. (nasdaq: RMBS - news - people) shot up 38 percent, making it the biggest percentage gainer on the Nasdaq.", "The euro has slipped as much as four cents since matching a record peak near $1.1935 last week and hitting a record high of 140.90 yen in late May."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": ". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united European continent.", "pos": ["(ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and United European continent."], "neg": ["Israeli soldiers began tearing down settlement outposts in the West Bank yesterday - an Israeli obligation under a new Mideast peace plan.", "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "A cat opens a drawer and climbs inside.", "A cost analysis is under way, said Michael Rebell, CFE's executive director.", "A man is playing guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Either we are in a club or we are out of it and it is particularly important that we accept this.", "pos": ["Either we are part of the club, or we are not and we must therefore we bow to that decision."], "neg": ["Either we are part of the club, we are not and we must, therefore, we have to comply with this.", "All those who work currently out a job in social conditions.", "The Communications Workers Union, which represents more than 2,300 Comcast employees, called the executive pay package excessive when a typical union employee makes about $27,000 annually.", "A woman is slicing egg plant.", "Sobig.F spreads when unsuspecting computer users open file attachments in emails that contain such familiar headings as \"Thank You!,\" \"Re: Details\" or \"Re: That Movie.\""], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That is a shameful state of affairs when we consider that the EU itself is a champion of modernised business practice.", "pos": ["This is a disgrace when you think that the European Union raises a champion of the modernisation of economic life."], "neg": ["This is a disgrace when we think that the European Union is a champion of the modernisation of economic life.", "It is a shame when they believe that the European Union presents itself as the champion of the modernisation of the life!", "A girl dances in the rain.", "In my view, there is nothing worse than having to warn people that a judgment in their favour could only be a series of reassuring words and have no practical effect on their existence.", "A man plays a trumpet."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That is what we have done: we have avoided a budgetary crisis by going to Article 272; the financial perspective has been maintained, even though we have used the flexibility instrument.", "pos": ["It is what we did: we avoided a budgetary crisis while returning in article 272; the financial perspectives were maintained, even if we used the flexibility instrument."], "neg": ["South Africa's Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu says he does not understand all the fuss about appointing a gay bishop, but he has urged homosexual clergy to remain celibate.", "A woman is slipping in the water-tub.", "The company also said it would cut wholesale prices on cassettes and change the suggested retail price to $8.98.", "A woman is peeling an orange.", "The U.S. Capitol was evacuated yesterday after authorities detected a possibly hazardous material in the basement of the Senate wing, Capitol Police said."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Declarations must be followed by concrete steps to trace, freeze, seize and confiscate the proceeds of crime.", "pos": ["The declarations must be followed concrete actions to identify, freeze, seize and confiscate the products of the crime."], "neg": ["SCO changed its name to Tarantella, and Caldera later changed its name to the SCO Group.", "A dog is swimming in a pool.", "I would also have liked the report of the Court of Auditors fusse somewhat more user-friendly and he seen tabled a few clear recommendations - for example, one or two recommendations by chapter.", "More than 100 officers launched the London raids in the final phase of a two-year operation investigating a cocaine and money laundering ring.", "A girl is playing a guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to say a few words on the joint resolution, which will, of course, be passed.", "pos": ["Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to speak on the joint resolution that obviously we shall vote."], "neg": ["Mr. President, my honourable Members, I would like to intervene on the joint resolution that obviously we will vote.", "Mr President, my dear colleagues, I would like to intervene on the common resolution which of course we will.", "A woman is peeling a potato.", "We can indeed want more and better, but quite honestly that I believe this is a good start.", "A man is hiking."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I would urge the French Presidency to do their utmost to overcome this divide, because it is extremely destructive.", "pos": ["I urge the French Presidency to should do everything in its power to bridge the gap particularly destructive."], "neg": ["I make an urgent appeal to the Presidency to do everything in its power to fill this role.", "I launch an urgent appeal with the French presidency so that it does all that is in its capacity to fill this particularly destroying ditch.", "Chief Executive Mickey Robinson was fired for cause in September, the company said last month.", "A woman is riding a horse.", "A man is chopping an onion."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is a matter of the utmost importance and yet has curiously attracted very little public attention.", "pos": ["The most urgent task, which is, however, has not yet a lively interest on the part of the public."], "neg": ["The task, which is however capital, did not arouse an lively interest on behalf of the public yet.", "The task, which is nevertheless capital, has not yet aroused great interest on the part of the public.", "Faced with these realities, the need for greater involvement and greater efficiency in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment is essential.", "For the entire season, the average five-day forecast track error was 259 miles, Franklin said.", "It is a development of this type which I hope in the other States of the European Union."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I call on Prague to respond to this signal, this challenge, this plea for dialogue, to grant our request and to ensure, together with our House, that this legacy of a nationalist era can be consigned to the past.", "pos": ["I invite Prague to seize this sign, this invitation, this request for dialogue, to follow up and to ensure that, together with this House, these reliques an era nationalist may be abandoned."], "neg": ["I invite Prague to seize this, this invitation, this request for dialogue, to respond and to ensure that, together with this House, these relics of a nationalist age can be abandoned.", "I urge that to seize this motion, this invitation, this request of dialogue, to give further and to make sure that, together with this Assembly, these relics of a nationalist might be.", "Above all, when a one-person business or a society with fewer than 250 employees has a project, it must be possible to receive financing not only to guarantee to 120%, but merely on the basis of a good idea.", "The updated products include Pylon Pro, Pylon Conduit, Pylon Anywhere, and Pylon Application Server.", "The European Council will discuss also of the state of progress of accession negotiations, and therefore, of enlargement."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Lastly, and most controversially, the committee strongly called for the use of a fast-track procedure to implement this legislation.", "pos": ["Finally, and this is something which is most controversial, the committee has called vehemently to use the fast-track procedure to implement this legislation."], "neg": ["Before it was removed, the site listed in broken English the rules for hackers who might participate.", "The cat shimmied under the bed.", "A woman is mixing eggs.", "A girl is filing her nails.", "Several ferrets climb out of their cage."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "There is, of course, one crucial event, namely that a start has been made with category four and with looking at ways how we will deal with it, but it is not yet entirely clear whether we have managed to resolve this, partly because the Council refuses to have sufficient input in the attendant thought processes.", "pos": ["There is, of course, a very important point is the fact that we started in category four, with its approach, but we do not yet know very well if we managed to resolve the issue, not least because the Council does not wish to participate sufficiently in the reflection."], "neg": ["A woman is slicing some onions.", "But they don’t realize that until it’s too late (of course) because they’re potential victims in a horror movie.", "The man tased the food.", "The Conference Board reported its U.S. Consumer Confidence Index slipped to 83.5 in June from 83.6 in May.", "Either we belong to the club, or we are not and we must therefore be packed with this decision."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Therefore, I also believe that this reconciliation is sustainable, but that the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the university issue and to many other issues, needs visible signs of its success, and powerful support, else peace throughout the region will be under threat.", "pos": ["This is why I also think that this reconciliation can hold. However, the government, which very courageously found a solution with the question of the universities and many other problems, needs visible signs of the success as well as strong support, under penalty of seeing the peace threatened as a whole of the area."], "neg": ["\"We are expending all available resources toward the investigation,\" said Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg, a counterterrorism prosecutor in Seattle.", "the soccer player kicked the ball side to side between his legs.", "A man is showing a bread.", "A man and a woman is kissing each other.", "Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar dedicated to equal opportunities reinforces the integrated approach of equality by gender mainstreaming and specific guidelines."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is also the position advocated by the rapporteur, and it is shared by the European People' s Party.", "pos": ["It is the position defended by the rapporteur and shared by the European People's Party."], "neg": ["Mr President, we took a great deal of care over preparing the Karamanou report in the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs.", "For the entire season, the average five-day forecast track error was 259 miles, Franklin said.", "Its former chief Mickey Robinson was fired for cause when he left in September, the company said.", "Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement at all than a poor one and it is true that, in this instance, the American proposal was a third-rate proposal, and one which was completely unacceptable to Europe.", "\"The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives.\""], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Approval of the Minutes of the previous sitting", "pos": ["Approval of the Minutes of the previous session"], "neg": ["The things are not clear on this point, and it is not impossible that can also remain in force more restrictive provisions. It is in particular on this point that we introduced amendments.", "Therefore, I also believe that this reconciliation is sustainable, but that the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the university issue and to many other issues, needs visible signs of its success, and powerful support, else peace throughout the region will be under threat.", "Argentine Guillermo Coria and Netherlander Martin Verkerk are in the other half.", "Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to say a few words on the joint resolution, which will, of course, be passed.", "(B5-0794 / 2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on the abduction by Colombia of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerrilla movement."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "(Parliament accepted the oral amendment)", "pos": ["(The House accepts the oral amendment)"], "neg": ["A woman is hitting a man.", "I call on Prague to seize this sign, this invitation, this request for dialogue, to follow them up and to ensure that, together with this House, these relics of a nationalist era can be abandoned.", "Hispanics have officially overtaken African Americans as the largest minority group in the US, according to a report released by the US Census Bureau.", "Shares of M&T, which is based in Buffalo, fell 41 cents, to $91.51.", "A woman is cutting an onion."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Thirdly, acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the individual countries and for the EU as a whole basically depend - and Denmark demonstrated this - on dismantling the social and democratic deficits of European policy.", "pos": ["Thirdly, the acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the various countries and the EU as a whole dependent – the example of Denmark is there for us to show it – elimination on social and democratic deficits for European policy."], "neg": ["Thirdly: the approval of the enlargement and its positive prospects for the different countries and for the EU as a whole and - the example of Denmark is for us to the point - matters of the social and economic policy.", "We have heard that the previous presidency has restructured first and then dismantled the Ministry of equal opportunities.", "The right of a government arbitrarily to set aside its own constitution is the defining characteristic of a tyranny.", "A man is playing a guitar.", "A woman is peeling a potato."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That was changed in the face of criticism, especially from Ireland and France, and a different spin has now been put on it by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer: it is now being portrayed as a user charge for all, including British lorry drivers.", "pos": ["Faced with the criticism, especially those in Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, gave a different interpretation: it is now a tax for all users, including the British drivers of heavy goods vehicles."], "neg": ["Faced with criticism, especially those in Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer gave a new interpretation of it: it is now a tax for all users, including the British drivers of heavy goods vehicles.", "Given the criticisms, particularly those of Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer has given a new interpretation: it would now a tax for all users, including the lorry drivers in the UK.", "I stress this point because the market cannot regulate everything, which is why competition is not completely unrestricted, nor should it be.", "Mr Pollard said: \"This is a terrible personal tragedy and a shocking blow for James's family.", "But the inadequate performance of students in various subgroups, such as race, pushed the state onto the needs-improvement list under the federal No Child Left Behind Act."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "(The sitting was suspended at 2.06 p.m. and resumed at 3 p.m.)", "pos": ["(The meeting, stopped with 14:06, is taken again at 3 p.m.)"], "neg": ["(the sitting was suspended at, is resumed at 3 p.m.)", "I stress this point because the market cannot regulate everything, which is why competition is not completely unrestricted, nor should it be.", "A tiger trys to climb the wall.", "A man is sitting on a rock.", "According to a news release sent by the Terry Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, Florida Speaker Johnnie Byrd will introduce \"Terri's Bill\" during the special session Monday."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I know that in France they have had whole herd slaughter and this does not seem to be the best way forward.", "pos": ["I know that in France, the principle of demolition of the whole herd was applied and that does not seem the best means of fighting this phenomenon."], "neg": ["I know that in France, the principle of the whole and that it does not seem to be the best way to combat this phenomenon.", "I know that in France, the principle of slaughter of the entire herd has been implemented and that this does not seem to be the best way to combat this phenomenon.", "A woman is abusing her child.", "Nevertheless, I would like to say to the House this afternoon that we must not lose sight of the fact that the European Union spends only 1% of the GDP of the Member States and that the bulk of this money is managed in the Member States.", "Nations like Israel and Australia already have such status."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Question No 6 by (H-0886/00):", "pos": ["Question No 6 by (H-0886 / 00):"], "neg": ["A man is playing his guitar.", "\"The figures are becoming catastrophic,\" said Dr. Patrick Pelloux, the president of the association of emergency room physicians.", "That was changed in the face of criticism, especially from Ireland and France, and a different spin has now been put on it by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer: it is now being portrayed as a user charge for all, including British lorry drivers.", "They will keep the pressure on, and they are strengthening their position with the revenue they are generating from delivering mail above 150 grams.", "A girl is filing her nails."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "As long ago as 1996 the European Parliament came out in favour of a ban on the use of meat-and-bone meal throughout the European Union in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only.", "pos": ["In 1996, the European Parliament decided in favour of a ban on the use of meat and bone meal in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle, if only we had listened to."], "neg": ["In 1996, the European Parliament was in favour of a ban on the use of meat meal in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only we had listened to.", "In 1996, the European Parliament is in favour of a ban on the use in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only they had.", "The boy is playing the piano.", "Is it in the food supply?\" says David Ropeik, director of risk communication at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis.", "Unfortunately the ultimate objective of a European Constitution would be opposite and obviously we cannot support it."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Knowledge of foreign languages is accepted as a necessary precursor to mobility.", "pos": ["It is agreed that the knowledge of foreign languages is a necessary precondition for mobility."], "neg": ["A boy whacks a man with a sword.", "A man is writing on a paper.", "Two little girls talk on the telephone.", "The pill, which they call the \"polypill,\" would contain aspirin, a cholesterol-lowering drug, three blood pressure-lowering drugs at half the standard dose and folic acid.", "Mr President, I shall concentrate in my speech on the report by Mrs Lalumière report, that I find well thought-out and clearly formulated."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I also voted against a text which calls for the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the eventual Treaty of Nice.", "pos": ["I have also voted against a text which asks for the incorporation of the Charter of fundamental rights in the future Treaty which will be adopted at Nice."], "neg": ["\"Mr. Bryant is innocent and expects to be completely exonerated,\" Mackey said in a statement.", "A kitten is drinking milk.", "Approval of the Minutes of the previous sitting", "A man plays a piano.", "These objectives, the objective of primary and secondary objectives, the cornerstone of allowing us to judge the concrete proposals by the Commission."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Spain has done a magnificent job in turning round the difficult neighbourly relations which Europe and North Africa and Spain and Morocco have suffered during the course of history.", "pos": ["Spain has developed a remarkably positive way the difficult neighbourhood that has always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco."], "neg": ["Spain has developed a remarkably positive the difficult that always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "Spain has developed in a way the positive extremely difficult neighbourhood that has always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "This is also the position advocated by the rapporteur, and it is shared by the European People' s Party.", "In a mixture of ancient pagan and modern Christian rites, the villagers have staged a series of ceremonies hoping to erase the misfortunes they believe have kept them poor.", "The valid signatures of 897,158 registered California voters must be collected and turned in to county election officials by Sept. 2."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The very worst situation is when the women concerned also come from distant countries, having taken the work on out of desperation because they have no other way of continuing to provide for themselves.", "pos": ["The situation is worsening, when it comes to women distant countries which have accepted this work by necessity and which have no alternative to continue to meet their basic needs."], "neg": ["The situation is worse when it comes to women's distant countries which have accepted this work by necessity and who have no alternative to continue supporting themselves to their vital needs.", "Things deteriorate when it is a question of women from countries which have accepted this work and who have no other possibility to continue to provide their basic needs.", "Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda.", "A cat stares into the camera.", "Given this situation, there is an inescapable need for greater involvement and greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is no time for the faint-hearted.", "pos": ["That is not the time to take hesitant."], "neg": ["It is not the moment to be hesitant.", "This is not the time to show.", "Schofield got Toepfer to admit on cross-examination that she ignored many of O'Donnell's suggestions and projects.", "As a matter of urgency, therefore, the staff complement of the Interdepartmental Group attached to the Commission Secretariat should be strengthened at the earliest possible opportunity in order to ensure that all proposals for acts which are general in scope are accompanied, when considered by the College of Commissioners and on the basis of Article 299(2), by a simplified sheet outlining their potential impact.", "Apple Computer Inc. said Monday it exceeded record industry expectations by selling more than 1 million songs since the launch of its online music store a week ago."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The European Council will also discuss the state of progress of the accession negotiations and hence of the enlargement.", "pos": ["The European Council will also discuss the progress of the accession negotiations, and therefore of enlargement."], "neg": ["State police said as many as 30 workers were trapped immediately after the garage collapsed.", "We have started to exchange ideas on this question, from which it has emerged that all the Member States want to maintain this ceiling after enlargement.", "A man looks out the window.", "OPEC producers at a meeting on Wednesday are set to pressure independent oil exporters to contribute to the cartel's next supply cut to allow for the return of Iraqi oil.", "Dewhurst's proposal calls for an abrupt end to the controversial \"Robin Hood\" plan for school finance."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "If we want to help Indonesia we must act now with money and deeds, not merely words.", "pos": ["If we want to help Indonesia, we must intervene now with money and concrete actions, and not only with words."], "neg": ["The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> was off 7.75 points, or 0.08 percent, at 9,175.47.", "A puppy is trying to get out of a bathtub.", "A cat stares into the camera.", "on the situation in Burma.", "A man with glasses is talking."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Council of Europe, along with the Court of Human Rights, has a wealth of experience of such forms of supervision, and we can build on these.", "pos": ["Just as the Court of human rights, the Council of Europe also has a solid experience in this regard such forms of control and we can take as a basis."], "neg": ["Just like the Court of the human rights, the Council of Europe has to him also a solid experiment with regard to such forms of control. We can take it for base.", "Just as the Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe also has a solid experience in terms of such forms of control. We can to base.", "A man is picking up a tree.", "The lesson for us within this House in its debate this morning is that we are forced to conclude that the maritime laws are in the world, in a state of control, and that we must get down to the task to put its house in order.", "When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to implement the precautionary principle."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The other viewpoint illustrated by the rapporteur' s initial statement and shared by a number of members is to promote regulations and codes of conduct which are needed in order to establish among insurers ways of organising costs on a mutual basis providing everybody with guaranteed access to high-quality care and to counter the risk of discriminatory practices developing together with risk and client selection.", "pos": ["The other point of view, illustrated by the comments by the rapporteur and a number of colleagues, is to promote the regulations and codes of conduct for dialogue, between a good supply of guaranteeing the provision of a good practices and to counter the risk of discriminatory practices and a series of risks and customers."], "neg": ["As the European Parliament called for in its resolution of 16 March 2000, they initiatives the European Council Presidency intend to take to play a more active role in order to ensure the full implementation of the UN peace plan?", "However, I would like to say to the House this afternoon that we should not lose sight of the fact that the European Union spends only 1% of GDP of the Member States and that most of this money is managed in the Member States.", "At 12 months there was still a difference in function, although it was not a significant one.", "It is our priority fight so that the affirmation of fundamental rights is implemented in political choices.", "A person is performing tricks on a motorcycle."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar devoted to equal opportunities reinforces the integrated approach to equality through gender mainstreaming and through specific guidelines.", "pos": ["Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar devoted to equal opportunities reinforces the integrated approach of equality by gender mainstreaming and specific guidelines."], "neg": ["Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar of the approach of the approach adopted by the gender mainstreaming and guidelines.", "I would also have liked to see the report of the Court of Auditors fusse a little more user-friendly and it would have put forward some clear recommendations - for example, one or two recommendations by chapter.", "B5-0794/2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on the kidnap in Colombia of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerillas;", "The rapper's lawyer, Mark Gann, didn't return calls for comment.", "Selenski descended down the wall and used the mattress to climb over razor wire."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "From the first discussions on this dossier, which were held at European level at the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission has given a commitment to the Member States to pursue a course of action designed to develop what we might call a European police culture, grounded in the highest standards of duty, respect for the rights and freedoms of our citizens and efficiency in the fight against crime.", "pos": ["Since the first thoughts on this issue, which took place at European level on the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission is committed to the Member States to promote action to develop what we could consider a European police culture, based on the highest standards in terms of ethics, respect for citizens' rights and freedoms, and effectiveness in the fight against crime."], "neg": ["A man is riding a motorcycle.", "I launch an urgent appeal with the French presidency so that it does all that is in its capacity to fill this particularly destroying ditch.", "On my own behalf and on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries, I would ask you, Madam President, to send Parliament' s condolences to the families of the victims and to the local authorities in both Brittany and in Marín, Galicia, from where the majority of the victims came.", "It is gratifying that Parliament has succeeded in producing a large majority in favour of more openness.", "The aim of the annual review is to identify such potential improvements."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union.", "pos": ["It is a policy of this type that I wish to other States of the European Union."], "neg": ["Shares of Allergan fell 14 cents to close at $78.12 on the New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites).", "On the situation in Burma.", "Yes, from today Flash memory purchased from AMD or Fujitsu will be branded Spansion.", "You do not want to even integrate it in the Treaty, which proves that this text was to be put on side.", "A man dives into a swimming pool."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda.", "pos": ["There is urgency and that is why we decided to put this item on the agenda."], "neg": ["It is an urgent matter and it is to this that we have to put this point to the order of the day.", "The creation of a provisional unit of judicial cooperation is a step in the right direction, not to which the European Parliament has been seeking for a long time already.", "It is necessary to know today, since we are still in the uncertainty, which are the scientific, what are the measures to take.", "I should also have liked the Court of Auditors' report to have been a little more user-friendly and to have provided a number of clear recommendations, for example one or two per chapter.", "A chef is slicing a shrimp."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, I would like to focus in my speech on Mrs Lalumière' s report, which I think is clearly worded and well put together.", "pos": ["Mr President, in my speech I shall focus on the report by Mrs LalumiÚre report, which I think is well thought-out and clearly formulated."], "neg": ["Mr. President, we can know the position of the Commission as regards access to public documents by reading the internal handbook which was given, on October 11, with the Commission officials in order to explain the way to them in which they were to treat the requests emanating of the deputies with regard to the access to the documents.", "The benchmark 10-year note was recently down 17/32, to yield 4.067 percent.", "Doctors had planned to deliver him two weeks early, on or around November 14.", "A dog is rolling from side to side.", "But at age 15, she had reached 260 pounds and a difficult decision: It was time to try surgery."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is no time for the faint-hearted.", "pos": ["This is not the time to be hesitant."], "neg": ["It is not the moment to be hesitant.", "This is not the time to show.", "The people are lifting bags.", "Mr President, we took a great deal of care over preparing the Karamanou report in the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs.", "Rusch has also allowed five or more earned runs in each of his last three starts."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is our priority fight in order to ensure that the affirmation of fundamental rights is put into practice in our political decisions.", "pos": ["It is our priority fight so that the affirmation of fundamental rights is implemented in political choices."], "neg": ["There is, of course, a very important point is the fact that we have begun the heading four, with its approach, but we do not yet know very well if we managed to resolve the problem, particularly because the Council does not wish to participate enough food for thought.", "A man is dancing on the ceiling.", "A woman is cutting an onion.", "Shares of Allergan fell 14 cents to close at $78.12 on the New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites).", "A dog knocks a boy into the water twice."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union.", "pos": ["It is an evolution of this type which I wish in the other States of the European Union."], "neg": ["This is our priority fight in order to ensure that the affirmation of fundamental rights is put into practice in our political decisions.", "Do you think that the Austrian 'model' - the majority decisions to be taken in future bilateral - it will be an instrument to take decisions by ignoring the European institutions and to set up a new institution, or a new group, in order to get round the unanimity rule in the Council?", "A woman is cutting potatoes.", "Knowledge of foreign languages is accepted as a necessary precursor to mobility.", "A man guts a fish."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Those who stand apart from reinforced cooperation are really being given the same freedom as the back seat passengers in a car.", "pos": ["Those who refuse enhanced cooperation enjoy the same freedom of movement that passengers in the back seat of a car."], "neg": ["Those who refuse and enjoy the same freedom of movement as the passengers out of a car.", "But other sources close to the sale said Vivendi was keeping the door open to further bids and hoped to see bidders interested in individual assets team up.", "This is a disgrace when we think that the European Union is a champion of the modernisation of economic life.", "I wonder if the Commissioner, for the steps which they show that we consider and as the representative of the Serbian people and as the partner with which the European Union will have to deal with.", "Davey started attending Northwest College, which is affiliated with the Assemblies of God, in 1999 with plans to become a minister."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "- My party has serious reservations about Community law applying to the sale of consumer products, as against applying the concept of mutual recognition of standards.", "pos": ["My party expresses serious reservations about the regulation of the sale of consumer products by means of Community legislation, as it makes reservations about the concept of the mutual recognition of standards."], "neg": ["The baby is laughing and crawling.", "They will keep the pressure on, and they are strengthening their position with the revenue they are generating from delivering mail above 150 grams.", "A man is exercising.", "Emile Laroza, 51, contracted SARS while working as a nurse at North York General Hospital, the epicentre of the second SARS outbreak.", "INTEL TODAY disclosed details of its next-generation XScale processor for mobile phones and handheld devices here in San Jose."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It must genuinely be a centre for coordinating the network of national agencies which, in turn, must activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence for food safety at the level of the individual regions.", "pos": ["It must be true brain of coordination of the network of national agencies which, in turn, will have to activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence in food safety at regional level."], "neg": ["A man is speaking.", "A man is opening a package containing headphones.", "Amgen shares gained 93 cents, or 1.45 percent, to $65.05 in afternoon trading on Nasdaq.", "Secondly, it is necessary to say “not” to the concept big-bang which would like that one admits at the same time an major group of country, because that would be in conflict with the principle of the admission of each country according to its merits.", "I wonder whether the Commissioner already provides steps which will show that we regard Kostunica as the legally elected representative of the Serbian people and as the partner with which the European Union must now address."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Approval of the Minutes of the previous sitting", "pos": ["Approval of the Minutes of the previous sitting"], "neg": ["Two men are fighting in a cattle pen.", "You do not even intend to incorporate it into the Treaty, evidence indeed that this text, this exercise was always destined to be laid aside.", "A man and a woman are walking in the woods.", "The audiotape aired last week by the Arab Al-Jazeera television network appears to be an effort to incite attacks.", "Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement at all than a poor one and it is true that, in this instance, the American proposal was a third-rate proposal, and one which was completely unacceptable to Europe."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A step in the right direction, for which the European Parliament has been striving for a long time now, is the creation of a provisional unit for judicial cooperation.", "pos": ["The creation of a Provisional Judicial Cooperation Unit is a step in the right direction, not to which the European Parliament is aiming for a long time."], "neg": ["The creation of a Provisional Judicial Cooperation Unit is a step in the right direction, which the European Parliament is not a long time ago.", "Texans saddled with skyrocketing homeowners premiums might finally be getting relief.", "I am a bit of him now to compel the Commission to a motion for a resolution and ask him in a time to establish a Green Paper on the current State of voluntary insurance and health insurance.", "A dog is barking at an electronic toy duck.", "Officials are trying to retrieve the bodies from the water,\" police officer J.D. Tambe told Reuters, adding 26 of the dead were women."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Slovakia has not been condemned to the second division and it is logical that it should like to join together with the Czech Republic.", "pos": ["Slovakia is not to remain in the second Group and it is logical that it wants to join the Union at the same time that the Czech Republic."], "neg": ["A man is slicing bread.", "A man is dancing on the ceiling.", "That compared with a year-earlier profit of $102 million, or 13 cents a share.", "Do you think that the Austrian model, i.e. bilateral majority resolutions, will be used in future as a way of passing resolutions which bypass the European institutions and of forming a new institution or a new group in order to circumvent unanimity in the Council?", "It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to apply the precautionary principle.", "pos": ["When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to put into practice the precautionary principle."], "neg": ["A woman is writing something.", "A woman is cutting an onion.", "A man is running.", "A woman is boiling shrimp.", "A woman is peeling a potato."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We welcome the arrangements proposed in this respect by the Preparatory Committee and adopted by the General Assembly regarding procedures for the registration of non-governmental organisations for involvement in the preparatory process and the Special Session in September 2001.", "pos": ["We are pleased with proposed arrangements in this respect by the committee preparatory and decided by the General Assembly with regard to the mode of accreditation of the governmental organizations, with the preparatory process and the extraordinary session of September 2001."], "neg": ["Part of the accord was the implementation of a special health council that would monitor health spending and progress in reforming the health system.", "If employment is the political priority of the Union, the fishing industry, as the economic sector, cannot remain on the sidelines.", "The baby is laughing and crawling.", "The University of Michigan released today a new admissions policy after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down in June the way it previously admitted undergraduates.", "Hovan did not speak, but his lawyer, John Speranza, said his client \"did not wake up that day\" intending to hurt anyone."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That is a shameful state of affairs when we consider that the EU itself is a champion of modernised business practice.", "pos": ["This is a disgrace when we think that the European Union presents itself as the champion of the modernisation of economic life!"], "neg": ["This is a disgrace when we think that the European Union is a champion of the modernisation of economic life.", "It is a shame when they believe that the European Union presents itself as the champion of the modernisation of the life!", "\"I have acknowledged that I behaved inappropriately,\" he said.", "A woman is slicing an onion.", "But other sources close to the sale said Vivendi was keeping the door open for further bids in the next day or two."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I think that France has set an excellent example by finally deciding to take this step.", "pos": ["I find exemplary that France will be resolved to take this step."], "neg": ["In Nigeria, Chevron has been accused by the All-Ijaw indigenous people of instigating violence against them and actually paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot protesters at the Warri naval base.", "LURD's Ja'neh also called for an interim government and the deployment of a U.S.-led Western peacekeeping force.", "The matter could then be sent to the U.N. Security Council.", "The establishment of a provisional unit of judicial cooperation is a step in the right direction, not to which the European Parliament wants a long time ago.", "Griffith, a Mount Airy native, now lives on the North Carolina coast in Manteo."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On my own behalf and on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries, I would ask you, Madam President, to send Parliament' s condolences to the families of the victims and to the local authorities in both Brittany and in Marín, Galicia, from where the majority of the victims came.", "pos": ["Madam the President, I ask you, in the name of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries and in my proper name, to send a message of sympathy on behalf of the Parliament to the families of the victims and to the local authorities both of Brittany and of Marín, town of Galicia, from where are originating the majority in the victims."], "neg": ["Just as the Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe also has a solid experience in terms of such forms of control. We can to base.", "A man is dancing.", "A woman is shooting off a gun.", "About 100 firefighters are in the bosque today, Albuquerque Fire Chief Robert Ortega said.", "Mr President, I voted in favour of the Garcia-Margallo y Marfil report, which concerns the taxation of services provided electronically."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, we took a great deal of care over preparing the Karamanou report in the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs.", "pos": ["Mr President, the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Internal Affairs has prepared with great care the Karamanou report."], "neg": ["A woman opens a window.", "Clearly, explanations are necessary for the increased incidence of BSE, not only in France but also in other Member States.", "A woman is doing ballet.", "B5-0794 / 2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on Colombia removal of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerrilla;", "Lastly, and it is there a subject more discussed, the commission invited with strength to make use of the procedure accelerated to put in uvre this legislation."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is also the position advocated by the rapporteur, and it is shared by the European People' s Party.", "pos": ["This is the position defended by the rapporteur and shared by the European People's Party."], "neg": ["A man pours gasoline.", "After a weak start, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day up 26.26 to 9,217.35, while the S&P 500 index rose 3 to 980.59.", "A girl is waking up.", "Given this situation, there is an inescapable need for greater involvement and greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment.", "Turkish authorities have said all the suicide bombers were Turks."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": ". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united European continent.", "pos": ["- (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and unified European continent."], "neg": ["Ballmer has been vocal in the past warning that Linux is a threat to Microsoft.", "The labelling of beef which was decided, which is a minimum labelling and which came into effect only since two months and half, does not make it possible to suitably recall the origin of the animals and we prohibited well tardily the specified risk materials.", "A grains management committee normally meets each Thursday in the Commission's agriculture unit -- another target of Wednesday's raids -- to decide the outcome of a weekly export tender.", "I should like to thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, Mr Brok, for his clear, comprehensive report.", "Mr Bush arrives on Tuesday on the first state visit by an American President."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, I would like to focus in my speech on Mrs Lalumière' s report, which I think is clearly worded and well put together.", "pos": ["Mr President, in my speech I shall focus on the report by Mrs Lalumière, report that I think it is well thought-out and clearly formulated."], "neg": ["Shares of Allergan were up 14 cents at $78.40 in late trading on the New York Stock Exchange.", "A woman is ridint a horse.", "This is the position defended by the rapporteur and shared by the European People's Party.", "Two men are practicing football.", "A girl is playing a flute."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Given this situation, there is an inescapable need for greater involvement and greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment.", "pos": ["In view of these realities, the need for greater involvement and greater efficiency in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment is essential."], "neg": ["Do you think the Austrian model '' - namely the bilateral majority decision-making - will in future an instrument to take decisions by ignoring the European institutions and to set up a new institution, or a new group, in order to get round the unanimity rule in the Council?", "A man is putting cheese on a tortilla.", "A person is driving a motorcycle on a road.", "License sales, a key measure of demand, fell 21 percent to $107.6 million.", "The Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market rightly insists on no upper limit and a minimum of no less than 7%."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "As a matter of urgency, therefore, the staff complement of the Interdepartmental Group attached to the Commission Secretariat should be strengthened at the earliest possible opportunity in order to ensure that all proposals for acts which are general in scope are accompanied, when considered by the College of Commissioners and on the basis of Article 299(2), by a simplified sheet outlining their potential impact.", "pos": ["Thus, it is urgent that manpower of the Interdepartmental Group are very quickly reinforced with the cur of the General Secretariat of the Commission, so that all the proposals of act of general scope can be accompanied, during their examination by the college on basis of Article 299, paragraph 2, of a detailed impact statement."], "neg": ["Thus, it is imperative that the inter-service Group are very quickly, of the Commission, so that all the proposals to act can be, during their examination by the force on the basis of Article 299, paragraph 2, a detailed impact.", "Bush said U.S. and European Union leaders, at an annual Washington summit, agreed on the need to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons.", "In my view, there is, however, nothing worse than having to warn people that a ruling for them could only be a series of words pleasing and have no practical effect on their existence.", "These objectives, the main one and the secondary ones, will be the touchstone by which the concrete proposals submitted by the Commission must be judged.", "A dog is barking at a toy."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "There is, of course, one crucial event, namely that a start has been made with category four and with looking at ways how we will deal with it, but it is not yet entirely clear whether we have managed to resolve this, partly because the Council refuses to have sufficient input in the attendant thought processes.", "pos": ["There is, of course, a very important point is the fact that we have begun the heading four, with its approach, but we do not yet know very well if we managed to resolve the problem, particularly because the Council does not wish to participate enough food for thought."], "neg": ["The girls danced on the stage.", "The joint economic activities create peaceful links between peoples.", "It is urgent and that is why we have decided to put this item on the agenda.", "\"Spin and manipulative public relations and propaganda are not the answer,\" it said.", "Thirdly: the acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the various countries and for the EU as a whole depend – the example of Denmark is there for us to show this - the elimination of social and democratic deficits of European policy."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The French Presidency thanks you, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for this cooperation, for your support and also for the warm reception you have given us.", "pos": ["For this cooperation, for your support and also for your reception, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen of the European Parliament, the French Presidency thanks you."], "neg": ["Sources in the racing industry said Fontana will get a second NASCAR race on Labor Day weekend starting next season.", "The other viewpoint illustrated by the rapporteur' s initial statement and shared by a number of members is to promote regulations and codes of conduct which are needed in order to establish among insurers ways of organising costs on a mutual basis providing everybody with guaranteed access to high-quality care and to counter the risk of discriminatory practices developing together with risk and client selection.", "A man is playing the guitar.", "Dennehy, who transferred to Baylor last year after getting kicked off the University of New Mexico Lobos for temper tantrums, became a born-again Christian in June 2002.", "A woman is squeezing a lemon."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Firstly, simplification and clarification of the Treaties.", "pos": ["First, that of a simplification and clarification of the Treaties."], "neg": ["The man is mixing whipping cream.", "on the situation in Burma", "A man slices an onion.", "(Parliament accepted the oral amendment)", "A toy train is striking a toy car."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It must genuinely be a centre for coordinating the network of national agencies which, in turn, must activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence for food safety at the level of the individual regions.", "pos": ["It must be the real brains of coordination of the network of national agencies which, in turn, will have to activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence on food safety at regional level."], "neg": ["While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "A slow loris is eating.", "A man is playing guitar.", "Kollar-Kotelly has scheduled another antitrust settlement compliance hearing for January.", "A man is speaking."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr Gayssot, Greek ships have sunk without warning, when there were no storms in the vicinity.", "pos": ["The Greek ships have sunk, without there being the slightest storm in its neck of the woods, Mr Gayssot."], "neg": ["Vessels, without which there is the slightest, Mr Gayssot.", "Greek vessels flowed, without any storm in around, Mr Gayssot.", "Greek ships ran, without there being the least storm in trimmings, Mr Gayssot.", "If we want to help Indonesia we must act now with money and deeds, not merely words.", "A woman is writing a letter."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "B5-0794/2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on the kidnap in Colombia of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerillas;", "pos": ["(B5-0794 / 2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on the abduction by Colombia of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerrilla movement."], "neg": ["(B5-0794 / 2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Linkohr, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists and the Group of the Party of European Socialists, from a Spanish in the negotiations with the;", "B5-0794 / 2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on Colombia removal of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerrilla;", "A man is opening a box using a knife.", "A woman is slipping in the water-tub.", "We shall have to speak with just one disagreeable voice in the WTO."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "As there is still a lot of uncertainty, we must know what the scientific facts are and what action must be taken.", "pos": ["We need to know today, since we are still in uncertainty, which are the scientific data, which are the measures to be taken."], "neg": ["It is accepted that the knowledge of languages is a reference to the mobility.", "Someone is playing paino.", "Thank you very much, Commissioner.", "Agriculture ministers from more than one hundred nations are expected to attend the three-day Ministerial Conference and Expo on Agricultural Science and Technology sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.", "My Party to serious and about the rules of the sale of consumer products by means of the Community, just as it sets about the concept of mutual recognition of standards."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Given this situation, there is an inescapable need for greater involvement and greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment.", "pos": ["Vis-a-vis these realities, the need for a greater implication and a greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and the underdevelopment is essential."], "neg": ["All those who are at present engaged in illicit work would obtain work with decent social conditions.", "The British Foreign Office said it had mediated the two men's release.", "So in his State of the Union address in January, Bush declared that the British government \"has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.\"", "The euro's rise against the yen and speculation of Japanese intervention helped the dollar firm to 117.25 yen , well above a 10-month low of 116 yen hit on Thursday.", "A woman is seasoning a piece of meat."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Do you think that the Austrian model, i.e. bilateral majority resolutions, will be used in future as a way of passing resolutions which bypass the European institutions and of forming a new institution or a new group in order to circumvent unanimity in the Council?", "pos": ["Do you think that the Austrian 'model' - the majority decisions to be taken in future bilateral - it will be an instrument to take decisions by ignoring the European institutions and to set up a new institution, or a new group, in order to get round the unanimity rule in the Council?"], "neg": ["Do you think that the model of the \"-\" - namely the majority - will be in the future as a means of taking in ignoring the European institutions and to a new institution, or a new Group, to be able to bypass the rule of unanimity in the Council?", "A woman is frying ground meat.", "A man sliced through a bunch of water bottles with a knife.", "A cat is playing.", "MSN Messenger 6 will be available for download starting at 6 p.m. GMT on Wednesday from http://messenger.msn.com/download/v6preview.asp."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Thirdly, acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the individual countries and for the EU as a whole basically depend - and Denmark demonstrated this - on dismantling the social and democratic deficits of European policy.", "pos": ["Thirdly: the positive acceptance of enlargement and its prospects for the various countries and the EU as a whole largely depend - the example of Denmark east there for us to show it - elimination on the social and democratic deficits for the European policy."], "neg": ["Thirdly: the approval of the enlargement and its positive prospects for the different countries and for the EU as a whole and - the example of Denmark is for us to the point - matters of the social and economic policy.", "In the last three weeks, progress has been made in three major areas.", "The girl applied face makeup to a man.", "Kroger Co., which owns Ralphs, and Albertsons Inc. bargain jointly with Safeway and locked out their union workers the next day.", "It must be respected and protected' ."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Those who stand apart from reinforced cooperation are really being given the same freedom as the back seat passengers in a car.", "pos": ["Those who reject reinforced cooperation enjoy the same freedom of movement that passengers back the seat of a car."], "neg": ["Those who refuse and enjoy the same freedom of movement as the passengers out of a car.", "A woman is handling a frog.", "The man is seasoning the vegetables.", "Unfortunately, the ultimate objective of a European Constitution would be precisely the opposite, and so, of course, we cannot vote for it.", "Thus, it is imperative that the inter-service Group are very quickly, of the Commission, so that all the proposals to act can be, during their examination by the force on the basis of Article 299, paragraph 2, a detailed impact."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The joint debate is closed.", "pos": ["The joint debate is closed."], "neg": ["A woman is adding an egg and stirring.", "The driver of the truck escaped and is now being sought by the police, Supoyo said.", "You do not even intend to incorporate it into the Treaty, evidence indeed that this text, this exercise was always destined to be laid aside.", "The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI edged up 13.33 points, or 0.15 percent, to 9,196.55.", "I have already replied to this point and I agree entirely with what he said about the need to improve considerably the public debate I will not repeat what I said, but it is true that, all too often, citizens feel alienated to decisions that are taken in bodies that they do not know."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The right of a government arbitrarily to set aside its own constitution is the defining characteristic of a tyranny.", "pos": ["The right to a government of arbitrarily its Constitution is the definition of a dictatorship."], "neg": ["TVT Records sought $360 million in punitive damages and $30 million in compensatory damages, officials said.", "U.S. Capitol Police evacuated the Capitol yesterday after a sensor detected a possible biohazard in the Senate wing, but authorities later said it was a false alarm.", "Chante Jawaon Mallard, 27, is charged with murder and tampering with evidence.", "Two roosters are fighting.", "Thousands of revellers, celebrating the decision, vowed to push for more legal rights, including same-sex marriages."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "If we want to help Indonesia we must act now with money and deeds, not merely words.", "pos": ["If we want to help Indonesia, we must intervene now with money and concrete action, and not just with words."], "neg": ["The labelling of beef that was agreed on, which is a minimum form of labelling and only came into force two and a half months ago, does not make it possible for the origin of animals to be adequately traced, and we were very slow to ban specified risk materials.", "Air Canada, the largest airline in Canada and No. 11 in the world, has been under court protection from creditors since April 1.", "The girl is spraying the plants with water.", "Mr President, we can see the Commission's position in terms of public access to documents by reading the internal manual which was given on 11 October, with the Commission officials in order to explain the way in which they were to deal with the requests from the Members with regard to access to documents.", "Faced with criticisms, particularly those of Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer has given a new interpretation: it is now a matter of resources for all users, including the drivers of heavy goods vehicles."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Question No 6 by (H-0886/00):", "pos": ["Question No 6 by (h 0886 / 00):"], "neg": ["He added: \"There is no doubt about the chemical programme, the biological programme and indeed the nuclear weapons programme.", "His protest led to a 47-hour standoff with police that caused huge traffic jams in downtown Washington and northern Virginia.", "A girl is waking up.", "Mr. President, I will concentrate in my intervention on the report/ratio of Mrs. Lalumière, report/ratio which I find formulated well conceived and clearly.", "The woman is peeling lemon."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": ". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united European continent.", "pos": ["Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a European continent strong and united."], "neg": ["With the Expose feature, all open windows shrink to fit on the screen but are still clear enough to identify.", "Authorities performed an autopsy Thursday on one of three bodies recovered from beneath a layer of freshly poured concrete in the basement of a northwest Indiana home.", "She, in turn, occasionally told John that she was still sleeping with an ex-boyfriend, \"Baywatch\" hunk Michael Bergin.", "A woman is shooting a gun.", "It exploded in his hands, but the former Italian prime minister was unhurt."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The French Presidency thanks you, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for this cooperation, for your support and also for the warm reception you have given us.", "pos": ["For this cooperation, for your support and for your kind welcome, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the French Presidency thank you."], "neg": ["A girl is putting on makeup.", "A woman is in the rain.", "A woman who underwent such an abortion could not be prosecuted under the bill.", "A woman is puncturing a potato with a fork.", "On the situation in Burma."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This rule can be applied equally to all recreational but dangerous drugs when no one but the person consuming the drug is likely to be affected.", "pos": ["This rule can also apply to all récréationnelles but dangerous drugs as far as the consumer of drugs is the only one to risks."], "neg": ["This rule can also apply to all drugs récréationnelles but dangerous as far as the consumer of drugs should be the only to run risks.", "This could also apply to all drugs but dangerous insofar as the consumer of drugs is the only to run risks.", "This rule can apply to all drugs récréationnelles provided that the consumer but dangerous drugs is the only to run risks.", "I think that France has set an excellent example by finally deciding to take this step.", "The cat tried to eat the corn on the cob."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "If we want to help Indonesia we must act now with money and deeds, not merely words.", "pos": ["If we want to help Indonesia, we now have to intervene with money and concrete actions, and not only with words."], "neg": ["On the contrary, the influence of the national democracies is being reduced by the further restriction of the right of veto and by the fact that the European Parliament is being given more power.", "The man is seasoning the sausages.", "The man is playing with a skull.", "They underwent more tests over the weekend, and are now warded at Raffles Hospital.", "A man is singing and playing a guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "At Feira, the Council considered those countries participating in the Stabilisation and Association Process as potential applicants for membership of the European Union.", "pos": ["In Feira, he recognised the quality of potential candidates for accession to the countries participating in the stabilisation and association process."], "neg": ["In Feira, he recognized the quality of potential candidates to adhesion with the countries taking part in the stabilisation process and of association.", "In it, he has recognised the quality of potential candidates for membership in the countries participating in the stabilisation and association process.", "On the other hand, if this will help further establish Steve's innocence, we welcome it.\"", "After a weak start, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day up 26.26 to 9,217.35, while the S&P 500 index rose 3 to 980.59.", "A dog is stealing food from a refrigerator."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The lesson for this Parliament this morning must be that we have to conclude that maritime laws throughout the world are in a state of shambles and we have to begin the process of putting them right.", "pos": ["The lesson which this Parliament in her debate of this morning must retain is that we are forced to conclude that the maritime laws are, all over the world, in a state of disorder, and that we must harness ourselves with the task to put order at it."], "neg": ["B5-0794/2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on the kidnap in Colombia of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerillas;", "\"Tomorrow at the Mission Inn, I have the opportunity to congratulate the governor-elect of the great state of California.", "A person is combing a cat hair.", "That was the biggest drop since August 1993 and stemmed from falling prices for cars, trucks, men's and boys' clothes and cigarettes.", "The acquisition has been approved by both companies' board of directors and is expected to close in the third quarter this year."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Approval of the Minutes of the previous sitting", "pos": ["Approval of the official report of the previous sitting"], "neg": ["A woman rubs a baby's leg.", "BlueCore3-Multimedia contains an open platform DSP co-processor and also includes a 16-bit stereo audio codec with dual ADC and DAC for stereo audio.", "The American decision provoked an angry reaction from the European Commission, which described the move as \"legally unwarranted, economically unfounded and politically unhelpful\".", "Two boys are skate boarding.", "A man is rinsing a large steak."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Thirdly, acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the individual countries and for the EU as a whole basically depend - and Denmark demonstrated this - on dismantling the social and democratic deficits of European policy.", "pos": ["Thirdly: the acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the various countries and for the EU as a whole depend – the example of Denmark is there for us to show this - the elimination of social and democratic deficits of European policy."], "neg": ["Thirdly: the approval of the enlargement and its positive prospects for the different countries and for the EU as a whole and - the example of Denmark is for us to the point - matters of the social and economic policy.", "As there is still a lot of uncertainty, we must know what the scientific facts are and what action must be taken.", "Mr President, we cannot know the position of the Commission in the matter of public access to documents in reading the Commission has that has been postponed, on 11 October, the officials of the Commission in order to explain the way in which they had to deal with the requests in this regard access to documents.", "The monkey swung from branch to branch.", "A man is chopping a tree trunk with an axe."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "After all, it is by no means certain that the proposed definition of equitable price is better than any other, because the various definitions that are currently in use in the Member States are all perfectly satisfactory.", "pos": ["Indeed, there is absolutely no doubt that the definition of fair price that is proposed is better than another, because the definitions used in the Member States currently sufficient all amply."], "neg": ["Indeed, it is not absolutely certain that the definition of fair price which is better than another, because the definitions used in the Member States in all amply sufficient.", "Indeed, it is absolutely not certain only the definition of fair price which is proposed is better than another, because the various definitions used currently in the Member States are enough all amply.", "In fact, it is not absolutely certain that the definition of price that is proposed is better than another, because the different currently in the Member States all fully.", "Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda.", "China's Health Ministry said five more people had died of Sars and a further 159 were infected."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "(The sitting was suspended at 2.06 p.m. and resumed at 3 p.m.)", "pos": ["(The sitting was suspended at 14h06 and resumed at 3 p.m.)"], "neg": ["(the sitting was suspended at, is resumed at 3 p.m.)", "Baker called a pregame meeting, believing the the corked-bat episode had distracted the team.", "A man is playing a guitar.", "A woman is adding spices on a meat.", "\"I know this sounds counterintuitive, but it's true: City-grown pollution -- and ozone in particular -- is tougher on country trees,\" U.S. ecologist Jillian Gregg said."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Finally, I welcome the idea that we should review the implementation of the programme annually.", "pos": ["Finally I accomodate the idea favorably to give us an annual appointment in order to take stock of the setting in uvre program."], "neg": ["This rule can be applied equally to all recreational but dangerous drugs when no one but the person consuming the drug is likely to be affected.", "Tour doctors later confirmed that he had broken his right leg near the hip and also sustained wrist and elbow fractures.", "Those who stand apart from reinforced cooperation are really being given the same freedom as the back seat passengers in a car.", "A man plays the guitar.", "From the first discussions on this dossier, which were held at European level at the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission has given a commitment to the Member States to pursue a course of action designed to develop what we might call a European police culture, grounded in the highest standards of duty, respect for the rights and freedoms of our citizens and efficiency in the fight against crime."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "At Feira, the Council considered those countries participating in the Stabilisation and Association Process as potential applicants for membership of the European Union.", "pos": ["In Feira, it has recognised the quality of potential candidates for accession to the countries participating in the stabilisation and association process."], "neg": ["In Feira, he recognized the quality of potential candidates to adhesion with the countries taking part in the stabilisation process and of association.", "In it, he has recognised the quality of potential candidates for membership in the countries participating in the stabilisation and association process.", "A monkey is playing drums.", "A woman is slicing an onion.", "A woman is cutting an onion."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to say a few words on the joint resolution, which will, of course, be passed.", "pos": ["Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to speak on the joint resolution that we will obviously vote."], "neg": ["Mr. President, my honourable Members, I would like to intervene on the joint resolution that obviously we will vote.", "Mr President, my dear colleagues, I would like to intervene on the common resolution which of course we will.", "I would urge the French Presidency to do their utmost to overcome this divide, because it is extremely destructive.", "A man is talking.", "A man is playing a guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "And I am telling you loud and clear: Kostunica must be given his chance here and I therefore hope that he will give amnesty in the next couple of weeks or months, but meanwhile, I do want the introduction of those two new budget lines, democratisation and reconstruction, to be accompanied by political conditions, both from a political and budgetary perspective.", "pos": ["And I say it very clearly to you: it is necessary to give its chance to Kostunica and I hope since it will take care of an amnesty during the weeks or of the months to come; but meanwhile, I wish however that, on the political plan and the budgetary term, of the political conditions be coupled with the introduction of these two special budget headings, namely democratization and the rebuilding."], "neg": ["The U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected ImClone's original application in December 2001, saying the trial had been sloppily conducted.", "The new companies will begin trading on Nasdaq today under the ticker symbols PLMO and PSRC.", "The grant also funds beach testing in King George County, Norfolk and Virginia Beach.", "Spain has done a magnificent job in turning round the difficult neighbourly relations which Europe and North Africa and Spain and Morocco have suffered during the course of history.", "If employment is the political priority of the Union, the fishing industry, as the economic sector, cannot remain on the sidelines."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We have started to exchange ideas on this question, from which it has emerged that all the Member States want to maintain this ceiling after enlargement.", "pos": ["We started discussions on this issue, which show that all the Member States wish to maintaining this ceiling after enlargement."], "neg": ["The task, which is capital, has not yet been a lively interest on the part of the public.", "Thirdly: the positive acceptance of enlargement and its prospects for the various countries and the EU as a whole largely depend - the example of Denmark east there for us to show it - elimination on the social and democratic deficits for the European policy.", "Mr McDonnell is leading Grant Thornton International's inquiry into the Italian business.", "As there is still a lot of uncertainty, we must know what the scientific facts are and what action must be taken.", "Sally Baldwin, from York, was killed instantly when a walkway collapsed and she fell into the machinery at Tiburtina station."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Let us, as a Europe of 15 Member States, organise ourselves in order to be able to welcome those countries who are knocking at the door into the fold under respectable conditions.", "pos": ["We must organise ourselves in fifteen Member States, to be able to welcome in good conditions for the countries which are knocking on our door."], "neg": ["Gartner's report said global WLAN equipment shipments reached 19.5 million last year, a 120 percent increase over 2001's 8.9 million units.", "A monkey pratices martial arts.", "We speak with a single voice Language‒describes within the WTO.", "The UK Labour Members of the PSE Group welcome the favourable reception reserved for the contribution they have made to the ongoing work of the IGC on reinforced cooperation, without endorsing totally at all the details of this.", "A man is stuffing himself full with food."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Thank you very much, Commissioner.", "pos": ["Thank you very much, Mister the Police chief."], "neg": ["The new analysis found that 32 of 16,608 participants developed ovarian cancer in about 5 1/2 years of follow-up, including 20 women taking hormones.", "LIPA Chairman Richard Kessel said that meant the cable could be used \"as we see fit.", "Furthermore, we would like to be able to demonstrate in Europe which we are able to develop only the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia, recognising the true democratic principles.", "Jodie Singer, a sixth-grader from Washington, D.C., anxiously awaited her turn at the microphone.", "When Ragin's address was raided, authorities found more than 1,000 credit cards and duplicating machines."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Those who stand apart from reinforced cooperation are really being given the same freedom as the back seat passengers in a car.", "pos": ["Those who deny the enhanced cooperation enjoy the same freedom of movement as passengers in the back seat of a car."], "neg": ["Those who refuse and enjoy the same freedom of movement as the passengers out of a car.", "It is our priority fight so that the affirmation of fundamental rights is implemented in political choices.", "It will take time to oust die-hard remnants of Saddam Hussein's deposed regime in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday.", "A man is chopping coriander leaf.", "The intervention force will confiscate weapons, reform the police, strengthen the courts and prison system and protect key institutions such as the Finance Ministry."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The European Council will also discuss the state of progress of the accession negotiations and hence of the enlargement.", "pos": ["The European Council will also be discussing the state of progress of accession negotiations, and therefore of enlargement."], "neg": ["B5-0794/2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on the kidnap in Colombia of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerillas;", "People who have opposed these actions throughout are now trying to find fresh reasons to say this wasn't the right thing to do.\"", "Penn Traffic stock closed Wednesday at 36 cents, up 2 cents, or 6.2 percent, from Tuesday's close.", "Shares of McDonald's rose $1.83, or 8.3 percent, to close at the day's high of $23.89.", "A man is spitting."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, the Commission' s attitude to the right of access to documents may be seen from the internal handbook sent on 11 October to employees of the Commission to tell them how to deal with requests from MEPs for access to documents.", "pos": ["Mr President, we know the position of the Commission on public access to documents in reading the internal manual, which was submitted, on 11 October, the Commission's officials in order to explain the way in which they were to deal with the requests from the Members regarding access to documents."], "neg": ["That is what we have done: we avoided a budgetary crisis back to Article 272, the financial perspective has been maintained, even if we use the flexibility instrument.", "I should like to thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, Mr Brok, for his clear, comprehensive report.", "Advancers outnumbered decliners by nearly 8 to 3 on the NYSE and more than 11 to 5 on Nasdaq.", "This is America, my friends, and it should not happen here,\" he said to loud applause.", "A guy is talking into a microphone."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It must be respected and protected' .", "pos": ["It must be respected and protected."], "neg": ["We have started to have exchanges on this issue, it emerges that all the Member States wish to the maintenance of this ceiling after enlargement.", "A person is peeling shrimp.", "Things worse when it comes to women's distant countries which accepted this work by need and which have no other option to continue to provide for their vital needs.", "A man is pouring oil into a pan.", "(Applause)"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Lastly, and most controversially, the committee strongly called for the use of a fast-track procedure to implement this legislation.", "pos": ["Finally, and this is a more controversial topic, the Committee has called with vigour to make use of the fast-track procedure to implement this legislation."], "neg": ["Above all, when a one-man company or a company with fewer than 250 employees has a project, it should not need to provide 120% loan guarantees in the form of land to receive financing; it should also be possible for it to be funded on the basis of a good idea.", "The cat fished a straw out ouf his water dish.", "A man is mooing.", "The report aims to identify such improvements.", "The women are feeding the animal."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Declarations must be followed by concrete steps to trace, freeze, seize and confiscate the proceeds of crime.", "pos": ["The debate must be followed by concrete actions to identify, freeze, seize and confiscate the proceeds of crime."], "neg": ["In my view, however, there is nothing worse than having to warn people that a ruling in their favour could not have been a series of words réconfortants and do not have any consequences concrete on their existence.", "Hilsenrath and Klarman each were indicted on three counts of securities fraud.", "A new study, conducted in Europe, found the medicine worked just as well as an earlier disputed study, sponsored by ImClone Systems, said it did.", "The U.S. Capitol was evacuated yesterday after authorities detected a possibly hazardous material in the basement of the Senate wing, Capitol Police said.", "I also voted against a text which calls for the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the future Treaty, which will be adopted in Nice."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "B5-0794/2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on the kidnap in Colombia of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerillas;", "pos": ["B5-0794/2000, Misters Medina Ortega, Linkohr and Fava, in the name of the Europeans Group of the European Socialist, on removal in Colombia of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in the negotiations with the guerrilla;"], "neg": ["(B5-0794 / 2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Linkohr, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists and the Group of the Party of European Socialists, from a Spanish in the negotiations with the;", "B5-0794 / 2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on Colombia removal of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerrilla;", "\"We're in the Stanley Cup finals, and it was a little bit embarrassing the way we played in the first two games.", "A man is breaking wooden boards with his hand.", "Sliding down the embankment, the two rescuers hit the spongy, rocky floor of the river and immediately felt the pull."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On the other hand, we would like to be given a chance to prove to Europe that we are able to develop the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia on our own, by recognising the genuine principles of democracy.", "pos": ["Furthermore, we would have a chance to demonstrate to Europe that we are able to develop their own constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia, recognising the true democratic principles."], "neg": ["In addition, we would like to have a chance to prove to the Europe that we are in a position to alone the cause of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia, while recognizing the principles.", "He said FDA hopes Congress and the courts will bring clarity to the situation and some financial relief to consumers — perhaps before the 2004 elections.", "Someone is holding and petting a baby tiger.", "A group of men are dancing.", "B5-0794/2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on the kidnap in Colombia of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerillas;"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That is what we have done: we have avoided a budgetary crisis by going to Article 272; the financial perspective has been maintained, even though we have used the flexibility instrument.", "pos": ["That is what we have done: we have avoided a budgetary crisis by returning to Article 272; the financial perspectives have been maintained, even if we have used the flexibility instrument."], "neg": ["Parents received letters informing them of the possible contamination yesterday.", "Women swimmers are diving in from the starting platform.", "Schofield got Toepfer to admit on cross-examination that she ignored many of O'Donnell's suggestions and projects.", "I have also voted against a text which asks for the incorporation of the Charter of fundamental rights in the future Treaty which will be adopted at Nice.", "Given these realities, the need for greater involvement and greater efficiency in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment is essential."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This rule can be applied equally to all recreational but dangerous drugs when no one but the person consuming the drug is likely to be affected.", "pos": ["This rule can, moreover, apply to all drugs récréationnelles but dangerous provided that the consumer of drugs is the only run the risks."], "neg": ["This rule can also apply to all drugs récréationnelles but dangerous as far as the consumer of drugs should be the only to run risks.", "This could also apply to all drugs but dangerous insofar as the consumer of drugs is the only to run risks.", "This rule can apply to all drugs récréationnelles provided that the consumer but dangerous drugs is the only to run risks.", "A woman rapidly fires a handgun.", "The launch coincides with the JavaOne developers' conference in San Francisco this week."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar devoted to equal opportunities reinforces the integrated approach to equality through gender mainstreaming and through specific guidelines.", "pos": ["Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar dedicated to equal opportunities reinforces the integrated approach of equality by gender mainstreaming and specific guidelines."], "neg": ["Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar of the approach of the approach adopted by the gender mainstreaming and guidelines.", "A man is talking.", "In September, Hewlett-Packard signed a development and marketing deal with the company.", "\"I'm going to try to march with a number of different groups,\" Bloomberg said.", "Next week, John S. Reed, the former Citicorp chief executive who Sunday became interim chairman and chief executive of the exchange, will take up his position."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Above all, when a one-man company or a company with fewer than 250 employees has a project, it should not need to provide 120% loan guarantees in the form of land to receive financing; it should also be possible for it to be funded on the basis of a good idea.", "pos": ["Above all, when a one-person business or a society with fewer than 250 employees has a project, it must be possible to receive financing not only to guarantee to 120%, but merely on the basis of a good idea."], "neg": ["Above all, when a business or a society with fewer than 250 a project, it must be possible for a means not only with a guarantee to 120%, but also on the basis of a good idea.", "Above all, when a company or unipersonnelle a society relying less than 250 employees has a project, it must be possible to receive funding not only with a guarantee to 120%, but also on the simple basis of a good idea.", "Especially, when a unipersonal company or a company less cash than 250 paid has a project, it must be possible to be given a financing not only with one guarantee with 120%, but also on the simple basis of an good idea.", "The woman is peeling lemon.", "Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": ". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united European continent.", "pos": ["- (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united continent of Europe."], "neg": ["The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> gave up 11.91 points, or 1.19 percent, at 986.60.", "A person is performing a card trick.", "The two dogs were in the pen.", "In recent weeks, three major progress has been made.", "All those who are at present engaged in illicit work would obtain work with decent social conditions."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Therefore, I also believe that this reconciliation is sustainable, but that the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the university issue and to many other issues, needs visible signs of its success, and powerful support, else peace throughout the region will be under threat.", "pos": ["This is why I also think that this reconciliation can hold. however, the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the question and to many other problems, need visible signs of success so that a strong support to the peace in the whole of the region."], "neg": ["A cat is playing with a watermelon.", "Two boys are playing a video game.", "In the last three weeks, progress has been made in three major areas.", "Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to speak on the joint resolution that we shall, of course, be voting.", "Mr. President, we can know the position of the Commission as regards access to public documents by reading the internal handbook which was given, on October 11, with the Commission officials in order to explain the way to them in which they were to treat the requests emanating of the deputies with regard to the access to the documents."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "But I would like to say to Parliament this afternoon that we should not lose sight of the fact that the EU spends just 1% of GDP and much of that is administered in the Member States.", "pos": ["Nevertheless I would wish to say to the Parliament this afternoon that we should not lose sight of the fact the fact that the European Union spends only 1% of the GDP of the Member States and that the largest part of this money is managed in the Member States."], "neg": ["Nevertheless, I would like to say to the idea that we must not lose sight of the fact that the European Union does not believe that 1% of the GDP of the Member States and that the bulk of this money is managed in the Member States.", "The European Council will also discuss the progress of the negotiations of adhesion, and thus widening.", "But church members and observers say they anticipate that the decision here could pose doctrinal problems for some Episcopalians who believe the Bible prohibits homosexuality.", "A man is kicking a soccer ball.", "Intel Corp.'s second-quarter profits doubled and revenues grew 8 percent from a year ago as the chip-making giant reported stronger-than-expected demand for personal computer microprocessors."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "You do not even intend to incorporate it into the Treaty, evidence indeed that this text, this exercise was always destined to be laid aside.", "pos": ["You do not even want to incorporate into the Treaty, which proves that this text should be put to one side."], "neg": ["You do not even want to incorporate into the Treaty, which shows that this text should be set aside.", "You do not even want to incorporate into the Treaty, that proves that this text should be set aside.", "You do not want in the Treaty, which shows that this text must be put aside.", "Nevertheless I would wish to say to the Parliament this afternoon that we should not lose sight of the fact the fact that the European Union spends only 1% of the GDP of the Member States and that the largest part of this money is managed in the Member States.", "A man takes a slice of pizza."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On the contrary, the influence of the national democracies is being reduced by the further restriction of the right of veto and by the fact that the European Parliament is being given more power.", "pos": ["On the contrary, the influence of the national democracies decreases by limit always more the right of veto and to give always more capacity to the Parliament of the EU."], "neg": ["On the contrary, the power of the national democracies is increasingly to restrict the right of veto and of giving Parliament more power for the EU.", "Do you believe that the Austrian model \"’ – namely bilateral majority decision-making - will in future an instrument to take decisions by ignoring the European institutions and start a new institution, or a new group, to get round the unanimity rule in the Council?", "And I am telling you loud and clear: Kostunica must be given his chance here and I therefore hope that he will give amnesty in the next couple of weeks or months, but meanwhile, I do want the introduction of those two new budget lines, democratisation and reconstruction, to be accompanied by political conditions, both from a political and budgetary perspective.", "Faced with criticisms, particularly those of Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer has given a new interpretation: it is now a matter of resources for all users, including the drivers of heavy goods vehicles.", "On Sunday, a U.S. soldier was killed and another injured when a munitions dump they were guarding exploded in southern Iraq."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Lastly, and most controversially, the committee strongly called for the use of a fast-track procedure to implement this legislation.", "pos": ["Finally, and this is a more controversial subject, the Commission to make use of the procedure for the implementation of this legislation."], "neg": ["I invite Prague to seize this sign, this invitation, this request for dialogue, to take action pursuant and to make to it so that, in.liaison.with this Parliament, these one nationalist era old relics can be abandoned.", "I should also have liked the Court of Auditors' report to have been a little more user-friendly and to have provided a number of clear recommendations, for example one or two per chapter.", "Rapper C-Murder has been convicted of second-degree murder, a crime that carries an automatic life sentence, in the shooting death of a 16-year-old inside a Jefferson Parish nightclub.", "Two women are sitting close to each other and talking.", "All those who are at present engaged in illicit work would obtain work with decent social conditions."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Firstly, simplification and clarification of the Treaties.", "pos": ["First of all, the simplification and clarification of the Treaties."], "neg": ["The only instance in which no tax is levied is when the supplier is in a non-EU country and the recipient is in a Member State of the EU.", "After that, college President Paul Pribbenow told him to wrap up his speech.", "The tech-laced Nasdaq Composite Index gained 2.90 points, or 0.18 percent, to 1,606.87.", "A man is playing a violin.", "It is accepted that the knowledge of languages is a reference to the mobility."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union.", "pos": ["This is of such a development that I hope the other Member States of the European Union."], "neg": ["The American Anglican Council, which represents Episcopalian conservatives, said it will seek authorization to create a separate group.", "Mr Gayssot, Greek ships have sunk without warning, when there were no storms in the vicinity.", "This is also the position advocated by the rapporteur, and it is shared by the European People' s Party.", "- My party has serious reservations about Community law applying to the sale of consumer products, as against applying the concept of mutual recognition of standards.", "Let us, here in order to be able to welcome in good conditions the countries that are knocking at our door."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, I voted for the García-Margallo y Marfil report on the taxation of electronic commerce.", "pos": ["Mr President, I voted for the García-Margallo y Marfil report, which concerns the taxation of services provided by electronic means."], "neg": ["Mr President, I voted in favour of the García-Margallo y Marfil report, which concerns the taxation of services provided by way.", "A man is playing soccer.", "Finally, and this is a most controversial issue, the Commission has called vigorously to use the fast-track procedure to implement this legislation.", "The man is walking.", "The virus killed 44 people in the Toronto area, including one doctor and two nurses."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Firstly, simplification and clarification of the Treaties.", "pos": ["Firstly, that of a simplification of the Treaties."], "neg": ["In his letter, McBride charges the Free Software Foundation and Red Hat with trying to undermine U.S. copyright laws.", "As the European Parliament has called for in its resolution of 16 March 2000, they initiatives European Council Presidency intend to take to play a more active role in order to ensure the full implementation of the UN peace plan?", "It must genuinely be a centre for coordinating the network of national agencies which, in turn, must activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence for food safety at the level of the individual regions.", "Let us, as a Europe of 15 Member States, organise ourselves in order to be able to welcome those countries who are knocking at the door into the fold under respectable conditions.", "The labelling of beef that was agreed on, which is a minimum form of labelling and only came into force two and a half months ago, does not make it possible for the origin of animals to be adequately traced, and we were very slow to ban specified risk materials."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Thank you very much, Commissioner.", "pos": ["Thank you very much, Commissioner."], "neg": ["The things worsen when it is question of women of distant countries who accepted this work by need and who do not have any other possibility to continue to provide for their vital needs.", "All those who are at present engaged in illicit work would obtain work with decent social conditions.", "Thirdly, acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the individual countries and for the EU as a whole basically depend - and Denmark demonstrated this - on dismantling the social and democratic deficits of European policy.", "A man is sprinkling shredded cheese on a pizza.", "The Council of Europe, along with the Court of Human Rights, has a wealth of experience of such forms of supervision, and we can build on these."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Therefore, I also believe that this reconciliation is sustainable, but that the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the university issue and to many other issues, needs visible signs of its success, and powerful support, else peace throughout the region will be under threat.", "pos": ["That is why I also believe that this reconciliation can have, however, the Government, which has very courageously a solution to the issue of universities and many other problems, needs visible signs of success as well as strong support, otherwise the threatened peace in the region as a whole."], "neg": ["The man is pouring broth into the pot.", "As there is still a lot of uncertainty, we must know what the scientific facts are and what action must be taken.", "When we are confronted with a potential risk, it is important to put the precautionary principle into practice.", "He is suspected of being a key figure in Jemaah Islamiyah, the al-Qa'eda-linked terror group which has been blamed for the bombings.", "In Nigeria, Chevron has been accused by the All-Ijaw indigenous people of instigating violence against them and actually paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot protesters at the Warri naval base."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is a vague area, and it is possible that more restrictive provisions may also remain in force, and this is one point in respect of which we have tabled amendments.", "pos": ["The things are not clear on this point, and it is not impossible that can also remain in force more restrictive provisions. It is in particular on this point that we introduced amendments."], "neg": ["It is not clear on this point, and it is not impossible that can also remain in force for more restrictive provisions. This is particularly on this point that we have tabled amendments.", "I wonder if the Commissioner has planned any steps in this respect to demonstrate that we really do consider Kostunica to be the only lawfully elected representative of the Serbian people, and the only partner with whom the European Union is involved as from today.", "You do not want to incorporate in the Treaty, which demonstrates that this text should be set aside.", "A man is playing a piano.", "State police said as many as 30 workers were trapped immediately after the garage collapsed."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I think that France has set an excellent example by finally deciding to take this step.", "pos": ["I think it is exemplary that France is resolved to take that step."], "neg": ["Fifty-seven senators, including 24 Republicans, have signed the letter.", "Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to say a few words on the joint resolution, which will, of course, be passed.", "We have heard that the previous presidency has first restructured and then dismantled the Ministry of equal opportunities.", "These objectives, the main one and the secondary ones, will be the touchstone by which the concrete proposals submitted by the Commission must be judged.", "I would also that the report of the Court of Auditors was that it had some clear recommendations - for example, one or two recommendations by chapter."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Spain has done a magnificent job in turning round the difficult neighbourly relations which Europe and North Africa and Spain and Morocco have suffered during the course of history.", "pos": ["Spain has developed a remarkably positive the difficult neighbourhood, which has always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco."], "neg": ["Spain has developed a remarkably positive the difficult that always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "Spain has developed in a way the positive extremely difficult neighbourhood that has always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "In a show of corporate solidarity, Kroger Co., which owns Ralphs, and Albertson Inc. locked out their workers the next morning.", "A target is being hit with gun fire.", "Only Intel Corp. has a lower dividend yield."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "He will stand trial on 8 January on charges of having attended a meeting of the Tunisian opposition in France, which he denies.", "pos": ["It happening in trial on 8 January. He is accused of having attended a meeting of Tunisian opponents in France, which he denies."], "neg": ["It is on trial on 8 January is accused him for having taken part in a meeting of Tunisian opponents in France, which also it denies.", "It happening in trial on 8 January. he is accused of taking part in a meeting of Tunisian opponents in France, what to do deny it.", "It crosses the 8 January of this year. it is to have a Union of Tunisian opponents in France, which Moreover it.", "The grant also funds beach testing in King George County, Norfolk and Virginia Beach.", "A cat is playing with a watermelon."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I should also have liked the Court of Auditors' report to have been a little more user-friendly and to have provided a number of clear recommendations, for example one or two per chapter.", "pos": ["I would also have liked to see the report of the Court of Auditors fusse a little more user-friendly and it would have put forward some clear recommendations - for example, one or two recommendations by chapter."], "neg": ["From 1996, the European Parliament has declared itself in favour of a ban on the use of meat and bone meal in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle - only if we had listened.", "Since the first thoughts on this issue, which took place at European level on the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission committed itself in relation to the Member States to promote an action intended to develop what we could describe as a European Commissioner culture, based on the highest standards of ethics, respect for human rights and freedoms, and effectiveness in the fight against crime.", "A man is playing the trumpet.", "Mr President, I would like to focus in my speech on Mrs Lalumière' s report, which I think is clearly worded and well put together.", "Secondly, say no to the big bang idea of incorporating candidate countries simultaneously as a large group, since that would militate against the principle that each country should be admitted on its own merits."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "These objectives, the main one and the secondary ones, will be the touchstone by which the concrete proposals submitted by the Commission must be judged.", "pos": ["These objectives, the primary objective and secondary objectives, will be the yardstick for judging the concrete proposals put forward by the Commission."], "neg": ["These objectives, the secondary primary objective and objectives, will represent the stone of key enabling us to consider the concrete proposals presented by the Commission.", "These objectives, the secondary objective and objectives, will represent the touchstone of enabling us to consider the specific proposals presented by the Commission.", "A man is dancing upside-down on the ceiling.", "A cat is swinging on a fan.", "\"I notice a mood change in their priorities,\" one politician said."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The right of a government arbitrarily to set aside its own constitution is the defining characteristic of a tyranny.", "pos": ["The right for a government to remove arbitrarily its constitution is defining characteristic of a tyranny."], "neg": ["A woman is scrubbing a zucchini with a vegetable brush.", "Only Intel Corp. has a lower dividend yield.", "He will stand trial on 8 January on charges of having attended a meeting of the Tunisian opposition in France, which he denies.", "Mr Levine said she had been offered $400,000 to tell her story to an Australian TV network.", "A person is peeling a potato."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We have started to exchange ideas on this question, from which it has emerged that all the Member States want to maintain this ceiling after enlargement.", "pos": ["We have started to have exchanges on this issue, where it emerges that all the Member States want the maintenance of this ceiling after enlargement."], "neg": ["The Connecticut Hospital Association joined the Red Cross Monday in calling for more blood donors.", "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "A child runs into and out of the ocean waves.", "The Council of Europe, along with the Court of Human Rights, has a wealth of experience of such forms of supervision, and we can build on these.", "For the 12-month period ending June 30, high-speed lines installed in homes and businesses increased by 45 percent."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The French Presidency thanks you, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for this cooperation, for your support and also for the warm reception you have given us.", "pos": ["For this cooperation, for your support and also for your reception, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe, the French Presidency would like to thank you."], "neg": ["Emile Laroza, 51, contracted SARS while working as a nurse at North York General Hospital, the epicentre of the second SARS outbreak.", "Those who refuse and enjoy the same freedom of movement as the passengers out of a car.", "I should like to thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, Mr Brok, for his clear, comprehensive report.", "Therefore, I also believe that this reconciliation is sustainable, but that the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the university issue and to many other issues, needs visible signs of its success, and powerful support, else peace throughout the region will be under threat.", "A woman is eating a cupcake."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is our priority fight in order to ensure that the affirmation of fundamental rights is put into practice in our political decisions.", "pos": ["This is our priority struggle for the affirmation of fundamental rights has found expression in political choices."], "neg": ["The woman is riding a horse.", "The European Council will also discuss the state of progress of the accession negotiations and hence of the enlargement.", "A man is working on his laptop.", "The women are feeding the animal.", "Three men are practicing karate moves in a field."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I should also have liked the Court of Auditors' report to have been a little more user-friendly and to have provided a number of clear recommendations, for example one or two per chapter.", "pos": ["I would have also wished that the report of the Court of Auditors was a little more convivial and that it had presented some clear recommendations - for example, one or two recommendations per chapter."], "neg": ["The right of a government arbitrarily to set aside its own constitution is the defining characteristic of a tyranny.", "A woman is dicing some peeled potatoes cut into thick strips.", "Researchers found the fossils in a semidesert area of Venezuela, about 250 miles west of Caracas.", "Meningitis is an infection of the fluid in a person's spinal cord and around the brain.", "A man lifts weights."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I find it rather odd that people are already trying to tie the Commission's hands in relation to the proposal for a directive, while at the same calling on it to present a Green Paper on the current situation with regard to optional and supplementary health insurance schemes.", "pos": ["I find a little strange to want as of now forcing the Commission with a motion for resolutions and to ask him in the same time to establish one Green Paper on the current state of the voluntary insurances and the complementary health insurances."], "neg": ["I am a bit of him now to compel the Commission to a motion for a resolution and ask him in a time to establish a Green Paper on the current State of voluntary insurance and health insurance.", "Thus, it is urgent that the inter-service group staff should be strengthened very quickly at the heart of the General Secretariat of the Commission, so that all proposals to act of general scope can be accompanied, during their examination by the college on the basis of Article 299(2), a detailed impact statement.", "Thirdly, acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the individual countries and for the EU as a whole basically depend - and Denmark demonstrated this - on dismantling the social and democratic deficits of European policy.", "A man is playing a guitar.", "A person is boiling noodles."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "They will keep the pressure on, and they are strengthening their position with the revenue they are generating from delivering mail above 150 grams.", "pos": ["They will continue to put pressure. The money that they earn with the distribution beyond the limit of 150 grams allows them to strengthen their position."], "neg": ["Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda.", "A woman is playing a flute.", "In Feira, he has recognised the quality of potential candidates for accession to the countries participating in the stabilisation and association process.", "Since the first thoughts on this issue, which took place at European level on the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission is committed to the Member States to promote action to develop what we could consider a European police culture, based on the highest standards in terms of ethics, respect for citizens' rights and freedoms, and effectiveness in the fight against crime.", "She took the highly unusual step of skipping cabinet to attend a meeting with the presidents of Rwanda and Uganda."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I wonder if the Commissioner has planned any steps in this respect to demonstrate that we really do consider Kostunica to be the only lawfully elected representative of the Serbian people, and the only partner with whom the European Union is involved as from today.", "pos": ["I wonder whether the Commissioner already provides steps which will show that we regard Kostunica as the legally elected representative of the Serbian people and as the partner with which the European Union must now address."], "neg": ["I wonder if the Commissioner, for the steps which they show that we consider and as the representative of the Serbian people and as the partner with which the European Union will have to deal with.", "Mr President, the Commission' s attitude to the right of access to documents may be seen from the internal handbook sent on 11 October to employees of the Commission to tell them how to deal with requests from MEPs for access to documents.", "MediaQ's customers include major handheld makers Mitsubishi, Siemens, Palm, Sharp, Philips, Dell and Sony.", "The UK Labour Members of the PSE Group welcome the favourable reception reserved for the contribution they have made to the ongoing work of the IGC on reinforced cooperation, without endorsing totally at all the details of this.", "A boy is playing the trumpet."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "There has been a budget heading for the funding of mine clearance and prevention programmes for many years now.", "pos": ["A budget line financing demining and prevention programmes for years."], "neg": ["A budget line finances clearance programmes and of prevention since years.", "A budget line is funding programmes for mine clearance and prevention for years.", "A budget line, programmes and of many years.", "Thirdly, the acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the different countries and for the EU as a whole - depends on the example of Denmark is for us to show - largely of the elimination of social and democratic deficits in European policy.", "It is obviously necessary to determine the reasons for the increase in the incidence of BSE, not only in France but also in other Member States."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Reiterating the calls made by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000, what initiatives does the Presidency of the European Council propose to take with a view to playing a more active role so as to guarantee the full and complete application of the UN peace plan?", "pos": ["As requested by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000, that these initiatives the presidency of the European Council is going to take to play a more active role in order to ensure the full implementation of the UN peace plan?"], "neg": ["A man tries to feed a mouse to a snake.", "The man ran and jumped against the wall.", "A Woman is eating.", "The Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market rightly insists on no upper limit and a minimum of no less than 7%.", "I was going to the court believing I could do this, only if I played my best tennis."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The other viewpoint illustrated by the rapporteur' s initial statement and shared by a number of members is to promote regulations and codes of conduct which are needed in order to establish among insurers ways of organising costs on a mutual basis providing everybody with guaranteed access to high-quality care and to counter the risk of discriminatory practices developing together with risk and client selection.", "pos": ["The other point of view, illustrated by the original words of the rapporteur and shared by many colleagues, is to promote the regulations and the codes of conduct needed to establish, between insurers, forms of mutual costs guaranteeing to all the provision of a good quality of care and to counter the risk of seeing develop discriminatory practices and a selection of risks and customers."], "neg": ["As long ago as 1996 the European Parliament came out in favour of a ban on the use of meat-and-bone meal throughout the European Union in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only.", "I would like to thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, Mr Brok, for his clear and comprehensive report.", "The best-performing stock was Altria Group Inc., which rose more than 27 percent to close at $42.31 a share.", "A girl is styling her hair.", "The man is playing a guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Whilst employment may be the European Union' s priority policy, fisheries, as another economic sector, cannot remain on the sidelines.", "pos": ["If employment is the political priority of the Union, the fishing industry, as the economic sector, cannot remain on the sidelines."], "neg": ["If the employment is the policy of the Union, the Community, as a sector, cannot remain on the sidelines.", "It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union.", "A man is writing in a book.", "Chief financial officer Andy Bryant has said that hike had a greater affect volume than officials expected.", "Faced with criticisms, particularly those of Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer has given a new interpretation: it is now a matter of resources for all users, including the drivers of heavy goods vehicles."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "As a matter of urgency, therefore, the staff complement of the Interdepartmental Group attached to the Commission Secretariat should be strengthened at the earliest possible opportunity in order to ensure that all proposals for acts which are general in scope are accompanied, when considered by the College of Commissioners and on the basis of Article 299(2), by a simplified sheet outlining their potential impact.", "pos": ["Thus, it is urgent that the inter-service group staff should be strengthened very quickly at the heart of the General Secretariat of the Commission, so that all proposals to act of general scope can be accompanied, during their examination by the college on the basis of Article 299(2), a detailed impact statement."], "neg": ["Thus, it is imperative that the inter-service Group are very quickly, of the Commission, so that all the proposals to act can be, during their examination by the force on the basis of Article 299, paragraph 2, a detailed impact.", "France Telecom shares dropped 3.6 percent while Orange surged 13 percent.", "The man is pushing the van.", "The women are feeding the animal.", "A Cuban architect was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for using two fake grenades to hijack a passenger plane from Cuba to Florida in April."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "People with the same business affairs in common are peacefully bound to one another.", "pos": ["The common economic activities create peaceful links between people."], "neg": ["The economic activities Commons generating peaceful links between people.", "The economic activities of links between the people.", "The man is talking.", "I should like to thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, Mr Brok, for his clear, comprehensive report.", "A budget line has programmes to de-mining and prevention for years."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The House had also fought, however, for the reduction of the funds available for innovative measures to be offset by means of resources from the flexibility instrument, a demand which is recorded in a declaration on the financial perspective in the Interinstitutional Agreement.", "pos": ["This House but also fought so that this reduction in funds allocated to the innovative actions is offset by the use of framework of flexibility, as defined in a statement on the financial perspective."], "neg": ["This Parliament has, however, also fought for this reduction in the funds allocated to the innovative actions to be compensated for by the use of framework of flexibility, defined in a statement on the financial perspective.", "This Parliament however also fought so that this reduction of the funds allocated with the innovative measures is compensated by the use of the framework of flexibilisation, defined in a declaration on the financial perspective.", "This Parliament has, however, also fought for this reduction of funds for innovative actions should be compensated for by the use of flexibility, defined in a statement on the financial perspective.", "This Parliament has, however, also for this Fund actions by the use of framework, defined in a statement on the financial perspective.", "This Parliament has, however, also fought for this reduction in the funds allocated to the innovative actions should be compensated for by the use of flexible framework, set out in a statement on the financial perspective."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Above all, when a one-man company or a company with fewer than 250 employees has a project, it should not need to provide 120% loan guarantees in the form of land to receive financing; it should also be possible for it to be funded on the basis of a good idea.", "pos": ["Above all, when a company unipersonnelle or a company with fewer than 250 employees is a project, it must be possible to receive financing not only with a guarantee to 120%, but also on the basis of a good idea."], "neg": ["Above all, when a business or a society with fewer than 250 a project, it must be possible for a means not only with a guarantee to 120%, but also on the basis of a good idea.", "Above all, when a company or unipersonnelle a society relying less than 250 employees has a project, it must be possible to receive funding not only with a guarantee to 120%, but also on the simple basis of a good idea.", "Especially, when a unipersonal company or a company less cash than 250 paid has a project, it must be possible to be given a financing not only with one guarantee with 120%, but also on the simple basis of an good idea.", "A woman is slicing some onions.", "A jury convicted rapper C-Murder, also known as Corey Miller, of second-degree murder Tuesday night in the shooting death of a 16-year-old in a Jefferson Parish nightclub."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I should also have liked the Court of Auditors' report to have been a little more user-friendly and to have provided a number of clear recommendations, for example one or two per chapter.", "pos": ["I would also have liked the report of the Court of Auditors fusse somewhat more user-friendly and he seen tabled a few clear recommendations - for example, one or two recommendations by chapter."], "neg": ["A man is playing flute.", "The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades endorsed Mr Dean several weeks ago.", "Unfortunately the final objective of a European Constitution would be exactly the opposite course and we cannot approve it.", "Firstly, simplification and clarification of the Treaties.", "A person is slicing a scallop."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar devoted to equal opportunities reinforces the integrated approach to equality through gender mainstreaming and through specific guidelines.", "pos": ["Lastly, in a word, the fourth pillar dedicated to the equal opportunity consolidates the integrated approach of the equality by the gender mainstreaming and specific guiding lines."], "neg": ["Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar of the approach of the approach adopted by the gender mainstreaming and guidelines.", "A turtle is walking.", "A dog is trying to get through his dog door.", "Vermillion, Posey and Madison County populations will decline.", "A man played the piano."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "In Nigeria, Chevron has been accused by the All-Ijaw indigenous people of instigating violence against them and actually paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot protesters at the Warri naval base.", "pos": ["In Nigeria, the indigenous people all-ijaw accused Chevron to incite violence against them and to pay Nigerian soldiers to draw on the demonstrators in the warri naval base."], "neg": ["In Nigeria, the All-Ijaw natives showed Chevron to incite with the violence in their opposition and of going until paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot at the demonstrators at the naval base from Warri.", "In Nigeria, encouraging the violence in their employment and go up to pay soldiers to draw on the demonstrators at the basis of warri.", "A woman is cutting a carrot.", "A woman cuts up some meat.", "A man and woman are Bollywood dancing."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On the other hand, we would like to be given a chance to prove to Europe that we are able to develop the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia on our own, by recognising the genuine principles of democracy.", "pos": ["Furthermore, we would have a chance to demonstrate to Europe that we are able to develop only constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia, recognising the real democratic principles."], "neg": ["In addition, we would like to have a chance to prove to the Europe that we are in a position to alone the cause of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia, while recognizing the principles.", "The man is trying to feed the snake with a mouse.", "A man is petting a dog.", "It will take time to oust die-hard remnants of Saddam Hussein's deposed regime in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday.", "People with the same business affairs in common are peacefully bound to one another."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is a matter of the utmost importance and yet has curiously attracted very little public attention.", "pos": ["The task, which is essential, has not yet been a keen interest on the part of the public."], "neg": ["The task, which is however capital, did not arouse an lively interest on behalf of the public yet.", "The task, which is nevertheless capital, has not yet aroused great interest on the part of the public.", "Secondly, it is necessary to say \"no\" to the concept to accept at the same time an important Group of countries, because this would be in contradiction with the principle of the admission of each country according to its merits.", "Wells' other series include NBC's \"ER\" and \"Third Watch.\"", "People are walking in the garden."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Slovakia has not been condemned to the second division and it is logical that it should like to join together with the Czech Republic.", "pos": ["Slovakia is not condemned to remain in the second group and it is logical that it wants to join the Union at the same time as the Czech Republic."], "neg": ["A man is driving a car.", "On the other hand, we would like to be given a chance to prove to Europe that we are able to develop the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia on our own, by recognising the genuine principles of democracy.", "Selenski used the mattress to scale a 10-foot razor wire, Fischi said.", "Cisco executives were encouraged by $1.3 billion in cash flow and the increase in net income, but said they remained ``cautiously optimistic'' about a rebound.", "The University of Michigan plans to release a new undergraduate admissions policy Thursday after its acceptance requirements were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in June."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "All those who are at present engaged in illicit work would obtain work with decent social conditions.", "pos": ["All those who are currently working to obtain an undeclared employment in decent social conditions."], "neg": ["Everyone who works are currently obtiendraient undeclared work in decent social conditions.", "Their differences on energy and Medicare have become so pointed other members say it is embarrassing to the party.", "Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement at all than a poor one and it is true that, in this instance, the American proposal was a third-rate proposal, and one which was completely unacceptable to Europe.", "In the last three weeks, progress has been made in three major areas.", "Redman has allowed two earned runs or less in six of his nine starts."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "But I would like to say to Parliament this afternoon that we should not lose sight of the fact that the EU spends just 1% of GDP and much of that is administered in the Member States.", "pos": ["But I would like to say to the House this afternoon that we must not lose sight of the fact that the European Union spends only 1% of the GDP of the Member States and that the bulk of this money is administered in the Member States."], "neg": ["Nevertheless, I would like to say to the idea that we must not lose sight of the fact that the European Union does not believe that 1% of the GDP of the Member States and that the bulk of this money is managed in the Member States.", "By withdrawing our resolution, I express however the conviction that our Parliament would have better done to hear its voice while devoting, for Conseil of Nice, a resolution specific and distinct with the so important and so difficult topics to the intergovernmental Conference, rather than to treat them within the framework of one only resolution also including all the other points of about an agenda of the Council.", ". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united European continent.", "Lastly, and most controversially, the committee strongly called for the use of a fast-track procedure to implement this legislation.", "According to an arrest warrant, Bryant, 24, attacked a woman on June 30."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, I voted for the García-Margallo y Marfil report on the taxation of electronic commerce.", "pos": ["Mr President, I voted in favour of the report García-Margallo y Marfil, which concerns the taxation of services provided by electronic means."], "neg": ["Mr President, I voted in favour of the García-Margallo y Marfil report, which concerns the taxation of services provided by way.", "A man is playing a piano.", "It is a matter of the utmost importance and yet has curiously attracted very little public attention.", "A man is playing the drums.", "The only instance in which no tax is levied is when the supplier is in a non-EU country and the recipient is in a Member State of the EU."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "As a matter of urgency, therefore, the staff complement of the Interdepartmental Group attached to the Commission Secretariat should be strengthened at the earliest possible opportunity in order to ensure that all proposals for acts which are general in scope are accompanied, when considered by the College of Commissioners and on the basis of Article 299(2), by a simplified sheet outlining their potential impact.", "pos": ["Thus, it is urgent that the staff of the interservice group are very quickly strengthened at the heart of the secretariat of the committee, so that all the proposed act of general scope can be accompanied by the college in their discussion on the basis of Article 299, paragraph 2, a fiche d'impact detailed."], "neg": ["Thus, it is imperative that the inter-service Group are very quickly, of the Commission, so that all the proposals to act can be, during their examination by the force on the basis of Article 299, paragraph 2, a detailed impact.", "Spain has developed a remarkably positive the difficult neighbourhood which has always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "I would like to thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mr Brok, for his clear and comprehensive report.", "A cat is walking on hardwood floor.", ". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united European continent."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "These objectives, the main one and the secondary ones, will be the touchstone by which the concrete proposals submitted by the Commission must be judged.", "pos": ["These objectives, the overarching objective and secondary objectives, represent the touchstone allowing us to judge the concrete proposals presented by the Commission."], "neg": ["These objectives, the secondary primary objective and objectives, will represent the stone of key enabling us to consider the concrete proposals presented by the Commission.", "These objectives, the secondary objective and objectives, will represent the touchstone of enabling us to consider the specific proposals presented by the Commission.", "This is a disgrace when we think that the European Union presents itself as the champion of the modernisation of economic life!", "The men are jogging on the beach.", "A girl is applying makeup on her face."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "After all, it is by no means certain that the proposed definition of equitable price is better than any other, because the various definitions that are currently in use in the Member States are all perfectly satisfactory.", "pos": ["In fact, it is by no means certain that the definition of fair prices which is being proposed is better than another, because the different definitions currently used in the Member States all are quite adequate."], "neg": ["Indeed, it is not absolutely certain that the definition of fair price which is better than another, because the definitions used in the Member States in all amply sufficient.", "Indeed, it is absolutely not certain only the definition of fair price which is proposed is better than another, because the various definitions used currently in the Member States are enough all amply.", "In fact, it is not absolutely certain that the definition of price that is proposed is better than another, because the different currently in the Member States all fully.", "A woman is cutting meat.", "He moved to Syria, where he underwent further religious training in traditional Islamic beliefs."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": ". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united European continent.", "pos": [". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and unified European continent."], "neg": ["The man is trying to feed the snake with a mouse.", "Sobig.F spreads when unsuspecting computer users open file attachments in emails that contain such familiar headings as \"Thank You!,\" \"Re: Details\" or \"Re: That Movie.\"", "He ran last year for the Democratic nomination for Texas governor, but lost the primary to multimillionaire Tony Sanchez.", "A woman is cutting some fish.", "A Microsoft spokesman was not immediately available to comment."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The UK Labour members of the PES Group welcome the adoption of their contribution to the ongoing work of the IGC on reinforced cooperation, without endorsing every single detail.", "pos": ["- British Labour members of the Group of the Party of European Socialists welcome the welcomed contribution to the continuous work of the IGC on closer cooperation, without fully adhere to all the details of it."], "neg": [". (IN) the British Labor Members of group PSE are pleased with the favourable response reserved for the contribution which they made to the ongoing work of the IGC on the reinforced cooperation, without adhering completely to all the details of this one.", "(it) the British labour Members of the Group of the Party of European Socialists is very welcome to the contribution that they have continuous work of the IGC on the cooperation, without all the details of this.", "Shares of M&T, which is based in Buffalo, fell 41 cents, to $91.51.", "A woman is pouring egg into a frying pan.", "A man is kick boxing with a trainer."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Therefore, I also believe that this reconciliation is sustainable, but that the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the university issue and to many other issues, needs visible signs of its success, and powerful support, else peace throughout the region will be under threat.", "pos": ["That is why I believe that this reconciliation can take. However, the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the issue of universities and many other problems, needs visible signs of success and a strong support, otherwise the threatened peace throughout the region."], "neg": ["He was referring to John S. Reed, the former Citicorp chief executive who became interim chairman and chief executive of the exchange last Sunday .", "The cat is drinking milk.", "Women are holding each other and dancing together.", "Spain has done a magnificent job in turning round the difficult neighbourly relations which Europe and North Africa and Spain and Morocco have suffered during the course of history.", "The Marlins only said: \"The issue has been resolved.\""], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement at all than a poor one and it is true that, in this instance, the American proposal was a third-rate proposal, and one which was completely unacceptable to Europe.", "pos": ["Without doubt, worth it better not to have an agreement that will have an agreement that is wrong and, in this case, the American proposal was a watered-down proposal, unacceptable for Europe."], "neg": ["A man is playing a guitar.", "The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> was off 58.69 points, or 0.64 percent, at 9,137.86.", "Pingeon said an attorney for his organization, Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services, interviewed Assan Tuesday.", "Tour doctors later confirmed that he had broken his right leg near the hip and also sustained wrist and elbow fractures.", "A man is cutting grass."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We shall have to speak with just one disagreeable voice in the WTO.", "pos": ["We speak with one voice disgracieuse within the WTO."], "neg": ["We speak with a single voice within the WTO.", "We will speak with one voice grace within the WTO.", "We will speak with one voice disgracieuse within OMC.", "We speak with a single voice Language‒describes within the WTO.", "The volatile mix could drag the session beyond the four days allotted by Bush, said Senate President Jim King."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We have started to exchange ideas on this question, from which it has emerged that all the Member States want to maintain this ceiling after enlargement.", "pos": ["We started to have exchanges on this question, from where it arises that all the Member States wish the maintenance of this ceiling after widening."], "neg": ["Worst of all, I believe, is having to issue a warning that a court judgment in their favour may just be a set of comforting words and make no real difference in their lives.", "The man is dancing.", "\"They were tossed around like feathers,\" Gordon said.", "If it's a Bill Gates Comdex keynote, it must be time for new Tablet PCs.", "A person is boiling noodles."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "If we define a clear, binding framework for the Member States, then there should be a longer evaluation period for the various support systems required to satisfy these requirements.", "pos": ["If we create a clear framework and binding on the Member States, the different systems to meet these requirements should have a longer period of put to the test."], "neg": ["A live rabbit is playing with a stuffed animal bunny.", "Lastly, and most controversially, the committee strongly called for the use of a fast-track procedure to implement this legislation.", "Someone is slicing a onion.", "The audiotape aired last week by the Arab Al-Jazeera television network appears to be an effort to incite attacks.", "The meeting was scheduled to end Wednesday night, with attendees approving resolutions that express the denomination's view on issues but that are not binding on churches."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Finally, I welcome the idea that we should review the implementation of the programme annually.", "pos": ["Finally, I welcome the idea of giving us an annual meeting in order to make an assessment of the implementation of the programme."], "neg": ["A monkey is walking on a bed.", "A man is making a bed.", "(The sitting was suspended at 2.06 p.m. and resumed at 3 p.m.)", "A American flag is blowing in the wind.", "The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC rose 17.26 points, or 1.06 percent, to 1,640.06, based on the latest data."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "In Nigeria, Chevron has been accused by the All-Ijaw indigenous people of instigating violence against them and actually paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot protesters at the Warri naval base.", "pos": ["In Nigeria, the indigenous All-Ijaw accused Chevron to encourage violence against them and to go as far as to pay Nigerian soldiers to draw on the demonstrators in the naval base of Warri."], "neg": ["In Nigeria, the All-Ijaw natives showed Chevron to incite with the violence in their opposition and of going until paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot at the demonstrators at the naval base from Warri.", "In Nigeria, encouraging the violence in their employment and go up to pay soldiers to draw on the demonstrators at the basis of warri.", "Agents confiscated several classified documents in his possession and interrogated him.", "A woman is doing ballet.", "A woman is slicing a potato."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The aim of the annual review is to identify such potential improvements.", "pos": ["The report aims to identify such improvements."], "neg": ["(the sitting was suspended at, is resumed at 3 p.m.)", "A kid is playing guitar.", "The Hispanic population increased by 9.8per cent from the April 2000 census figures, despite less favourable social and economic conditions than in the 1990s.", "A man is playing an acoustic guitar.", "It estimated on Thursday it has a 51 percent market share in Europe."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We welcome the arrangements proposed in this respect by the Preparatory Committee and adopted by the General Assembly regarding procedures for the registration of non-governmental organisations for involvement in the preparatory process and the Special Session in September 2001.", "pos": ["We welcome the measures proposed in this respect by the preparatory committee and decided by the General Assembly with regard to the system of accreditation of non-governmental organisations, with the preparatory process and the special session in September 2001."], "neg": ["Other countries are owed at least $US80 billion ($108.52 billion).", "In the latest top-level shuffle at CNN, Teya Ryan is leaving her post as general manager of U.S. programming, the network announced.", "Now, with the agency's last three shuttles grounded in the wake of the Columbia disaster, that wait could be even longer.", "With diplomacy heating up in the nearly 10-month-old crisis, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing flies to Japan on Sunday en route to South Korea on August 13.", "It is unlikely that the planned protection of the universal provision of services by means of a compensatory fund, as a result of which private profits are ploughed back into public services, will last."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Those who stand apart from reinforced cooperation are really being given the same freedom as the back seat passengers in a car.", "pos": ["Those which refuse the reinforced cooperation enjoy the same freedom of movement as the passengers of the back seat of a car."], "neg": ["Those who refuse and enjoy the same freedom of movement as the passengers out of a car.", "The resolution on the Nice Summit, which has just been adopted, does not reflect it.", "The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was down 1.55 points, or 0.09 percent, at 1,744.91.", "While waiting for a bomb squad to arrive, the bomb exploded, killing Wells.", "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Declarations must be followed by concrete steps to trace, freeze, seize and confiscate the proceeds of crime.", "pos": ["Statements must be matched by action to identify, freeze, seize and confiscate the proceeds of crime."], "neg": ["He explained that he found Antetonitrus when he came to Wits in 2001 as a post-doctoral research assistant at England's University of Bristol.", "The grant also funds beach testing in King George County, Norfolk and Virginia Beach.", "(The meeting, stopped with 14:06, is taken again at 3 p.m.)", "The Cleveland Cavaliers won the right to draft James by winning the NBA's annual lottery Thursday night.", "Colin Powell, the Secretary of State, said contacts with Iran would not stop."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The European Council will also discuss the state of progress of the accession negotiations and hence of the enlargement.", "pos": ["The European Council will also discuss the progress of the negotiations of adhesion, and thus widening."], "neg": ["A man is throwing blades into a close target outside.", "A man is cutting cucumbers.", "A man is slicing potato.", "The man is walking.", "A person is burning cameras."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "As there is still a lot of uncertainty, we must know what the scientific facts are and what action must be taken.", "pos": ["We must be aware today, since we are still in uncertainty, what are the scientific data, what are the measures to be taken."], "neg": ["Officers threw him to the ground and handcuffed him, and Reyna dropped a knee into his back, according to testimony.", "A spokesman at Strong Memorial Hospital said Doud was under evaluation Tuesday evening in the emergency room.", "The labelling of beef which was decided, which is a minimum labelling and which came into effect only since two months and half, does not make it possible to suitably recall the origin of the animals and we prohibited well tardily the specified risk materials.", "However, we have decided to opt for the European consortium's engine as the best overall solution.\"", "It is gratifying that Parliament has succeeded in producing a large majority in favour of more openness."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The only instance in which no tax is levied is when the supplier is in a non-EU country and the recipient is in a Member State of the EU.", "pos": ["The only case for which no tax is still perceived is that of a delivery in the European Community starting from a third country."], "neg": ["In 2006, the group says the market will rebound 29.6 percent to $21.3 billion in sales.", "You do not even intend to incorporate it into the Treaty, evidence indeed that this text, this exercise was always destined to be laid aside.", "Doctors had planned to deliver him two weeks early, on or around November 14.", "A woman is cutting potatoes.", "That made them heavily dependent on loans."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Reiterating the calls made by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000, what initiatives does the Presidency of the European Council propose to take with a view to playing a more active role so as to guarantee the full and complete application of the UN peace plan?", "pos": ["As the European Parliament asked it in its resolution of March 16, 2000, that they initiatives the presidency of the European Council does hope to take to play a more active part in order to guarantee the application full and whole peace plan of UNO?"], "neg": ["The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> gave up 11.91 points, or 1.19 percent, at 986.60.", "A woman is walking along a road and a man in a motorcar pulls up beside her.", "Spain has developed a remarkably positive way the difficult neighbourhood that has always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "The commission estimates California lost $1.34 billion -- the most of any state -- to tax shelters in 2001.", "The UK Labour members of the PES Group welcome the adoption of their contribution to the ongoing work of the IGC on reinforced cooperation, without endorsing every single detail."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is a vague area, and it is possible that more restrictive provisions may also remain in force, and this is one point in respect of which we have tabled amendments.", "pos": ["Things are not clear on this point, and it is not impossible that can also remain in force more restrictive provisions. This is particularly on this point that we have tabled amendments."], "neg": ["It is not clear on this point, and it is not impossible that can also remain in force for more restrictive provisions. This is particularly on this point that we have tabled amendments.", "A machine is sharpening a pencil.", "A woman is slicing up some meat.", "The man is smashing garlic.", "Sliding down the embankment, the two rescuers hit the spongy, rocky floor of the river and immediately felt the pull."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "If we define a clear, binding framework for the Member States, then there should be a longer evaluation period for the various support systems required to satisfy these requirements.", "pos": ["If we define a clear framework and constraining for the Member States, the various systems having to satisfy these requirements should have more a long period of setting with the test."], "neg": ["A man is dancing.", "A man is eating a pizza.", "A solenodon is walking along the ground.", "That was more than double the $102 million, or 13 cents a share, for the year-earlier quarter.", "Such a step could put the issue before the UN Security Council."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Council of Europe, along with the Court of Human Rights, has a wealth of experience of such forms of supervision, and we can build on these.", "pos": ["As the Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe has also solid experience as regards such forms of control. We can take as a basis."], "neg": ["Just like the Court of the human rights, the Council of Europe has to him also a solid experiment with regard to such forms of control. We can take it for base.", "Just as the Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe also has a solid experience in terms of such forms of control. We can to base.", "Vessels, without which there is the slightest, Mr Gayssot.", "The aim of the annual review is to identify such potential improvements.", "But skeptics are concerned about the ease with which vendors can use these hardware-based security features to set digital rights management policies."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On my own behalf and on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries, I would ask you, Madam President, to send Parliament' s condolences to the families of the victims and to the local authorities in both Brittany and in Marín, Galicia, from where the majority of the victims came.", "pos": ["Madam President, I would ask you, on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries and on my own behalf, to send a message of condolence from Parliament to the families of the victims and the local authorities of both Brittany and Marín, city of Galicia, which most of the victims."], "neg": ["Boeing said the final agreement is expected to be signed during the next few weeks.", "A woman is adding oil on fishes.", "When we are confronted with a potential risk, it is important to put the precautionary principle into practice.", "Slovakia has not been condemned to the second division and it is logical that it should like to join together with the Czech Republic.", "- My party has serious reservations about Community law applying to the sale of consumer products, as against applying the concept of mutual recognition of standards."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "At Feira, the Council considered those countries participating in the Stabilisation and Association Process as potential applicants for membership of the European Union.", "pos": ["In Feira, he has recognised the quality of potential candidates for accession to the countries participating in the stabilisation and association process."], "neg": ["In Feira, he recognized the quality of potential candidates to adhesion with the countries taking part in the stabilisation process and of association.", "In it, he has recognised the quality of potential candidates for membership in the countries participating in the stabilisation and association process.", "A man is lifting weights.", "These objectives, the primary objective and secondary objectives, will be the yardstick for judging the concrete proposals put forward by the Commission.", "The most urgent task, which is, however, has not yet a lively interest on the part of the public."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Spain has done a magnificent job in turning round the difficult neighbourly relations which Europe and North Africa and Spain and Morocco have suffered during the course of history.", "pos": ["Spain has developed in a remarkably positive the difficult neighbourhood which always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco."], "neg": ["Spain has developed a remarkably positive the difficult that always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "Spain has developed in a way the positive extremely difficult neighbourhood that has always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "The witness was a 27-year-old Kosovan parking attendant, who was paid by the News of the World, the court heard.", "As the European Parliament, in its resolution of 16 March 2000, that they initiatives does the Council intend to take to play a more active role in order to ensure the full and entire application of the UN peace plan?", "We started discussions on this issue, which show that all the Member States wish to maintaining this ceiling after enlargement."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "There is an urgent need, following the recent attacks on the Greek minority in Himara, to promote democratisation measures and measures to strengthen institutions and respect for human rights in Albania.", "pos": ["The recent incidents against the Greek minority in Himara make it more imperative the need to promote measures for democratisation, strengthening the institutions and respect for human rights in Albania."], "neg": ["Secondly, say no to the big bang idea of incorporating candidate countries simultaneously as a large group, since that would militate against the principle that each country should be admitted on its own merits.", "Albertsons and Kroger's Ralphs chain locked out their workers in response.", "Klarman was arrested by FBI agents in the Hamptons, an exclusive summer resort enclave east of New York City.", "He will stand trial on 8 January on charges of having attended a meeting of the Tunisian opposition in France, which he denies.", "The weakness exists in the way that VBA looks at the properties of documents passed to it when the document is opened by a host application."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "As a matter of urgency, therefore, the staff complement of the Interdepartmental Group attached to the Commission Secretariat should be strengthened at the earliest possible opportunity in order to ensure that all proposals for acts which are general in scope are accompanied, when considered by the College of Commissioners and on the basis of Article 299(2), by a simplified sheet outlining their potential impact.", "pos": ["Thus, it is urgent that the staff of the interservice group are very quickly strengthened at the heart of the secretariat of the committee, so that all the proposed act of general scope can be accompanied, during their examination by the College on the basis of Article 299 (2), a fiche d'impact detail."], "neg": ["Thus, it is imperative that the inter-service Group are very quickly, of the Commission, so that all the proposals to act can be, during their examination by the force on the basis of Article 299, paragraph 2, a detailed impact.", "A man is standing in the rain.", "Worst of all, I believe, is having to issue a warning that a court judgment in their favour may just be a set of comforting words and make no real difference in their lives.", "A development which has made heavily dependent on capital loans.", "He and his colleagues attributed some of the communication gap to doctors feeling pressed for time."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "As there is still a lot of uncertainty, we must know what the scientific facts are and what action must be taken.", "pos": ["We need to know today, since we are still in uncertainty, what are the scientific data, what are the measures to be taken."], "neg": ["A lion is walking in an enclosed area.", "They say second-quarter earnings reports will be key in giving investors that guidance.", "The European Council will also discuss the progress of the accession negotiations, and therefore of enlargement.", "Texas Instruments climbed $US1.37 to $US19.25 and Novellus Systems advanced $US1.76 to $US36.31, each having been raised to \"overweight\" by Lehman.", "That is up from $1.14 billion during the same quarter last year."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is a matter of the utmost importance and yet has curiously attracted very little public attention.", "pos": ["The task, which is capital, has not yet been a lively interest on the part of the public."], "neg": ["The task, which is however capital, did not arouse an lively interest on behalf of the public yet.", "The task, which is nevertheless capital, has not yet aroused great interest on the part of the public.", "I should like to thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, Mr Brok, for his clear, comprehensive report.", "The French Presidency thanks you, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for this cooperation, for your support and also for the warm reception you have given us.", "Also hurting was news General Motors GM.N was to issue $10 billion in debt, in part to plug a hole in its pension plan."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "B5-0794/2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on the kidnap in Colombia of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerillas;", "pos": ["(B5-0794/2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Linkohr and Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on the kidnapping in Colombia of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerillas;"], "neg": ["(B5-0794 / 2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Linkohr, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists and the Group of the Party of European Socialists, from a Spanish in the negotiations with the;", "B5-0794 / 2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on Colombia removal of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerrilla;", "A man is pouring pasta onto a plate.", "A man poured ric-a-roni into a pan.", "Mr President, the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and we are to retain any prepared very carefully the Karamanou report."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I call on Prague to respond to this signal, this challenge, this plea for dialogue, to grant our request and to ensure, together with our House, that this legacy of a nationalist era can be consigned to the past.", "pos": ["I would urge Prague to seize this sign, this invitation, this request for dialogue, to follow them up, and to ensure that, together with this House, these relics of a nationalist era can be abandoned."], "neg": ["I invite Prague to seize this, this invitation, this request for dialogue, to respond and to ensure that, together with this House, these relics of a nationalist age can be abandoned.", "I urge that to seize this motion, this invitation, this request of dialogue, to give further and to make sure that, together with this Assembly, these relics of a nationalist might be.", "A man is lifting heavy weights.", "All those who are at present engaged in illicit work would obtain work with decent social conditions.", "It was the best advance since Oct. 1, when the index gained 22.25."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "As there is still a lot of uncertainty, we must know what the scientific facts are and what action must be taken.", "pos": ["It is necessary to know today, since we are always in uncertainty, which are the scientific data, which are the measures to be taken."], "neg": ["National Breast Cancer Centre head Professor Christine Ewan said there was no need for panic.", "A man is putting rice in a bowling pot.", "\"Whatever has happened to you by way of punishment is certainly more than enough,\" Covello told the 49-year-old, whose family, friends and supporters filled half the courtroom.", "A man and woman walking hold each other.", "Consumer groups oppose the changes, saying they would concentrate too many outlets in too few media empires."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, the Commission' s attitude to the right of access to documents may be seen from the internal handbook sent on 11 October to employees of the Commission to tell them how to deal with requests from MEPs for access to documents.", "pos": ["Mr President, we have to know the Commission's position in relation to public access to documents on reading the internal Manuel which has been submitted, on 11 October, to the Commission officials in order to explain how they deal with the requests of Members regarding access to documents."], "neg": ["Slovakia is not doomed to remain in the second group, and it is logical that it wants to join the Union at the same time as the Czech Republic.", "For the 12-month period ending June 30, high-speed lines installed in homes and businesses increased by 45 percent.", "Apple Computer's new online music service sold more than 1 million songs during its first week of operation, the company said Monday.", "Not counting energy prices, wholesale prices were down 0.9 percent.", "A woman is riding a seadoo."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, we took a great deal of care over preparing the Karamanou report in the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs.", "pos": ["Mr President, the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Internal Affairs has prepared carefully the Karamanou report."], "neg": ["McGill also detailed the hole that had been cut in the Caprice's trunk.", "If employment is the political priority of the Union, fishing, as an economic sector, cannot remain on the sidelines.", "I find a little strange to want as of now forcing the Commission with a motion for resolutions and to ask him in the same time to establish one Green Paper on the current state of the voluntary insurances and the complementary health insurances.", "The French Presidency thanks you, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for this cooperation, for your support and also for the warm reception you have given us.", "Swimmers are racing in a lake."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I should like to thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, Mr Brok, for his clear, comprehensive report.", "pos": ["I would like to thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mr Brok, for his clear and comprehensive report."], "neg": ["I thank the rapporteur for the Committee on foreign Affairs, Mr Brok, for his clear and comprehensive report.", "I thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mr Brok, on his clear and comprehensive report.", "I thank the rapporteur for the Committee for the foreign affairs, Mr Brok, for his clear and complete report/ratio.", "I thank the rapporteur for the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mr Brok, for his clear and comprehensive report.", "I thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mr Brok, for his clear and comprehensive report."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is a vague area, and it is possible that more restrictive provisions may also remain in force, and this is one point in respect of which we have tabled amendments.", "pos": ["Things are not clear on this point, and it is not impossible that we can also remain in force more restrictive provisions, but particularly on this point that we have tabled amendments."], "neg": ["It is not clear on this point, and it is not impossible that can also remain in force for more restrictive provisions. This is particularly on this point that we have tabled amendments.", "The lady put the baby int a trashcan.", "A man is dancing in the rain.", "The baby is laughing and crawling.", "I think that France has set an excellent example by finally deciding to take this step."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The lesson for this Parliament this morning must be that we have to conclude that maritime laws throughout the world are in a state of shambles and we have to begin the process of putting them right.", "pos": ["The lesson for us within this House in its debate this morning is that we are forced to conclude that the maritime laws are in the world, in a state of control, and that we must get down to the task to put its house in order."], "neg": ["A monkey brushes a dog.", "The girl sat on the couch to crochet.", "Hong Kong was flat, Australia , Singapore and South Korea lost 0.2-0.4 percent.", "A woman adds ingredients to beef.", "The government did not identify the taikonauts -- a term coined from taikong, the Chinese word for space."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We welcome the arrangements proposed in this respect by the Preparatory Committee and adopted by the General Assembly regarding procedures for the registration of non-governmental organisations for involvement in the preparatory process and the Special Session in September 2001.", "pos": ["We welcome the proposed provisions in this respect by the preparatory committee and decided by the General Assembly as regards the method of accreditation non-governmental organisations, the preparatory process and the extraordinary session of September 2001."], "neg": ["The House had also fought, however, for the reduction of the funds available for innovative measures to be offset by means of resources from the flexibility instrument, a demand which is recorded in a declaration on the financial perspective in the Interinstitutional Agreement.", "Spain has developed a remarkably positive way the difficult neighbourhood that has always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "Thus, it is urgent that the staff of the interservice group are very quickly strengthened at the heart of the secretariat of the committee, so that all the proposed act of general scope can be accompanied, during their examination by the College on the basis of Article 299 (2), a fiche d'impact detail.", "\"It just seems like all the issues that we support, he doesn't,\" said Gabriela Lemus of LULAC.", "He will stand trial on 8 January on charges of having attended a meeting of the Tunisian opposition in France, which he denies."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That is a shameful state of affairs when we consider that the EU itself is a champion of modernised business practice.", "pos": ["It is a disgrace when we think that the European Union raises champion of the modernisation of economic life!"], "neg": ["This is a disgrace when we think that the European Union is a champion of the modernisation of economic life.", "It is a shame when they believe that the European Union presents itself as the champion of the modernisation of the life!", "Close cooperation between regional law enforcement agencies and intelligence services was at the heart of the fight against terrorism, he said.", "The creation of a provisional judicial cooperation is a step in the right direction, which the European Parliament for a long time.", "Someone drew on Washington's face on the dollar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I should also have liked the Court of Auditors' report to have been a little more user-friendly and to have provided a number of clear recommendations, for example one or two per chapter.", "pos": ["I would also have liked to see the report of the Court of Auditors was a little more user-friendly and that he had tabled a number of clear recommendations, for example, one or two recommendations by chapter."], "neg": ["On Monday, as first reported by CNET News.com, the RIAA withdrew a DMCA notice to Penn State University's astronomy and astrophysics department.", "Sgt. Ernest Bucklew, 33, was coming home from Iraq to bury his mother in Pennsylvania.", "You do not want in the Treaty, which shows that this text must be put aside.", "The rapper's lawyer, Mark Gann, didn't return calls for comment.", "Joining Boston on Monday were the Massachusetts communities of Watertown, Saugus and Framingham."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "pos": ["By withdrawing our resolution, I am nevertheless convinced that our Parliament would have done better to its voice heard by spending, for the Council of Nice, a resolution specific and separate with so important and so difficult issues to the Intergovernmental Conference, rather than to deal with them in the context of a single resolution including also all the other items on the agenda of the Council."], "neg": ["The right for a government to remove arbitrarily its constitution is defining characteristic of a tyranny.", "Faced with these realities, the need for greater involvement and greater efficiency in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment is essential.", "Lastly, and most controversially, the committee strongly called for the use of a fast-track procedure to implement this legislation.", "A dog is pulling a child down a hill.", "A man is making a phone call."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "People with the same business affairs in common are peacefully bound to one another.", "pos": ["The common economic activities create peaceful links between the people."], "neg": ["The economic activities Commons generating peaceful links between people.", "The economic activities of links between the people.", "There is an urgent need, following the recent attacks on the Greek minority in Himara, to promote democratisation measures and measures to strengthen institutions and respect for human rights in Albania.", "A man is throwing blades into a close target outside.", "\"Enron company executives engaged in widespread and pervasive fraud,\" prosecutor Samuel Buell told the Associated Press."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "There is, of course, one crucial event, namely that a start has been made with category four and with looking at ways how we will deal with it, but it is not yet entirely clear whether we have managed to resolve this, partly because the Council refuses to have sufficient input in the attendant thought processes.", "pos": ["There is, of course, a very important point is the fact that we have started category four, with his approach, but we do not yet know very well if we managed to solve the problem, particularly because the Council does not wish to participate in the discussion."], "neg": ["In his letter, McBride charges the Free Software Foundation and Red Hat with trying to undermine U.S. copyright laws.", "The woman droppped eggplant into the pan.", "A cat retrieves an object out of a dish of water.", "It is right that the Committee on Legal Affairs continues in the refusal of a ceiling and the maintenance of a minimum rate which cannot be less than 7%.", "We need to know today, since we are still in uncertainty, what are the scientific data, what are the measures to be taken."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is gratifying that Parliament has succeeded in producing a large majority in favour of more openness.", "pos": ["It is gratifying that Parliament has managed to gather a large majority in favour of greater transparency."], "neg": ["Given this situation, there is an inescapable need for greater involvement and greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment.", "A woman is walking along a road and a man in a motorcar pulls up beside her.", "A man is playing a guitar.", "Fifty-seven senators, including 24 Republicans, have signed the letter.", "Indeed, it is not at all convinced that the definition of fair price which is proposed is better than another, because the different definitions used in the Member States are sufficient all amply."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The French Presidency thanks you, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for this cooperation, for your support and also for the warm reception you have given us.", "pos": ["For this cooperation, for your support and also for your welcome, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen of the European institutions, the French Presidency thank you."], "neg": ["A boy cuts grass with scissors.", "A man is doing exercise.", "(The sitting was suspended at 2.06 p.m. and resumed at 3 p.m.)", "A little girl is playing a grand piano on stage.", "But Itar-Tass news agency said four of his bodyguards were among those killed by the bomb."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "If we define a clear, binding framework for the Member States, then there should be a longer evaluation period for the various support systems required to satisfy these requirements.", "pos": ["If we create a clear and binding framework for the Member States, the various systems have to meet these requirements should have a longer period of put to the test."], "neg": ["Mr President, I voted for the García-Margallo y Marfil report on the taxation of electronic commerce.", "A woman is riding a horse.", "The boy cut the grass by the curb with scissors.", "The best-performing stock was Altria Group Inc., which rose more than 27 percent to close at $42.31 a share.", "I think it is exemplary that France is resolved to take this step."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The resolution on Nice, voted today, does not reflect this.", "pos": ["The resolution on the Nice Summit, which has just been adopted, does not reflect it."], "neg": ["The resolution on the Nice Summit, which just does not.", "In Nigeria, the All-Ijaw natives showed Chevron to incite with the violence in their opposition and of going until paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot at the demonstrators at the naval base from Warri.", "The man is aiming a gun.", "From the top of the embankment, Moriarty thought, \"He'll be swept over any minute or just die of the cold.\"", "Waksal pleaded guilty to insider trading charges last year, and he is scheduled to be sentenced June 10."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The very worst situation is when the women concerned also come from distant countries, having taken the work on out of desperation because they have no other way of continuing to provide for themselves.", "pos": ["Things are getting worse when it is a matter of women from distant countries which have accepted this work by necessity and which have no alternative to continue to provide for their vital needs."], "neg": ["The situation is worse when it comes to women's distant countries which have accepted this work by necessity and who have no alternative to continue supporting themselves to their vital needs.", "Things deteriorate when it is a question of women from countries which have accepted this work and who have no other possibility to continue to provide their basic needs.", "The rally overshadowed ceremonies marking the sixth anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China on 1 July 1997.", "A little boy is playing a guitar.", "The commission dropped charges that Patton improperly appointed Conner to the Kentucky Lottery Board and that he improperly appointed Conner's then-husband, Seth, to the Agriculture Development Board."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I know that in France they have had whole herd slaughter and this does not seem to be the best way forward.", "pos": ["I know that in France, the principle of slaughter of the whole herd has been applied, and that this does not seem to be the best way to combat this phenomenon."], "neg": ["I know that in France, the principle of the whole and that it does not seem to be the best way to combat this phenomenon.", "I know that in France, the principle of slaughter of the entire herd has been implemented and that this does not seem to be the best way to combat this phenomenon.", "A person is slicing a garlic into pieces.", "That was the biggest drop since August 1993 and stemmed from falling prices for cars, trucks, men's and boys' clothes and cigarettes.", "A woman is cutting a tomato."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Unfortunately, the ultimate objective of a European Constitution would be precisely the opposite, and so, of course, we cannot vote for it.", "pos": ["Unfortunately, the final objective of a European Constitution would be exactly the opposite and obviously we cannot endorse it."], "neg": ["A woman is swimming.", "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "Russin did not comment; his lawyer did not attend the hearing and did not return phone messages.", "A man is playing the piano."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Finally, I welcome the idea that we should review the implementation of the programme annually.", "pos": ["Finally, I welcome the idea of giving us an annual meeting in order to take stock of the implementation of the programme."], "neg": ["Sliding down the embankment, the two rescuers hit the spongy, rocky floor of the river and immediately felt the pull.", "Now, with the agency's last three shuttles grounded in the wake of the Columbia disaster, that wait could be even longer.", "Spain has done a magnificent job in turning round the difficult neighbourly relations which Europe and North Africa and Spain and Morocco have suffered during the course of history.", "A baby panda plays with a stick.", "I would also have liked to see the report of the Court of Auditors a little more user-friendly and if he had presented a few clear recommendations - for example, one or two recommendations by chapter."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "But I would like to say to Parliament this afternoon that we should not lose sight of the fact that the EU spends just 1% of GDP and much of that is administered in the Member States.", "pos": ["Nevertheless, I would like to say to the House this afternoon that we must not lose sight of the fact that the European Union spends only 1% of the GDP of the Member States and that most of this money is managed in the Member States."], "neg": ["Nevertheless, I would like to say to the idea that we must not lose sight of the fact that the European Union does not believe that 1% of the GDP of the Member States and that the bulk of this money is managed in the Member States.", "Those who stand apart from reinforced cooperation are really being given the same freedom as the back seat passengers in a car.", "A woman is cracking three eggs into a bowl.", "I also voted against a text which calls for the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the eventual Treaty of Nice.", "A person is cutting a potato."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "(Parliament accepted the oral amendment)", "pos": ["(Parliament accepts the oral amendment)"], "neg": ["That's when officers threw him to the ground and handcuffed him, according to testimony.", "The woman is putting makeup on the man.", "A man is playing the piano.", "I invite Prague to take this message, this invitation, this request for dialogue, to act and to make it so that, together with this House, these being nationalistic period relics may be abandoned.", "A boy is filling a pitcher with water."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That is what we have done: we have avoided a budgetary crisis by going to Article 272; the financial perspective has been maintained, even though we have used the flexibility instrument.", "pos": ["That is what we have done: we avoided a budgetary crisis back to Article 272, the financial perspective has been maintained, even if we use the flexibility instrument."], "neg": ["A man is driving a car.", "She, in turn, occasionally told John that she was still sleeping with an ex-boyfriend, \"Baywatch\" hunk Michael Bergin.", "A development which made them dependent on the borrowed capital.", "Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement at all than a poor one and it is true that, in this instance, the American proposal was a third-rate proposal, and one which was completely unacceptable to Europe.", "A key figure in former state Treasurer Paul Silvester's bribery scheme was accused Wednesday of changing his story about Silvester's alleged corrupt dealings with a Boston investment firm."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Spain has done a magnificent job in turning round the difficult neighbourly relations which Europe and North Africa and Spain and Morocco have suffered during the course of history.", "pos": ["Spain has developed a remarkably positive the difficult neighbourhood which has always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco."], "neg": ["Spain has developed a remarkably positive the difficult that always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "Spain has developed in a way the positive extremely difficult neighbourhood that has always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "In 1995, the last survey, those numbers were equal.", "NASA is scheduled to launch the Space Infrared Telescope Facility on Monday morning.", "Dewhurst's proposal calls for an abrupt end to the controversial \"Robin Hood\" plan for school finance."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "From the first discussions on this dossier, which were held at European level at the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission has given a commitment to the Member States to pursue a course of action designed to develop what we might call a European police culture, grounded in the highest standards of duty, respect for the rights and freedoms of our citizens and efficiency in the fight against crime.", "pos": ["Since the initial reflections on this issue, which took place at European level at the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission is committed towards the Member States to promote action to develop what we could consider it as a police European culture, focused on the highest standards in the field of ethics, respect for the rights and freedoms of the people, and effectiveness in the fight against crime."], "neg": ["The little girl rode a horse.", "The BlueCore3-Multimedia includes a 16-bit stereo audio CODEC with dual ADC and DAC for stereo audio.", "I find it a little strange to now force the Commission to a motion for a resolution and ask him at the same time to draw up a Green Paper on the current state of voluntary and insurance supplementary sickness insurance.", "\"Our strong preference is to achieve a financial restructuring out of court,\" Mirant CEO Marce Fuller said in a prepared statement early Friday.", "The rapper's lawyer, Mark Gann, didn't return calls for comment."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We welcome the arrangements proposed in this respect by the Preparatory Committee and adopted by the General Assembly regarding procedures for the registration of non-governmental organisations for involvement in the preparatory process and the Special Session in September 2001.", "pos": ["We welcome the proposed provisions in this respect by the preparatory committee and decided by the general meeting with regard to the method of accreditation of non-governmental organisations, the preparatory process and to the special session in September 2001."], "neg": ["Texas Instruments climbed $US1.37 to $US19.25 and Novellus Systems advanced $US1.76 to $US36.31, each having been raised to \"overweight\" by Lehman.", "(Parliament accepted the oral amendment)", "A man is breaking an egg.", "A person is slicing a potato.", "\"But at no stage did ONA receive intelligence material indicating that Jemaah Islamiyah was planning to mount an operation in Bali.\""], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That was changed in the face of criticism, especially from Ireland and France, and a different spin has now been put on it by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer: it is now being portrayed as a user charge for all, including British lorry drivers.", "pos": ["Vis-a-vis criticisms, particularly those of Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer gave a new interpretation of it: it would be now about a tax for all the users, including the British drivers of heavy lorries."], "neg": ["Faced with criticism, especially those in Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer gave a new interpretation of it: it is now a tax for all users, including the British drivers of heavy goods vehicles.", "Given the criticisms, particularly those of Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer has given a new interpretation: it would now a tax for all users, including the lorry drivers in the UK.", "Do you think that the Austrian 'model' - the majority decisions to be taken in future bilateral - it will be an instrument to take decisions by ignoring the European institutions and to set up a new institution, or a new group, in order to get round the unanimity rule in the Council?", "Sliding down the embankment, the two rescuers hit the spongy, rocky floor of the river and immediately felt the pull.", "Either we are in a club or we are out of it and it is particularly important that we accept this."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, we took a great deal of care over preparing the Karamanou report in the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs.", "pos": ["Mr President, the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Internal Affairs has prepared very carefully the Karamanou report."], "neg": ["Clearly, explanations are necessary for the increased incidence of BSE, not only in France but also in other Member States.", "A woman is dancing.", "As the Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe has also a solid experience regarding such forms of control; we can take to basis.", "There has been a budget heading for the funding of mine clearance and prevention programmes for many years now.", "I find exemplary that France determined itself to cross this step."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "There is an urgent need, following the recent attacks on the Greek minority in Himara, to promote democratisation measures and measures to strengthen institutions and respect for human rights in Albania.", "pos": ["The recent incidents against the Greek minority in Himara make more imperative the need to promote measures to democratisation, the strengthening of institutions and the respect for human rights in Albania."], "neg": ["The man lifted barbells.", "A man is straining pasta.", "One month ago in the same poll, Katz was leading 46 to 40 percent.", "A man is stirring juice.", "A woman is washing off the top of a freezer."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The resolution on Nice, voted today, does not reflect this.", "pos": ["The resolution on the Nice Summit, which has just been adopted, does not reflect."], "neg": ["The resolution on the Nice Summit, which just does not.", "Slovakia has not been condemned to the second division and it is logical that it should like to join together with the Czech Republic.", "Madam President, I would ask you, on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries and on my own behalf, to send a message of condolence from Parliament to the families of the victims and the local authorities of both Brittany and Marín, city of Galicia, which most of the victims.", "MediaQ's customers include major handheld makers Mitsubishi, Siemens, Palm, Sharp, Philips, Dell and Sony.", "Thus, it is urgent that manpower of the Interdepartmental Group are very quickly reinforced with the cur of the General Secretariat of the Commission, so that all the proposals of act of general scope can be accompanied, during their examination by the college on basis of Article 299, paragraph 2, of a detailed impact statement."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "People with the same business affairs in common are peacefully bound to one another.", "pos": ["The joint economic activities create peaceful links between peoples."], "neg": ["The economic activities Commons generating peaceful links between people.", "The economic activities of links between the people.", "At least 11 more cases in Indiana and three in Illinois are suspected.", "Russin did not comment; his lawyer did not attend the hearing and did not return phone messages.", "A woman is slicing a meat into pieces."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "But I would like to say to Parliament this afternoon that we should not lose sight of the fact that the EU spends just 1% of GDP and much of that is administered in the Member States.", "pos": ["However, I would like to say to the House this afternoon that we must not lose sight of the fact that the European Union is spending that 1% of GDP in the Member States and that most of this money is managed in the Member States."], "neg": ["Nevertheless, I would like to say to the idea that we must not lose sight of the fact that the European Union does not believe that 1% of the GDP of the Member States and that the bulk of this money is managed in the Member States.", "A man is petting a dog.", "The Federal Trade Commission asked Congress yesterday for broader powers to attack the rapidly growing problem of spam, which new studies show accounts for half of all e-mail traffic.", "Mr. President, I will concentrate in my intervention on the report/ratio of Mrs. Lalumière, report/ratio which I find formulated well conceived and clearly.", "Lastly, and most controversially, the committee strongly called for the use of a fast-track procedure to implement this legislation."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The right of a government arbitrarily to set aside its own constitution is the defining characteristic of a tyranny.", "pos": ["The right for a government to dismiss its Constitution arbitrarily is the defining characteristic of a tyranny."], "neg": ["A man is playing a piano.", "The lesson for this Parliament this morning must be that we have to conclude that maritime laws throughout the world are in a state of shambles and we have to begin the process of putting them right.", "A dog is rolling from side to side.", "A man is playing the guitar.", "A man is playing a guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Clearly, explanations are necessary for the increased incidence of BSE, not only in France but also in other Member States.", "pos": ["It is obviously necessary to clarify the reasons for the increase in the incidence of BSE, not only in France but also in other Member States."], "neg": ["We should obviously determine the reasons of the increased incidence of the ESB, not only in France but also in other Member States.", "A woman brushes some shrimp.", "Several SUVs parked on residential streets in Monrovia were tagged with ``ELF'' and other slogans, said Sgt. Tom Wright.", "A person makes fire.", "By withdrawing our resolution, I am, however, convinced that Parliament would have done better by making its voice heard, in view of the Nice European Council, a separate and specific resolution on the issues which are so important and so difficult for the Intergovernmental Conference, rather than treating them in the context of a single resolution including also all the other items on the agenda of the Council."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "One could indeed wish for more and for improvement, but I honestly believe that we have made a good start.", "pos": ["We can indeed wish more and better, but I think quite honestly that it is a good start."], "neg": ["PeopleSoft will commit $863 million in cash and issue 52.6 million new shares, the companies said.", "There is an urgent need, following the recent attacks on the Greek minority in Himara, to promote democratisation measures and measures to strengthen institutions and respect for human rights in Albania.", "I know that in France they have had whole herd slaughter and this does not seem to be the best way forward.", "Things are getting worse when it is a matter of women from distant countries which have accepted this work by necessity and which have no alternative to continue to provide for their vital needs.", "A dog is pawing at a fly in the carpet before it."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Declarations must be followed by concrete steps to trace, freeze, seize and confiscate the proceeds of crime.", "pos": ["The statements must be followed by specific actions to identify, freeze, seize and confiscate the proceeds of crime."], "neg": ["Peregrine sold its Remedy business unit to BMC Software in November for $355 million.", "A woman is straightening her hair.", "A cat is eating a slice of watermelon.", "I find that France exemplary committed itself to take this step.", "This rule can also apply to all drugs récréationnelles but dangerous, provided that the consumer of drugs is the only one to run risks."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I know that in France they have had whole herd slaughter and this does not seem to be the best way forward.", "pos": ["I know that in France, the slaughter of whole herds principle was applied and that it does not seem to be the best way to combat this phenomenon."], "neg": ["I know that in France, the principle of the whole and that it does not seem to be the best way to combat this phenomenon.", "I know that in France, the principle of slaughter of the entire herd has been implemented and that this does not seem to be the best way to combat this phenomenon.", "Do you think that the model of the \"-\" - namely the majority - will be in the future as a means of taking in ignoring the European institutions and to a new institution, or a new Group, to be able to bypass the rule of unanimity in the Council?", "WorldCom's accounting problems came to light early last year, and the company filed for bankruptcy in July 2002, citing massive accounting irregularities.", "The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.7 per cent to 9,547.43 while the S&P 500 was 0.8 per cent weaker at 1,025.79."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "They will keep the pressure on, and they are strengthening their position with the revenue they are generating from delivering mail above 150 grams.", "pos": ["They will continue to put pressure on the money they earned with distribution beyond the bounds of 150 grams enables them to improve their position."], "neg": ["Thirdly, acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the individual countries and for the EU as a whole basically depend - and Denmark demonstrated this - on dismantling the social and democratic deficits of European policy.", "A man is dancing.", "A woman is feeding a baby.", "The Greek ships have sunk, without there being the slightest storm in its neck of the woods, Mr Gayssot.", "A gun is being fired."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I also voted against a text which calls for the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the eventual Treaty of Nice.", "pos": ["I also voted against a text which requires the integration of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the future Treaty which will be adopted in Nice."], "neg": ["Deirdre Hisler, Government Canyon's manager, said the state long has coveted this piece of property, and is eager to complete the deal.", "A woman adds ingredients to beef.", "State police said as many as 30 workers were trapped immediately after the garage collapsed.", "It is a matter of the utmost importance and yet has curiously attracted very little public attention.", "Authorities said the scientist properly quarantined himself at home after he developed SARS symptoms Dec. 10."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "He will stand trial on 8 January on charges of having attended a meeting of the Tunisian opposition in France, which he denies.", "pos": ["It is on trial on 8 January. He is accused of having participated in a meeting of Tunisian opponents in France, which incidentally it excludes."], "neg": ["It is on trial on 8 January is accused him for having taken part in a meeting of Tunisian opponents in France, which also it denies.", "It happening in trial on 8 January. he is accused of taking part in a meeting of Tunisian opponents in France, what to do deny it.", "It crosses the 8 January of this year. it is to have a Union of Tunisian opponents in France, which Moreover it.", "When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to put into practice the principle of precaution.", "Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement have an agreement that is wrong and, in this case, the American proposal was a watered-down proposal totally unacceptable for Europe."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, the Commission' s attitude to the right of access to documents may be seen from the internal handbook sent on 11 October to employees of the Commission to tell them how to deal with requests from MEPs for access to documents.", "pos": ["Mr President, we can hear the Commission's position on public access to documents from the internal manual, which was submitted on 11 October, the Commission's officials in order to explain to them how to deal with the requests of Members as regards access to documents."], "neg": ["Reiterating the calls made by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000, what initiatives does the Presidency of the European Council propose to take with a view to playing a more active role so as to guarantee the full and complete application of the UN peace plan?", "It happening in trial on 8 January. He is accused of having attended a meeting of Tunisian opponents in France, which he denies.", "Two men are fighting.", "Standard & Poor's 500 stock index futures for June were down 2.60 points at 965.70, while Nasdaq futures were down 7.50 points at 1,183.50.", "Waksal pleaded guilty to insider trading charges last year, and he is scheduled to be sentenced June 10."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "As long ago as 1996 the European Parliament came out in favour of a ban on the use of meat-and-bone meal throughout the European Union in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only.", "pos": ["From 1996, the European Parliament has declared itself in favour of a ban on the use of meat and bone meal in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle - only if we had listened."], "neg": ["In 1996, the European Parliament was in favour of a ban on the use of meat meal in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only we had listened to.", "In 1996, the European Parliament is in favour of a ban on the use in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only they had.", "To watch pay television, consumers would insert into the set a security card provided by their cable service.", "The sun is rising behind trees.", "With the Expose feature, all open windows shrink to fit on the screen but are still clear enough to identify."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I find it rather odd that people are already trying to tie the Commission's hands in relation to the proposal for a directive, while at the same calling on it to present a Green Paper on the current situation with regard to optional and supplementary health insurance schemes.", "pos": ["I find it a little strange to now force the Commission to a motion for a resolution and ask him at the same time to draw up a Green Paper on the current state of voluntary and insurance supplementary sickness insurance."], "neg": ["I am a bit of him now to compel the Commission to a motion for a resolution and ask him in a time to establish a Green Paper on the current State of voluntary insurance and health insurance.", "A woman is making some food.", "A boy is playing the piano.", "That is a shameful state of affairs when we consider that the EU itself is a champion of modernised business practice.", "It may be dying because entrenched interests are positioning themselves to control the Internet's choke-points and they are lobbying the FCC to aid and abet them.\""], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Do you think that the Austrian model, i.e. bilateral majority resolutions, will be used in future as a way of passing resolutions which bypass the European institutions and of forming a new institution or a new group in order to circumvent unanimity in the Council?", "pos": ["Do you believe that the Austrian model \"’ – namely bilateral majority decision-making - will in future an instrument to take decisions by ignoring the European institutions and start a new institution, or a new group, to get round the unanimity rule in the Council?"], "neg": ["Do you think that the model of the \"-\" - namely the majority - will be in the future as a means of taking in ignoring the European institutions and to a new institution, or a new Group, to be able to bypass the rule of unanimity in the Council?", "Several shots rang out in the darkness, but only one gator had been killed by 11 p.m.", "The lady added cheese to the sauce.", "Thus, it is urgent that the staff of the interservice group are very quickly strengthened at the heart of the secretariat of the committee, so that all the proposed act of general scope can be accompanied, during their examination by the College on the basis of Article 299 (2), a fiche d'impact detail.", "The annual report is designed to identify such potential improvements."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Knowledge of foreign languages is accepted as a necessary precursor to mobility.", "pos": ["It is accepted that the knowledge of languages is a reference to the mobility."], "neg": ["The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC declined 16.68 points, or 1.01 percent, at 1,636.94.", "I insist on this point because the market cannot regulate all and that, accordingly, it does not have there nor cannot have there of competition without limits.", "An incremental step reported by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, is the latest in a decade-long effort.", "The woman is putting on lipstick.", "A man is laying on the ground."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is no time for the faint-hearted.", "pos": ["It is not the time to be hesitant."], "neg": ["It is not the moment to be hesitant.", "This is not the time to show.", "Given this situation, there is an inescapable need for greater involvement and greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment.", "Blair's government included the charge that Saddam sought uranium from Niger in a September 2002 dossier setting out the case for military action.", "But I would like to say to Parliament this afternoon that we should not lose sight of the fact that the EU spends just 1% of GDP and much of that is administered in the Member States."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market rightly insists on no upper limit and a minimum of no less than 7%.", "pos": ["It is right that the Committee on Legal Affairs persists in refusing a ceiling and a minimum rate which cannot be below 7%."], "neg": ["It is just that the Committee on legal Affairs of the refusal of a ceiling and in the maintenance of a minimum rate which cannot be 7%.", "Thus, it is urgent that the staff of the interservice group are very quickly strengthened at the heart of the Secretary-General of the Commission, so that all the proposed act of general scope can be accompanied, during their examination by the college on the basis of Article 299 (2) of a fiche d'impact detailed.", "A women slicing green pepper.", "The man is playing the guitar.", "A panda bear is chewing on a stick."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Council of Europe, along with the Court of Human Rights, has a wealth of experience of such forms of supervision, and we can build on these.", "pos": ["As the Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe also has a solid experience with regard to such forms of control we can take it as a basis."], "neg": ["Just like the Court of the human rights, the Council of Europe has to him also a solid experiment with regard to such forms of control. We can take it for base.", "Just as the Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe also has a solid experience in terms of such forms of control. We can to base.", "A man makes a call on a cell phone.", "Some children are jumping on Trampoline.", "Both are being held in the Armstrong County Jail."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, the Commission' s attitude to the right of access to documents may be seen from the internal handbook sent on 11 October to employees of the Commission to tell them how to deal with requests from MEPs for access to documents.", "pos": ["Mr President, we cannot know the position of the Commission in the matter of public access to documents in reading the Commission has that has been postponed, on 11 October, the officials of the Commission in order to explain the way in which they had to deal with the requests in this regard access to documents."], "neg": ["To watch pay television, consumers would insert into the set a security card provided by their cable service.", "Doctors concluded Erbitux, the cancer drug that enmeshed ImClone Systems in an insider trading scandal, worked just as well as an earlier company-sponsored study said it did.", "Prices for Treasury securities also rose, with the yield on the benchmark 10-year note falling to 4.19 percent.", "A man is playing a flute.", "The man took off his sunglasses while talking."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "If we define a clear, binding framework for the Member States, then there should be a longer evaluation period for the various support systems required to satisfy these requirements.", "pos": ["If we define a clear framework and binding on the Member States, the different systems to meet these requirements should have a longer period of being tested."], "neg": ["A man is riding on a horse.", "Scientists believed Stardust trapped thousands of particles of dust.", "Dynes has been at UC San Diego since 1991 after spending 22 years with AT&T Bell Labs, where he worked on superconductors and other materials.", "The McLean, Virginia-based company said newspaper revenue increased 5 percent to $1.46 billion.", "That saw the benchmark 10-year note US10YT=RR slip 5/32 in price, taking its yield to 3.36 percent from 3.34 percent late on Thursday."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Therefore, I also believe that this reconciliation is sustainable, but that the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the university issue and to many other issues, needs visible signs of its success, and powerful support, else peace throughout the region will be under threat.", "pos": ["That is why I also believe that this reconciliation can take, and the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the issue of universities and many other problems, needs visible signs of success and a strong support, otherwise the peace threatened in the region as a whole."], "neg": ["He said he also expects to have the support of lawmakers from other agricultural states.", "The man rode his motorcycle down the highway.", "A woman is cleaning a shrimp.", "The French Presidency thanks you, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for this cooperation, for your support and also for the warm reception you have given us.", "\"I came basically to Washington to establish relationships and to make sure that we are getting more federal money to California,\" Schwarzenegger said after meeting with congressional Republicans."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That is what we have done: we have avoided a budgetary crisis by going to Article 272; the financial perspective has been maintained, even though we have used the flexibility instrument.", "pos": ["This is what we have done: we have a budget crisis in coming to Article 272; the financial perspectives have been maintained, even if we have used the flexibility instrument."], "neg": ["A woman is cutting tofu.", "One could indeed wish for more and for improvement, but I honestly believe that we have made a good start.", "SUVs parked on residential streets in Monrovia were tagged with \"ELF\" and other slogans, and another was set ablaze in front of a house, Sgt. Tom Wright said.", "A dog is catching a fish in a river.", "These objectives, the overarching objective and secondary objectives, represent the touchstone allowing us to judge the concrete proposals presented by the Commission."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Given this situation, there is an inescapable need for greater involvement and greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment.", "pos": ["Faced with these realities, the need for greater involvement and of greater efficiency in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment is essential."], "neg": ["A woman is cutting scallions.", "Mr President, I voted for the García-Margallo y Marfil report on the taxation of electronic commerce.", "Trouble flared when at least four North Korean reporters rushed from the Taegu media centre to confront a dozen activists protesting against human rights abuses in the North.", "Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda.", "A man dries his hands."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Finally, I welcome the idea that we should review the implementation of the programme annually.", "pos": ["Finally I welcome the idea of giving us an annual meeting in order to make an assessment of the implementation of the programme."], "neg": ["A girl is playing the piano.", "Cadbury Schweppes plc plans to cut 5500 jobs and shut factories after a 4.9 billion ($A11.9 billion) acquisition spree over the past three years inflated costs.", "A man is playing the electric guitar.", "A woman is running on the beach.", "This is a development of this type that I wish to other States of the European Union."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Unfortunately, the ultimate objective of a European Constitution would be precisely the opposite, and so, of course, we cannot vote for it.", "pos": ["Unfortunately the final objective of a European Constitution would be exactly opposite and obviously we cannot approve it."], "neg": ["The man is peeling a potato.", "A man is dancing.", "Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to speak on the joint resolution that obviously we shall vote.", "A man is slicing a vegetable.", "The right for a government to dismiss arbitrarily its constitution is the definition of a characteristic tyranny."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "A step in the right direction, for which the European Parliament has been striving for a long time now, is the creation of a provisional unit for judicial cooperation.", "pos": ["The creation of a provisional judicial cooperation is a step in the right direction, which the European Parliament for a long time."], "neg": ["The creation of a Provisional Judicial Cooperation Unit is a step in the right direction, which the European Parliament is not a long time ago.", "A tropical storm rapidly developed in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday and could have hurricane-force winds when it hits land somewhere along the Louisiana coast Monday night.", "Finally, I welcome the idea that we should review the implementation of the programme annually.", "When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to implement the precautionary principle.", "A man is playing a guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The very worst situation is when the women concerned also come from distant countries, having taken the work on out of desperation because they have no other way of continuing to provide for themselves.", "pos": ["The things worsen when it is question of women of distant countries who accepted this work by need and who do not have any other possibility to continue to provide for their vital needs."], "neg": ["The situation is worse when it comes to women's distant countries which have accepted this work by necessity and who have no alternative to continue supporting themselves to their vital needs.", "Things deteriorate when it is a question of women from countries which have accepted this work and who have no other possibility to continue to provide their basic needs.", "Of 24 million phoned-in votes, 50.28 percent were for Studdard, putting him 130,000 votes ahead of Aiken.", "Mr. President, we can know the position of the Commission as regards access to public documents by reading the internal handbook which was given, on October 11, with the Commission officials in order to explain the way to them in which they were to treat the requests emanating of the deputies with regard to the access to the documents.", "The researchers gave copies of \"Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution\" to the carb-cutters."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "If we define a clear, binding framework for the Member States, then there should be a longer evaluation period for the various support systems required to satisfy these requirements.", "pos": ["If we define a clear and binding for the Member States, the different systems to meet these requirements should have a longer period of put to the test."], "neg": ["A woman is cutting through an onion.", "The creation of a provisional unit of judicial cooperation is a step in the right direction, not to which the European Parliament has been seeking for a long time already.", "A woman is feeding an aardvark.", "It must be welcomed that the European Parliament has succeeded in bringing together a broad majority in favour of greater transparency.", "A person is scrubbing a zucchini."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Declarations must be followed by concrete steps to trace, freeze, seize and confiscate the proceeds of crime.", "pos": ["The statements must be matched by action to identify, freeze, seize and confiscate the proceeds of crime."], "neg": ["The bill says that a woman who undergoes such an abortion couldn't be prosecuted.", "A woman is cutting a leak.", "\"If you pass this bill,\" Rep. John Mabry Jr., D-Waco, told colleagues, \"Big Brother will be watching you.\"", "As the European Parliament called for in its resolution of 16 March 2000, they initiatives the European Council Presidency intend to take to play a more active role in order to ensure the full implementation of the UN peace plan?", "A man is playing a guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Either we are in a club or we are out of it and it is particularly important that we accept this.", "pos": ["Either we are part of the club, or we are not and we must therefore abide by this decision."], "neg": ["Either we are part of the club, we are not and we must, therefore, we have to comply with this.", "As a matter of urgency, therefore, the staff complement of the Interdepartmental Group attached to the Commission Secretariat should be strengthened at the earliest possible opportunity in order to ensure that all proposals for acts which are general in scope are accompanied, when considered by the College of Commissioners and on the basis of Article 299(2), by a simplified sheet outlining their potential impact.", "The mock explosion, the first event in the drill, occurred in a car in industrial south Seattle.", "Above all, when a one-person business or a society with fewer than 250 employees has a project, it must be possible to receive financing not only to guarantee to 120%, but merely on the basis of a good idea.", "A woman is chopping an onion."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That made them heavily dependent on loans.", "pos": ["A development which has made the heavily dependent on capital borrowed."], "neg": ["A policy which has been strongly capital.", "A development which made capital borrowed heavily dependent.", "A development which has made heavily dependent on capital loans.", "Declarations must be followed by concrete steps to trace, freeze, seize and confiscate the proceeds of crime.", "Mr President, I voted for the García-Margallo y Marfil report, which concerns the taxation of services provided by electronic means."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I would urge the French Presidency to do their utmost to overcome this divide, because it is extremely destructive.", "pos": ["I appeal urgently to the French Presidency to do everything in its power to fill that gap particularly destructive."], "neg": ["I make an urgent appeal to the Presidency to do everything in its power to fill this role.", "I launch an urgent appeal with the French presidency so that it does all that is in its capacity to fill this particularly destroying ditch.", "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "It will also give Microsoft an opportunity to comment on remedies proposed by the Commission.", "I call on Prague to respond to this signal, this challenge, this plea for dialogue, to grant our request and to ensure, together with our House, that this legacy of a nationalist era can be consigned to the past."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We have heard that the previous Council Presidency first restructured and then scrapped the Ministry for Equality.", "pos": ["We have heard that the previous presidency was first restructured then dismantled the Ministry of equal opportunities."], "neg": ["We have heard that the first and then the inequality of opportunity.", "\"However, we are not certain about the outcome of the discussion at this moment.\"", "Unfortunately the final objective of a European Constitution would be exactly the opposite course and we cannot approve it.", "The Senate Banking Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on Tuesday where Donaldson is scheduled to testify on hedge and mutual funds.", "On Thursday, a Post article argued that a 50 basis point cut from the Fed was more likely."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Given this situation, there is an inescapable need for greater involvement and greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment.", "pos": ["Faced with these, the necessity of a greater involvement and greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and is essential."], "neg": ["The little boy swung at the golf ball.", "A man is lifting weights.", "That is a shameful state of affairs when we consider that the EU itself is a champion of modernised business practice.", "The Winston-Salem, North Carolina company opened six stores during the quarter, bringing the total to 282.", "A man is mooing."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "In Nigeria, Chevron has been accused by the All-Ijaw indigenous people of instigating violence against them and actually paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot protesters at the Warri naval base.", "pos": ["In Nigeria, the indigenous people all ijaw Chevron have accused of encouraging the violence against them and to go up to pay Nigerian soldiers to draw on the demonstrators at the naval base of Warri."], "neg": ["In Nigeria, the All-Ijaw natives showed Chevron to incite with the violence in their opposition and of going until paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot at the demonstrators at the naval base from Warri.", "In Nigeria, encouraging the violence in their employment and go up to pay soldiers to draw on the demonstrators at the basis of warri.", "The man is mixing whipping cream.", "A man walking down the stairs.", "A woman is rowing a boat."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I would urge the French Presidency to do their utmost to overcome this divide, because it is extremely destructive.", "pos": ["I appeal urgently to the French Presidency to do everything in its power to fulfil this particularly destructive gap."], "neg": ["I make an urgent appeal to the Presidency to do everything in its power to fill this role.", "I launch an urgent appeal with the French presidency so that it does all that is in its capacity to fill this particularly destroying ditch.", "\"Unlike many early-stage Internet firms, Google is believed to be profitable.", "\"There is no doubt about the chemical programme, biological programme, indeed nuclear programme, indeed all that was documented by the UN,\" he said.", "When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to apply the precautionary principle."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "There is an urgent need, following the recent attacks on the Greek minority in Himara, to promote democratisation measures and measures to strengthen institutions and respect for human rights in Albania.", "pos": ["The recent incidents against the Greek minority in Himara make more imperative that measures to promote democratisation, strengthening the institutions and respect for human rights in Albania."], "neg": ["These objectives, the overriding goal and secondary objectives, will be the yardstick by which we judge the concrete proposals put forward by the Commission.", "A woman is slicing big pepper.", "A man takes a piece of pepperoni pizza out of a pizza box and puts it on the lid after he closes the box.", "A man is seasoning some dough in a pan.", "The European Council will also discuss the state of progress of the accession negotiations and hence of the enlargement."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The labelling of beef that was agreed on, which is a minimum form of labelling and only came into force two and a half months ago, does not make it possible for the origin of animals to be adequately traced, and we were very slow to ban specified risk materials.", "pos": ["The labelling of beef which has been decided, which is a minimum labelling and which has only been in force for two and a half months, does not make it possible to properly remind the origin of the animals and we banned very late specified risk material."], "neg": ["A woman is riding a donkey.", "A man is riding on a boat.", "A cat is drinking milk.", "A man is traveling in a boat.", "The man is using a sledghammer to break the concrete block that is on the other man."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The very worst situation is when the women concerned also come from distant countries, having taken the work on out of desperation because they have no other way of continuing to provide for themselves.", "pos": ["Things worse when it comes to women's distant countries which accepted this work by need and which have no other option to continue to provide for their vital needs."], "neg": ["The situation is worse when it comes to women's distant countries which have accepted this work by necessity and who have no alternative to continue supporting themselves to their vital needs.", "Things deteriorate when it is a question of women from countries which have accepted this work and who have no other possibility to continue to provide their basic needs.", "A woman is cutting shrimps.", "A woman is adding oil to a dish.", "Approval of the Minutes of the previous sitting"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On the other hand, we would like to be given a chance to prove to Europe that we are able to develop the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia on our own, by recognising the genuine principles of democracy.", "pos": ["Furthermore, we would like to have a chance to prove to the Europe that we are able to develop only the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro in Yugoslavia, recognising the genuine democratic principles."], "neg": ["In addition, we would like to have a chance to prove to the Europe that we are in a position to alone the cause of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia, while recognizing the principles.", "We shall have to speak with just one disagreeable voice in the WTO.", "The mother also alleged in the lawsuit that she was sexually assaulted by one of the guards.", "A woman is cooking shrimp.", "Penn Traffic's stock closed at 36 cents per share on Wednesday on Nasdaq, up two cents."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "They will keep the pressure on, and they are strengthening their position with the revenue they are generating from delivering mail above 150 grams.", "pos": ["They will continue to put pressure. The money they earn with the distribution beyond the limit of 150 grammes enables them to strengthen their position."], "neg": ["The executives fined included former Chief Executives Paul A. Allaire and G. Richard Thoman as well as former Chief Financial Officer Barry Romeril.", "On the contrary, the influence of the national democracies is being reduced by the further restriction of the right of veto and by the fact that the European Parliament is being given more power.", "A girl is playing a guitar.", "The man is balancing on the wire.", "The bank's shares fell 45 cents in trading yesterday to $91.51 per share."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I wonder if the Commissioner has planned any steps in this respect to demonstrate that we really do consider Kostunica to be the only lawfully elected representative of the Serbian people, and the only partner with whom the European Union is involved as from today.", "pos": ["I wonder whether the police chief envisages already stages which will make it possible to show that we regard Kostunica as the legally elected representative of Serbian people and as the partner with whom the European Union will have henceforth to treat."], "neg": ["I wonder if the Commissioner, for the steps which they show that we consider and as the representative of the Serbian people and as the partner with which the European Union will have to deal with.", "\"The figures are becoming catastrophic,\" said Dr. Patrick Pelloux, the president of the association of emergency room physicians.", "The things worsen when it is question of women of distant countries who accepted this work by need and who do not have any other possibility to continue to provide for their vital needs.", "A woman is cutting potato.", "As requested by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000, that these initiatives the presidency of the European Council is going to take to play a more active role in order to ensure the full implementation of the UN peace plan?"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda.", "pos": ["It is urgent and it is for that reason that we have decided to put this item on the agenda."], "neg": ["It is an urgent matter and it is to this that we have to put this point to the order of the day.", "No. 2 HP saw its Unix server sales dropped 3.6 percent to $1.36 billion.", "Graham is expected to be nominated and elected to a second one-year term today and will deliver the presidential address.", "A woman is collecting tap water in a mug.", "The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was up 7.42 points, or 0.45 percent, at 1,653.44."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The resolution on Nice, voted today, does not reflect this.", "pos": ["The resolution on the Nice Summit, which has just been voted, does not reflect it."], "neg": ["The resolution on the Nice Summit, which just does not.", "The Nasdaq composite index fell 2.95, or 0.2 percent, for the week to 1,912.36 after stumbling 37.78 yesterday.", "This is what we have done: we have a budget crisis in coming to Article 272; the financial perspectives have been maintained, even if we have used the flexibility instrument.", "A man is singing.", "The lesson for this Parliament this morning must be that we have to conclude that maritime laws throughout the world are in a state of shambles and we have to begin the process of putting them right."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On my own behalf and on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries, I would ask you, Madam President, to send Parliament' s condolences to the families of the victims and to the local authorities in both Brittany and in Marín, Galicia, from where the majority of the victims came.", "pos": ["Madam President, I would ask you, on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries and on my own behalf, to send a message of condolence from Parliament to the families of the victims and the local authorities of both Brittany Marín, that the city of Galicia, which are from most of the victims."], "neg": ["Michael Bloomberg, NYC Mayor: \"I'm gonna try march with a number of different groups.", "The blaze then spread to several surrounding structures on the property and destroyed them.", "A woman feeds an animal by hand.", "The third appointment was to a new job, executive vice president and chief staff officer.", "A moose drinks from a sprinkler."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Worst of all, I believe, is having to issue a warning that a court judgment in their favour may just be a set of comforting words and make no real difference in their lives.", "pos": ["In my view, there is, however, nothing worse than having to warn people that a ruling for them could only be a series of words pleasing and have no practical effect on their existence."], "neg": ["In my view, however, there is nothing worse than having to warn people that a ruling in their favour could not have been a series of words réconfortants and do not have any consequences concrete on their existence.", "In my view, there is, however, nothing worse than to have to warn the people a ruling in their favour could be a series of reassuring words and have no concrete result on their existence.", "In the latest violence, insurgents threw a bomb at a U.S. convoy in northern Baghdad, killing one soldier.", "In morning trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 40.12, or 0.5 percent, at 8,571.69, having fallen 51 points Monday.", "Veteran stage and screen actor Hume Cronyn died of cancer Sunday."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The other viewpoint illustrated by the rapporteur' s initial statement and shared by a number of members is to promote regulations and codes of conduct which are needed in order to establish among insurers ways of organising costs on a mutual basis providing everybody with guaranteed access to high-quality care and to counter the risk of discriminatory practices developing together with risk and client selection.", "pos": ["The other point of view, illustrated by the original subject of the rapporteur and shared by many colleagues, is to promote the regulations and codes of conduct to be found, between insurers, the forms of mutual cost guarantee to all the supply of good quality care and to counter the risks to see developing discriminatory practices and a selection of risks and customers."], "neg": ["Another shooting linked to the spree occurred Nov. 11 at Hamilton Central Elementary in Obetz, about two miles from the freeway.", "The recent incidents against the Greek imperative more the need to promote measures, of strengthening the institutions and the respect of human rights in Albania.", "The man is peeling a potato.", "State radio said it was the last test before the missile was delivered to the armed forces.", "The European Council will also discuss the state of progress of the accession negotiations and hence of the enlargement."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That was changed in the face of criticism, especially from Ireland and France, and a different spin has now been put on it by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer: it is now being portrayed as a user charge for all, including British lorry drivers.", "pos": ["Criticism, especially those of Ireland and France, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has given a new interpretation: it is now a tax for all users, including the British lorry drivers."], "neg": ["Faced with criticism, especially those in Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer gave a new interpretation of it: it is now a tax for all users, including the British drivers of heavy goods vehicles.", "Given the criticisms, particularly those of Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer has given a new interpretation: it would now a tax for all users, including the lorry drivers in the UK.", "Faced with these realities, the need for greater involvement and greater efficiency in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment is essential.", "The weather service reported maximum sustained winds of nearly 105 miles an hour with stronger gusts.", "A promotional poster, complete with countdown dial, reminds readers of the upcoming release of \"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.\""], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "One could indeed wish for more and for improvement, but I honestly believe that we have made a good start.", "pos": ["We can indeed wish more and better, but I quite honestly believe that it is a good start."], "neg": ["A cat is playing.", "The man danced in the diner.", "Besides battling its sales slump, Siebel also has been sparring with some investors upset about huge stock option windfalls company managers have pocketed.", "A man is speaking on a phone.", "A man is slicing a bun."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "B5-0794/2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on the kidnap in Colombia of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerillas;", "pos": ["B5 0794 / 2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on the kidnapping of Colombia a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerrilla;"], "neg": ["(B5-0794 / 2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Linkohr, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists and the Group of the Party of European Socialists, from a Spanish in the negotiations with the;", "B5-0794 / 2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on Colombia removal of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerrilla;", "At Feira, the Council considered those countries participating in the Stabilisation and Association Process as potential applicants for membership of the European Union.", "An okapi is eating from a tree.", "Thank you very much, Mr Commissioner."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The aim of the annual review is to identify such potential improvements.", "pos": ["The annual report is to identify such potential improvements."], "neg": ["Deirdre Hisler, Government Canyon's manager, said the state long has coveted this piece of property, and is eager to complete the deal.", "A woman is exercising.", "In view of these realities, the need for greater involvement and greater efficiency in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment is essential.", "A man is pouring chili into a bowl.", "The Bush administration blames the wave of bombings and guerrilla attacks on Saddam loyalists and foreign Muslim militants who have entered Iraq to fight U.S. troops."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "You do not even intend to incorporate it into the Treaty, evidence indeed that this text, this exercise was always destined to be laid aside.", "pos": ["You do not want to even integrate it in the Treaty, which proves that this text was to be put on side."], "neg": ["You do not even want to incorporate into the Treaty, which shows that this text should be set aside.", "You do not even want to incorporate into the Treaty, that proves that this text should be set aside.", "You do not want in the Treaty, which shows that this text must be put aside.", "The man accused of using fake grenades to commandeer a Cuban plane that landed in Key West in April was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison.", "A man is playing the flute."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is our priority fight in order to ensure that the affirmation of fundamental rights is put into practice in our political decisions.", "pos": ["This is our priority for the affirmation of fundamental rights to be implemented in political choices."], "neg": ["That is what we have done: we avoided a budgetary crisis back to Article 272, the financial perspective has been maintained, even if we use the flexibility instrument.", "A woman is climbing a rock wall.", "A woman is climbing a rock face.", "A person is tearing paper.", "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I wonder if the Commissioner has planned any steps in this respect to demonstrate that we really do consider Kostunica to be the only lawfully elected representative of the Serbian people, and the only partner with whom the European Union is involved as from today.", "pos": ["I wonder whether the Commissioner already provides for steps to show that we regard Kostunica as the legally elected representative of the Serbian people and as a partner with which the European Union must now address."], "neg": ["I wonder if the Commissioner, for the steps which they show that we consider and as the representative of the Serbian people and as the partner with which the European Union will have to deal with.", "A little girl peddling a scooter.", "With the Expose (ex-poh-SAY) feature, all the open windows on the desktop immediately shrink to fit on the screen but are still clear enough to identify.", "A man is stirring juice.", "Firstly, simplification and clarification of the Treaties."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We have started to exchange ideas on this question, from which it has emerged that all the Member States want to maintain this ceiling after enlargement.", "pos": ["We have started to have exchanges on this issue, it emerges that all the Member States wish to the maintenance of this ceiling after enlargement."], "neg": ["A little girl peddling a scooter.", "A woman is slicing ginger.", "A person is slicing a small pieces of ginger.", "An animal is walking.", "The fire spread to several surrounding structures on the property and destroyed them as deputies held back firefighters."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "They will keep the pressure on, and they are strengthening their position with the revenue they are generating from delivering mail above 150 grams.", "pos": ["They continue to put the pressure that they earn. money with the distribution of the limit of 150 grammes allows them to strengthen their position."], "neg": ["A long awaited report on the Hong Kong government's handling of the SARS outbreak has been released.", "A man is singing into a microphone.", "People are sweeping water out of a house.", "A man is playing a violin.", "Patton also appointed Conner to the Kentucky Lottery Board and appointed Seth Conner to the Agriculture Development Board, the commission says."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "From the first discussions on this dossier, which were held at European level at the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission has given a commitment to the Member States to pursue a course of action designed to develop what we might call a European police culture, grounded in the highest standards of duty, respect for the rights and freedoms of our citizens and efficiency in the fight against crime.", "pos": ["Since the first thoughts on this issue, which were held at European level on the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission is committed to Member States to promote an action intended to develop what we could consider a European police culture, focused on the highest standards in terms of ethics, human rights and freedoms, and efficiency in the fight against crime."], "neg": ["A tiger attacks a man.", "A woman is peeling an orange.", "A kangaroo is eating.", "\"I'm not going to be sponsoring it because it's not our proposal, but I'm not responding to it in a negative way,\" he said.", "The upgrade will be available as a free download for current customers with SmarNet support in January 2004."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "From the first discussions on this dossier, which were held at European level at the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission has given a commitment to the Member States to pursue a course of action designed to develop what we might call a European police culture, grounded in the highest standards of duty, respect for the rights and freedoms of our citizens and efficiency in the fight against crime.", "pos": ["Since the first reflexions on this file, which took place at the European level on the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission committed itself with respect to the Member States promoting an action intended to develop what we could regard as a European police culture, centered on the highest standards as regards deontology, of respect for the rights and freedoms of the citizens, and of effectiveness in the fight against crime."], "neg": ["\"If we could do that throughout the world, we could end terrorism,\" he said.", "A woman serving volleyballs over a net.", "As a matter of urgency, therefore, the staff complement of the Interdepartmental Group attached to the Commission Secretariat should be strengthened at the earliest possible opportunity in order to ensure that all proposals for acts which are general in scope are accompanied, when considered by the College of Commissioners and on the basis of Article 299(2), by a simplified sheet outlining their potential impact.", "McCloskey died Sunday afternoon in his home after a year-long battle with bladder cancer.", "In his letter, McBride charges the Free Software Foundation and Red Hat with trying to undermine U.S. copyright laws."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "All those who are at present engaged in illicit work would obtain work with decent social conditions.", "pos": ["All those who are currently working on the black would get jobs under decent social conditions."], "neg": ["Everyone who works are currently obtiendraient undeclared work in decent social conditions.", "A man is riding a horse.", "This rule can, moreover, apply to all drugs récréationnelles but dangerous provided that the consumer of drugs is the only run the risks.", "One could indeed wish for more and for improvement, but I honestly believe that we have made a good start.", "A dog is rolling from side to side."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, I voted for the García-Margallo y Marfil report on the taxation of electronic commerce.", "pos": ["Mr President, I voted in favour of the Garcia-Margallo y Marfil report, which concerns the taxation of services provided electronically."], "neg": ["Mr President, I voted in favour of the García-Margallo y Marfil report, which concerns the taxation of services provided by way.", "The report added that \"spin\" and manipulative public relations \"are not the answer,\" but that neither is avoiding the debate.", "Those who refuse closer cooperation to enjoy the same freedom of movement that passengers in the back seat of a car.", "Mr President, we took a great deal of care over preparing the Karamanou report in the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs.", "A man is walking on a rope."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, the Commission' s attitude to the right of access to documents may be seen from the internal handbook sent on 11 October to employees of the Commission to tell them how to deal with requests from MEPs for access to documents.", "pos": ["Mr President, we know the position of the Commission on public access to documents in the internal manual, which was submitted on 11 October, the Commission's officials in order to explain how to handle applications by Members as regards access to documents."], "neg": ["A cartoon woman dives into a pool.", "It is a matter of the utmost importance and yet has curiously attracted very little public attention.", "The right for a government to dismiss arbitrarily its constitution is the definition of a characteristic tyranny.", "The report aims to identify such improvements.", "As there is still a lot of uncertainty, we must know what the scientific facts are and what action must be taken."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This rule can be applied equally to all recreational but dangerous drugs when no one but the person consuming the drug is likely to be affected.", "pos": ["This rule can apply besides to all récréationnelles but dangerous drugs in so far as the consumer of drug is the only one to run risks."], "neg": ["This rule can also apply to all drugs récréationnelles but dangerous as far as the consumer of drugs should be the only to run risks.", "This could also apply to all drugs but dangerous insofar as the consumer of drugs is the only to run risks.", "This rule can apply to all drugs récréationnelles provided that the consumer but dangerous drugs is the only to run risks.", "The tech-laced Nasdaq Composite Index gained 2.90 points, or 0.18 percent, to 1,606.87.", "The man is playing the guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I think that France has set an excellent example by finally deciding to take this step.", "pos": ["I find exemplary that France will be to take this step."], "neg": ["There will be 9.3 million visitors to hot spots in 2003, up from 2.5 million in 2002, Gartner said.", "A woman is adding ingredients to a bowl.", "It is not the time to be hesitant.", "A man is playing a guitar and singing.", "At Tuesday's arraignment hearing, Marsh pleaded not guilty to 122 counts of burial service fraud and 47 counts of making false statements."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Secondly, say no to the big bang idea of incorporating candidate countries simultaneously as a large group, since that would militate against the principle that each country should be admitted on its own merits.", "pos": ["Secondly, it is necessary to say “not” to the concept big-bang which would like that one admits at the same time an major group of country, because that would be in conflict with the principle of the admission of each country according to its merits."], "neg": ["Secondly, we must say 'no' to the big bang concept which would admit that at the same time, a large group of countries, because that would be at odds with the principle of the admission of each country according to its merits.", "My party expresses serious reservations about the regulation of the sale of consumer products by means of Community legislation, as it makes reservations about the concept of the mutual recognition of standards.", "Mr President, the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Internal Affairs has prepared carefully the Karamanou report.", "After Hughes refused to rehire Hernandez, he complained to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.", "A dog is watching a store counter."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Lastly, and most controversially, the committee strongly called for the use of a fast-track procedure to implement this legislation.", "pos": ["Lastly, and it is there a subject more discussed, the commission invited with strength to make use of the procedure accelerated to put in uvre this legislation."], "neg": ["I find a little strange to want as of now forcing the Commission with a motion for resolutions and to ask him in the same time to establish one Green Paper on the current state of the voluntary insurances and the complementary health insurances.", "He then stabbed two passersby as he fled along a promenade by the Mediterranean Sea.", "A man is carrying another man over his shoulder.", "At Tuesday's arraignment hearing, Marsh pleaded not guilty to 122 counts of burial service fraud and 47 counts of making false statements.", "A woman is washing her hands."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is unlikely that the planned protection of the universal provision of services by means of a compensatory fund, as a result of which private profits are ploughed back into public services, will last.", "pos": ["The safeguarding of the universal service with compensation fund which would make it possible to initiate private profits for the benefit of the public service will probably failure."], "neg": ["The maintenance of the universal service to the assistance of a compensation Fund which enable engaging the advantage of public service will probably long fire.", "The safeguarding of universal service to a compensation fund which would engage in private profits for the benefit of the public service will probably long.", "The safeguarding of the universal service to the aid of a compensation fund which would make it possible to engage in private profits for the benefit of the public service will probably long.", "The preservation of the universal service with a compensation fund which would make it possible to initiate private benefits for the benefit of the public service will probably long fire.", "The maintenance of the universal service means of a compensation fund which could initiate private profits for the benefit of the public service will probably deal fire."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Above all, when a one-man company or a company with fewer than 250 employees has a project, it should not need to provide 120% loan guarantees in the form of land to receive financing; it should also be possible for it to be funded on the basis of a good idea.", "pos": ["Above all, when a company unipersonnelle or a society with fewer than 250 employees has a project, it must be possible to benefit from funding not only with a guaranteed to 120%, but also on the basis of a simple idea:"], "neg": ["Above all, when a business or a society with fewer than 250 a project, it must be possible for a means not only with a guarantee to 120%, but also on the basis of a good idea.", "Above all, when a company or unipersonnelle a society relying less than 250 employees has a project, it must be possible to receive funding not only with a guarantee to 120%, but also on the simple basis of a good idea.", "Especially, when a unipersonal company or a company less cash than 250 paid has a project, it must be possible to be given a financing not only with one guarantee with 120%, but also on the simple basis of an good idea.", "Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to speak on the joint resolution that we shall, of course, be voting.", "Analysts had been expecting a net loss of 54 cents a share, according to Thomson First Call."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "(Parliament accepted the oral amendment)", "pos": ["(The Parliament accepts the oral amendment)"], "neg": ["Earnings were 59 cents a share for the three months ended May 25 compared with 15 cents a share a year earlier.", "The girls danced on the stage.", "Declarations must be followed by concrete steps to trace, freeze, seize and confiscate the proceeds of crime.", "The best-performing stock was Altria Group Inc., which rose more than 27 percent to close at $42.31 a share.", "He refused to reveal what percentage of flights carried sky marshals, or whether they would be increased."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On the other hand, we would like to be given a chance to prove to Europe that we are able to develop the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia on our own, by recognising the genuine principles of democracy.", "pos": ["In addition, we would like to be likely to prove in Europe which we are able to develop only the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia, by recognizing the true democratic principles."], "neg": ["In addition, we would like to have a chance to prove to the Europe that we are in a position to alone the cause of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia, while recognizing the principles.", "Lowe's, with about half as many stores, reported a 33 percent increase in third-quarter profit behind a 12 percent jump in same-store sales.", "Indeed, it is not absolutely certain that the definition of fair price proposed is better than another, because the different definitions are currently used in the Member States are enough is enough.", "A man plays the guitar and sings.", "AFTRA members approved the merger by a vote of 75.88% to 24.12%."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "And I am telling you loud and clear: Kostunica must be given his chance here and I therefore hope that he will give amnesty in the next couple of weeks or months, but meanwhile, I do want the introduction of those two new budget lines, democratisation and reconstruction, to be accompanied by political conditions, both from a political and budgetary perspective.", "pos": ["And I would say to you very clearly: it must be given a chance to Kostunica, and I therefore hope that it will provide an amnesty over the coming weeks or months; but in the meantime, I hope, however, that, in political terms and in budgetary terms, the political conditions are linked to the introduction of these two new budget lines, namely democratisation and reconstruction."], "neg": ["A man is playing a flute.", "Slovakia is not condemned to remain in the second group and it is logical that it wishes to join the Union at the same time as the Czech Republic.", "The woman is shooting a machine gun.", "A flag is waving.", "The UK Labour Members of the PSE Group welcome the favourable response given to the contribution they have made to the continuing work of the IGC on closer cooperation, without adhering fully to all the details of this."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "There has been a budget heading for the funding of mine clearance and prevention programmes for many years now.", "pos": ["A budget line has programmes to de-mining and prevention for years."], "neg": ["A budget line finances clearance programmes and of prevention since years.", "A budget line is funding programmes for mine clearance and prevention for years.", "A budget line, programmes and of many years.", "We have heard that the previous presidency first restructured then dismantled the Ministry for equal opportunities.", "Lastly, and most controversially, the committee strongly called for the use of a fast-track procedure to implement this legislation."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We welcome the arrangements proposed in this respect by the Preparatory Committee and adopted by the General Assembly regarding procedures for the registration of non-governmental organisations for involvement in the preparatory process and the Special Session in September 2001.", "pos": ["We congratulate the provisions proposed in this respect by the Committee and by the general Assembly of the United Nations with regard to the method of non-governmental organisations, and the extraordinary session of September 2001."], "neg": ["Fighting has continued sporadically in the west, where it is complicated by the presence of battle-hardened Liberians on both sides.", "Besides a sales slump, Siebel is sparring with some shareholders over management stock option windfalls.", "\"Tomorrow at the Mission Inn, I have the opportunity to congratulate the governor-elect of the great state of California.", "The author is one of several defense experts expected to testify.", "The new sensor -- dubbed CANARY for ''cellular analysis and notification of antigen risks and yields'' -- hijacks this natural process with two important changes."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I think that France has set an excellent example by finally deciding to take this step.", "pos": ["I find exemplary that France has resolved to take that step."], "neg": [". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united European continent.", "After all, it is by no means certain that the proposed definition of equitable price is better than any other, because the various definitions that are currently in use in the Member States are all perfectly satisfactory.", "His lawyer, a cousin, Basil Russin, did not attend the hearing and did not return phone messages.", "A man seasoning quail.", "Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar devoted to equal opportunities reinforces the integrated approach to equality through gender mainstreaming and through specific guidelines."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "pos": ["By withdrawing our resolution, I am nonetheless convinced that our Parliament would have done better in devoting its voice to the Nice European Council, a specific resolution and separate issues so important and so difficult to the Intergovernmental Conference, rather than to deal with them in the context of a single resolution including also all the other items on the agenda of the Council."], "neg": ["On health care, the NDP says there will be no privatization and no health-care premiums.", "Bond bulls would like the Fed to recognize that risks are biased toward economic weakness.", "But the United States' ultimate goal was not just to topple Mr. Hussein but to stabilize the country and install a friendly government.", "A woman is slicing an onion.", "\"They were tossed around like feathers,\" Gordon said."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We shall have to speak with just one disagreeable voice in the WTO.", "pos": ["We shall talk with one voice disgracieuse within the WTO."], "neg": ["We speak with a single voice within the WTO.", "We will speak with one voice grace within the WTO.", "We will speak with one voice disgracieuse within OMC.", "We speak with a single voice Language‒describes within the WTO.", "Kernan, who was O'Bannon's lieutenant governor, friend and political partner, was sworn in six hours after O'Bannon died Saturday."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The labelling of beef that was agreed on, which is a minimum form of labelling and only came into force two and a half months ago, does not make it possible for the origin of animals to be adequately traced, and we were very slow to ban specified risk materials.", "pos": ["The labelling of beef which has been decided, which is a minimum labelling and which has only been in force for two and a half months ago, does not make it possible to trace the origin of animals properly very late and have banned the specified risk material."], "neg": ["We welcome the arrangements proposed in this respect by the Preparatory Committee and adopted by the General Assembly regarding procedures for the registration of non-governmental organisations for involvement in the preparatory process and the Special Session in September 2001.", "The two men did a funny skit with a boxer in front of a crowd of people.", "A woman is washing off the top of a freezer.", "The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> was 0.46 points lower, or 0.05 percent, at 997.02.", "A woman is exercising."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement at all than a poor one and it is true that, in this instance, the American proposal was a third-rate proposal, and one which was completely unacceptable to Europe.", "pos": ["Without doubt, just better to have no agreement than having an agreement that is wrong and, in this case, the US proposal was a watered-down proposal, which is totally unacceptable for Europe."], "neg": ["The Nasdaq composite index fell 2.95, or 0.2 percent, for the week to 1,912.36 after stumbling 37.78 yesterday.", "Two men are fighting in a cattle pen.", "International rescue workers are scouring flattened debris for survivors in Iran's shattered ancient Silk Road city of Bam after a violent earthquake killed more than 20,000 people.", "The people threw the dummy over the cliff edge.", "Madam President, I ask you, on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries and on my own behalf, to send a message of condolence from Parliament to the families of the victims and to the local authorities of both Brittany and of Marín, city of Galicia, which is from the majority of the victims."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Knowledge of foreign languages is accepted as a necessary precursor to mobility.", "pos": ["It is allowed that the knowledge of foreign languages is a necessary precondition with mobility."], "neg": ["A man is passionately playing a guitar in front of an audience.", "The lady put the baby int a trashcan.", "A person is slicing some onions.", "On Monday, Abbey trotted on stage, tail wagging, with Conway before a crowd of 10,000 attendees at PeopleSoft's annual customer conference.", "Dennehy, who transferred to Baylor last year after getting kicked off the University of New Mexico Lobos for temper tantrums, became a born-again Christian in June 2002."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Either we are in a club or we are out of it and it is particularly important that we accept this.", "pos": ["Either we belong to the club, or we are not and we must therefore be packed with this decision."], "neg": ["Either we are part of the club, we are not and we must, therefore, we have to comply with this.", "\"The executive board decided to refer this to the capitals,\" the Korean Energy Development Organization said.", "I have already replied to this point and I agree entirely with what he said about the need to improve considerably the public debate I will not repeat what I said, but it is true that, all too often, citizens feel alienated to decisions that are taken in bodies that they do not know.", "A masked man sings.", "I know that in France they have had whole herd slaughter and this does not seem to be the best way forward."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The UK Labour members of the PES Group welcome the adoption of their contribution to the ongoing work of the IGC on reinforced cooperation, without endorsing every single detail.", "pos": [". The British Labour Members of the PSE Group welcomes the support given to the contribution to the work of the IGC on closer cooperation, without adhere entirely with all the details of this."], "neg": [". (IN) the British Labor Members of group PSE are pleased with the favourable response reserved for the contribution which they made to the ongoing work of the IGC on the reinforced cooperation, without adhering completely to all the details of this one.", "(it) the British labour Members of the Group of the Party of European Socialists is very welcome to the contribution that they have continuous work of the IGC on the cooperation, without all the details of this.", "The Conference Board reported its U.S. Consumer Confidence Index slipped to 83.5 in June from 83.6 in May.", "The router will be available in the first quarter of 2004 and will cost around $200, the company said.", "Doctors have speculated that the body’s own estrogen protects against cell damage and improves blood flow."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, I would like to focus in my speech on Mrs Lalumière' s report, which I think is clearly worded and well put together.", "pos": ["Mr President, I shall concentrate in my speech on the report by Mrs Lalumière report, that I find well thought-out and clearly formulated."], "neg": ["In withdrawing our resolution, I am, however, convinced that our Parliament would have made its voice heard in dedicating, in view of the Nice Council, a resolution and traditional so important and so difficult to the Intergovernmental Conference, rather than to deal in the framework of a single resolution including also all the other points of the agenda of the Council.", "A man is cutting a boot with a sword.", "In my view, there is, however, nothing worse than to have to warn the people a ruling in their favour could be a series of reassuring words and have no concrete result on their existence.", "In two weeks, he'll probably send out Peace Rules in the Preakness.", "Cisco executives were encouraged by $1.3 billion in cash flow and the increase in net income, but said they remained ``cautiously optimistic'' about a rebound."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is gratifying that Parliament has succeeded in producing a large majority in favour of more openness.", "pos": ["We should be pleased that Parliament has succeeded in bringing together a large majority in favour of greater transparency."], "neg": ["Do you think that the Austrian model, i.e. bilateral majority resolutions, will be used in future as a way of passing resolutions which bypass the European institutions and of forming a new institution or a new group in order to circumvent unanimity in the Council?", "A woman is slicing a leek.", "They said they had concluded that the film failed \"to present a balanced portrayal\" of the Reagans.", "By withdrawing our resolution, I express however the conviction that our Parliament would have better done to hear its voice while devoting, for Conseil of Nice, a resolution specific and distinct with the so important and so difficult topics to the intergovernmental Conference, rather than to treat them within the framework of one only resolution also including all the other points of about an agenda of the Council.", "A man is driving a car."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That made them heavily dependent on loans.", "pos": ["A development which made them dependent on the borrowed capital."], "neg": ["A policy which has been strongly capital.", "A development which made capital borrowed heavily dependent.", "A development which has made heavily dependent on capital loans.", "The cat shimmied under the bed.", "A woman is slicing a lemon."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "There has been a budget heading for the funding of mine clearance and prevention programmes for many years now.", "pos": ["A budget line has programmes for mine clearance and prevention for years."], "neg": ["A budget line finances clearance programmes and of prevention since years.", "A budget line is funding programmes for mine clearance and prevention for years.", "A budget line, programmes and of many years.", "A man is playing a keyboard.", "A woman fixes her hair."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is a vague area, and it is possible that more restrictive provisions may also remain in force, and this is one point in respect of which we have tabled amendments.", "pos": ["Things are not clear on this point, and it is not impossible that can also remain in force more restrictive measures, and that is particularly on this point that we have tabled amendments."], "neg": ["It is not clear on this point, and it is not impossible that can also remain in force for more restrictive provisions. This is particularly on this point that we have tabled amendments.", "After all, it is by no means certain that the proposed definition of equitable price is better than any other, because the various definitions that are currently in use in the Member States are all perfectly satisfactory.", "A man is dicing an onion.", "The bill says that a woman who undergoes such an abortion couldn't be prosecuted.", "A man and a woman are talking to each other."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is also the position advocated by the rapporteur, and it is shared by the European People' s Party.", "pos": ["This is the position defended by the rapporteur and by the popular Party."], "neg": ["A woman is applying eye shadow.", "The academy will get its own internal report next week and it will be made public, Rosa said.", "The lady put the baby int a trashcan.", "It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union.", "A woman is adding oil to a pan."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "- My party has serious reservations about Community law applying to the sale of consumer products, as against applying the concept of mutual recognition of standards.", "pos": ["My Party to serious and about the rules of the sale of consumer products by means of the Community, just as it sets about the concept of mutual recognition of standards."], "neg": ["A man is speaking on a phone.", "In addition, \"fewer than 10\" FBI offices have conducted investigations involving visits to Islamic mosques, the Justice Department said.", "Above all, when a one-man company or a company with fewer than 250 employees has a project, it should not need to provide 120% loan guarantees in the form of land to receive financing; it should also be possible for it to be funded on the basis of a good idea.", "The chef poured oil in the pan.", "The lady added cheese to the sauce."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That made them heavily dependent on loans.", "pos": ["A development which made highly dependent on capital borrowed."], "neg": ["A policy which has been strongly capital.", "A development which made capital borrowed heavily dependent.", "A development which has made heavily dependent on capital loans.", "Gemstar's shares gathered up 2.6 percent, adding 14 cents to $5.49 at the close.", "The lady made some slices on the shrimp."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is gratifying that Parliament has succeeded in producing a large majority in favour of more openness.", "pos": ["It is necessary to be delighted that the Parliament succeeded in gathering a broad majority in favour of a greater transparency."], "neg": ["A woman is braiding her hair.", "The House had also fought, however, for the reduction of the funds available for innovative measures to be offset by means of resources from the flexibility instrument, a demand which is recorded in a declaration on the financial perspective in the Interinstitutional Agreement.", "\"It is about a third of what I owe in the world,\" he told reporters.", "It must genuinely be a centre for coordinating the network of national agencies which, in turn, must activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence for food safety at the level of the individual regions.", "The man is talking."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That was changed in the face of criticism, especially from Ireland and France, and a different spin has now been put on it by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer: it is now being portrayed as a user charge for all, including British lorry drivers.", "pos": ["In view of the criticism, especially those in Ireland and France, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has given a new interpretation: it is now a tax for all users, including the British lorry drivers."], "neg": ["Faced with criticism, especially those in Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer gave a new interpretation of it: it is now a tax for all users, including the British drivers of heavy goods vehicles.", "Given the criticisms, particularly those of Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer has given a new interpretation: it would now a tax for all users, including the lorry drivers in the UK.", "A man is eating his food.", "Shares of SCO closed at $10.93, down 28 cents, in Monday trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market.", "Stout previously worked for General Electric subsidiary GE Capital Service Inc., where he was vice president and chief technology and information officer."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The lesson for this Parliament this morning must be that we have to conclude that maritime laws throughout the world are in a state of shambles and we have to begin the process of putting them right.", "pos": ["The lesson that must keep this Assembly in its debate of this morning is that we are forced to conclude that the maritime laws are, all over the world, in a State of mess, and that we should get down to the task to put in order."], "neg": ["The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.7 per cent to 9,547.43 while the S&P 500 was 0.8 per cent weaker at 1,025.79.", "A woman is washing her hands.", "- (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united Europe.", "The man is playing the piano with his nose.", "On the situation in Burma."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "All those who are at present engaged in illicit work would obtain work with decent social conditions.", "pos": ["All those who are currently working on the black market to obtain an employment in decent social conditions."], "neg": ["Everyone who works are currently obtiendraient undeclared work in decent social conditions.", "For the full year period ending June 30, 2003, high-speed lines increased by 45 percent.", "A woman is putting oil into a skillet.", "A woman is riding an elephant.", "In Nigeria, Chevron has been accused by the All-Ijaw indigenous people of instigating violence against them and actually paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot protesters at the Warri naval base."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, I voted for the García-Margallo y Marfil report on the taxation of electronic commerce.", "pos": ["Mr President, I voted in favour of the Garcia-Margallo y Marfil report, which deals with the taxation of services provided electronically."], "neg": ["Mr President, I voted in favour of the García-Margallo y Marfil report, which concerns the taxation of services provided by way.", "Taiwan has attempted to gain observer status to the United Nations-affiliated WHO for seven years, but again was rebuffed March 19 at its annual conference in Geneva.", "I find it rather odd that people are already trying to tie the Commission's hands in relation to the proposal for a directive, while at the same calling on it to present a Green Paper on the current situation with regard to optional and supplementary health insurance schemes.", "Given the criticisms, particularly those of Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer has given a new interpretation: it would now a tax for all users, including the lorry drivers in the UK.", "I would urge the French Presidency to do their utmost to overcome this divide, because it is extremely destructive."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Thirdly, acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the individual countries and for the EU as a whole basically depend - and Denmark demonstrated this - on dismantling the social and democratic deficits of European policy.", "pos": ["Thirdly, the acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the different countries and for the EU as a whole - depends on the example of Denmark is for us to show - largely of the elimination of social and democratic deficits in European policy."], "neg": ["Thirdly: the approval of the enlargement and its positive prospects for the different countries and for the EU as a whole and - the example of Denmark is for us to the point - matters of the social and economic policy.", "A woman fixes her hair.", "Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda.", "The Council of Europe, along with the Court of Human Rights, has a wealth of experience of such forms of supervision, and we can build on these.", "The man was pushed into the water."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, the Commission' s attitude to the right of access to documents may be seen from the internal handbook sent on 11 October to employees of the Commission to tell them how to deal with requests from MEPs for access to documents.", "pos": ["Mr. President, we can know the position of the Commission as regards access to public documents by reading the internal handbook which was given, on October 11, with the Commission officials in order to explain the way to them in which they were to treat the requests emanating of the deputies with regard to the access to the documents."], "neg": ["Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement at all than a poor one and it is true that, in this instance, the American proposal was a third-rate proposal, and one which was completely unacceptable to Europe.", "Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement have an agreement that is wrong and, in this case, the American proposal was a watered-down proposal totally unacceptable for Europe.", "A person is placing a baby komodo dragon into a container.", "A man is taking out the insides of a green pepper.", "Mr Gayssot, Greek ships have sunk without warning, when there were no storms in the vicinity."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market rightly insists on no upper limit and a minimum of no less than 7%.", "pos": ["It is right that the Committee on Legal Affairs persists in refusing a ceiling and the maintenance of a minimum rate which cannot be less than 7%."], "neg": ["It is just that the Committee on legal Affairs of the refusal of a ceiling and in the maintenance of a minimum rate which cannot be 7%.", "Shares in EDS closed on Thursday at $18.51, a gain of 6 cents.", "The joint economic activities create peaceful links between peoples.", "The developers, The Related Cos. and Apollo Real Estate Advisors, hope sales top $1 billion.", "Mr President, we can see the Commission's position in terms of public access to documents by reading the internal manual which was given on 11 October, with the Commission officials in order to explain the way in which they were to deal with the requests from the Members with regard to access to documents."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Thirdly, acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the individual countries and for the EU as a whole basically depend - and Denmark demonstrated this - on dismantling the social and democratic deficits of European policy.", "pos": ["Thirdly: the acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the various countries and for the EU as a whole depend - the example of Denmark is here to show this - largely to the elimination of social and democratic deficits in European policy."], "neg": ["Thirdly: the approval of the enlargement and its positive prospects for the different countries and for the EU as a whole and - the example of Denmark is for us to the point - matters of the social and economic policy.", "The boy fired once into a wall and sprayed the room with fire extinguishers, making it hard to see, the chief said.", "Two men are fighting in a cow pasture.", "Graham is expected to be nominated and elected to a second one-year term today and will deliver the presidential address.", "A parrot is talking into a microphone."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, we took a great deal of care over preparing the Karamanou report in the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs.", "pos": ["Mr. President, the Committee on Citizens and of the rights of citizens, justice and the businesses interiors prepared with much care the Karamanou report/ratio."], "neg": ["A man is playing a guitar.", "This rule can also apply to all drugs récréationnelles but dangerous, provided that the consumer of drugs is the only one to run risks.", "Mr Colpin did not specify whether it was this system that was at the centre of the investigation.", "This is our priority fight in order to ensure that the affirmation of fundamental rights is put into practice in our political decisions.", "A man is bowling."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "There is an urgent need, following the recent attacks on the Greek minority in Himara, to promote democratisation measures and measures to strengthen institutions and respect for human rights in Albania.", "pos": ["The recent incidents against the Greek imperative more the need to promote measures, of strengthening the institutions and the respect of human rights in Albania."], "neg": ["A boy is playing the violin onstage.", "A man in a suit is standing at a microphone and singing.", "A man in a library is talking.", "On my own behalf and on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries, I would ask you, Madam President, to send Parliament' s condolences to the families of the victims and to the local authorities in both Brittany and in Marín, Galicia, from where the majority of the victims came.", "MSN Messenger 6 will be available for download starting at 6 p.m. GMT on Wednesday from http://messenger.msn.com/download/v6preview.asp."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Worst of all, I believe, is having to issue a warning that a court judgment in their favour may just be a set of comforting words and make no real difference in their lives.", "pos": ["In my eyes, there is however nothing worse than to have to inform people that a judgment delivered in their favour could be only one series of comforting words and not to have any practical consequence on their existence."], "neg": ["In my view, however, there is nothing worse than having to warn people that a ruling in their favour could not have been a series of words réconfortants and do not have any consequences concrete on their existence.", "In my view, there is, however, nothing worse than to have to warn the people a ruling in their favour could be a series of reassuring words and have no concrete result on their existence.", "He planned to stay all day until the river crested, which was forecast for late last night.", "Certainly, it was not to have an agreement better than to have an agreement which is wrong and, in this case, the American proposal was a proposal to the reduction, totally unacceptable for Europe.", "A woman is exercising."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "pos": ["In withdrawing our resolution, I am, however, convinced that our Parliament would have made its voice heard in dedicating, in view of the Nice Council, a resolution and traditional so important and so difficult to the Intergovernmental Conference, rather than to deal in the framework of a single resolution including also all the other points of the agenda of the Council."], "neg": ["There were 293 human cases of West Nile in Indiana in 2002, including 11 deaths statewide.", "They asked that the autopsy reports be unsealed after portions of the autopsy report on Peterson's unborn son that were favorable to the defense were leaked to the media.", "\"Spin and manipulative public relations and propaganda are not the answer,\" it said.", "A man plays a trumpet.", "Either we part of the club, or we are not, and we must therefore we bow to this decision."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The French Presidency thanks you, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for this cooperation, for your support and also for the warm reception you have given us.", "pos": ["For this co-operation, for your support and also for your reception, Madam the President, Mesdames and the European Deputies, the French presidency thanks you."], "neg": ["Among other things, Microsoft is to comment on proposed remedies in its response.", "This is no time for the faint-hearted.", "Given the criticisms, particularly those of Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer has given a new interpretation: it would now a tax for all users, including the lorry drivers in the UK.", "A kid is playing an instrument.", "Four months later it signed a joint marketing agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, I would like to focus in my speech on Mrs Lalumière' s report, which I think is clearly worded and well put together.", "pos": ["Mr President, I shall concentrate in my speech on the report by Mrs Lalumière, report that I find well and clearly."], "neg": ["The other viewpoint illustrated by the rapporteur' s initial statement and shared by a number of members is to promote regulations and codes of conduct which are needed in order to establish among insurers ways of organising costs on a mutual basis providing everybody with guaranteed access to high-quality care and to counter the risk of discriminatory practices developing together with risk and client selection.", "A rabbit is sniffing and pawing a stuffed rabbit.", "A person is riding a horse.", "WorldCom's accounting problems came to light early last year, and the company filed for bankruptcy in July 2002, citing massive accounting irregularities.", ". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and unified European continent."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "There is an urgent need, following the recent attacks on the Greek minority in Himara, to promote democratisation measures and measures to strengthen institutions and respect for human rights in Albania.", "pos": ["The recent incidents against the Greek minority of Himara more imperative the need to promote measures of democratisation, strengthening of the institutions and respect for human rights in Albania."], "neg": ["A baby is playing a guitar.", "A boy is playing the violin onstage.", "The House voted 425 to 2 to clear the bill, the first of 13 that Congress must pass each year to fund the federal government.", "A woman puts slabs of meat in a pan.", "The study also found that consumer goods advertisers continued to spend the most dollars online, representing 35% of all Web advertising."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "From the first discussions on this dossier, which were held at European level at the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission has given a commitment to the Member States to pursue a course of action designed to develop what we might call a European police culture, grounded in the highest standards of duty, respect for the rights and freedoms of our citizens and efficiency in the fight against crime.", "pos": ["Since the first thoughts on this issue, which took place at European level on the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission is committed to the Member States to promote action to develop what we might regard as a European police culture, based on the highest standards in the field of ethics, respect for the rights and freedoms of the citizens, and effectiveness in the fight against crime."], "neg": ["The only case for which no tax is not yet seen is one of supply in the European Community from a third country.", "The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index was up 7.60 points, or 0.46 percent, at 1,653.62.", "The woman is slicing herbs.", "There is, of course, a very important point is the fact that we have begun category four, with his approach, but we do not yet know very well if we managed to solve the problem, not least because the Council does not wish to participate in the discussion.", "Fletcher said he expects to have the support of lawmakers from agricultural states, many of whom are on the committee."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is also the position advocated by the rapporteur, and it is shared by the European People' s Party.", "pos": ["That is the position advocated by the rapporteur and supported by the European People's Party."], "neg": ["The resolution on Nice, voted today, does not reflect this.", "Also, businesses throughout Utah are volunteering to display Amber alerts on their signs.", "Women models are walking down a catwalk.", "A monkey pratices martial arts.", "I should like to thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, Mr Brok, for his clear, comprehensive report."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is gratifying that Parliament has succeeded in producing a large majority in favour of more openness.", "pos": ["It should be delighted that the Parliament together a broad majority in favour of greater transparency."], "neg": ["I would urge the French Presidency to do their utmost to overcome this divide, because it is extremely destructive.", "A man is putting anti-freeze into a car.", "These objectives, the main one and the secondary ones, will be the touchstone by which the concrete proposals submitted by the Commission must be judged.", "Texas, which has more than three times Michigan's inmate population, is treating 328 of its 16,298 infected inmates.", "The common economic activities create peaceful links between people."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Knowledge of foreign languages is accepted as a necessary precursor to mobility.", "pos": ["It is accepted that knowledge of foreign languages is a necessary precondition to mobility."], "neg": ["A cartoon woman dives into a pool.", "A baby is crawling happily.", "Especially, when a unipersonal company or a company less cash than 250 paid has a project, it must be possible to be given a financing not only with one guarantee with 120%, but also on the simple basis of an good idea.", "Apple Computer's new online music service sold more than 1 million songs during its first week of operation, the company said Monday.", "A person is playing the keyboard."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I find it rather odd that people are already trying to tie the Commission's hands in relation to the proposal for a directive, while at the same calling on it to present a Green Paper on the current situation with regard to optional and supplementary health insurance schemes.", "pos": ["I find it a little strange to want as of now forcing the Commission to a motion for a resolution and to ask him at the same time to draw up a Green Paper on the current state of voluntary insurance and supplementary sickness insurance."], "neg": ["I am a bit of him now to compel the Commission to a motion for a resolution and ask him in a time to establish a Green Paper on the current State of voluntary insurance and health insurance.", "We shall have to speak with just one disagreeable voice in the WTO.", "A woman is putting on makeup.", "Shevaun Pennington disappeared on Saturday morning after arranging to meet 31-year-old Toby Studabaker.", "Above all, when a one-man company or a company with fewer than 250 employees has a project, it should not need to provide 120% loan guarantees in the form of land to receive financing; it should also be possible for it to be funded on the basis of a good idea."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "But I would like to say to Parliament this afternoon that we should not lose sight of the fact that the EU spends just 1% of GDP and much of that is administered in the Member States.", "pos": ["However, I would like to say to the House this afternoon that we should not lose sight of the fact that the European Union spends only 1% of GDP of the Member States and that most of this money is managed in the Member States."], "neg": ["Nevertheless, I would like to say to the idea that we must not lose sight of the fact that the European Union does not believe that 1% of the GDP of the Member States and that the bulk of this money is managed in the Member States.", "I find it a little strange to try to now force the Commission to a motion for a resolution and ask him in a same time to establish a Green Paper on the current state of voluntary insurance and health insurance complementary.", "A man is peeling a banana.", "A woman is climbing a rock wall.", "The ingredients of such a polypill would contain aspirin, a cholesterol-lowering statin, three blood pressure-lowering agents in half dose, and folic acid."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On the other hand, we would like to be given a chance to prove to Europe that we are able to develop the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia on our own, by recognising the genuine principles of democracy.", "pos": ["Furthermore, we would like to be able to demonstrate in Europe which we are able to develop only the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia, recognising the true democratic principles."], "neg": ["In addition, we would like to have a chance to prove to the Europe that we are in a position to alone the cause of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia, while recognizing the principles.", "Either we are in a club or we are out of it and it is particularly important that we accept this.", "I know that in France, the principle of the slaughter of whole herds was applied and that does not seem to be the best way to combat this phenomenon.", "A person is slicing cantaloupe.", "Nationally, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 4,156 cases of West Nile, including 284 deaths."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The right of a government arbitrarily to set aside its own constitution is the defining characteristic of a tyranny.", "pos": ["The right to a government to remove arbitrarily its Constitution is the defining characteristic of a tyranny."], "neg": ["We have started to exchange ideas on this question, from which it has emerged that all the Member States want to maintain this ceiling after enlargement.", "A kitten is eating its food from a plate.", "\"We've become like total strangers,\" John told a pal two days before his death.", "A woman is folding paper.", "A woman slices a fish."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I also voted against a text which calls for the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the eventual Treaty of Nice.", "pos": ["I have also voted against a text that calls for the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the future Treaty to be adopted in Nice."], "neg": ["We need to know today, since we are always in uncertainty, what are the scientific data, what measures are to be taken.", "Police believe Wilson shot Reynolds, then her mother once in the head before fatally turning the gun on herself.", "A man is moon-walking across a store.", "The labelling of beef which has been decided, which is a minimum labelling and which entered into force for two and a half months, does not allow for properly tracing the origin of animals, and we have belatedly banned specified risk material.", "I should also have liked the Court of Auditors' report to have been a little more user-friendly and to have provided a number of clear recommendations, for example one or two per chapter."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is a vague area, and it is possible that more restrictive provisions may also remain in force, and this is one point in respect of which we have tabled amendments.", "pos": ["Things are not clear on this point, and it is not impossible that can also remain in force more restrictive measures, which is particularly on this point that we have tabled amendments."], "neg": ["It is not clear on this point, and it is not impossible that can also remain in force for more restrictive provisions. This is particularly on this point that we have tabled amendments.", "A baby is playing with a dog.", "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "\"The recent turnaround in the stock market and an easing in unemployment claims should keep consumer expectations at current levels and may signal more favorable economic times ahead.\"", "Dennehy, who transferred to Baylor last year after getting kicked off the University of New Mexico Lobos for temper tantrums, had begun to read the Bible daily."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Do you think that the Austrian model, i.e. bilateral majority resolutions, will be used in future as a way of passing resolutions which bypass the European institutions and of forming a new institution or a new group in order to circumvent unanimity in the Council?", "pos": ["Do you think that the “Austrian” model - namely decision making majority bilateral - will in the future constitute an instrument making it possible to make decisions by being unaware of the European institutions and to found a new institution, or a new group, to be able to circumvent the rule of unanimity within the Council?"], "neg": ["Do you think that the model of the \"-\" - namely the majority - will be in the future as a means of taking in ignoring the European institutions and to a new institution, or a new Group, to be able to bypass the rule of unanimity in the Council?", "Reiterating the calls made by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000, what initiatives does the Presidency of the European Council propose to take with a view to playing a more active role so as to guarantee the full and complete application of the UN peace plan?", "Someone is cutting a piece of meat.", "That is what we have done: we have avoided a budgetary crisis by returning to Article 272; the financial perspective has been maintained, even if we have used the flexibility instrument.", "A woman is playing an electric guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is unlikely that the planned protection of the universal provision of services by means of a compensatory fund, as a result of which private profits are ploughed back into public services, will last.", "pos": ["The safeguard of the universal service using compensation funds which would make it possible to engage of the private profits to the profit of the public service will probably make failure."], "neg": ["The maintenance of the universal service to the assistance of a compensation Fund which enable engaging the advantage of public service will probably long fire.", "The safeguarding of universal service to a compensation fund which would engage in private profits for the benefit of the public service will probably long.", "The safeguarding of the universal service to the aid of a compensation fund which would make it possible to engage in private profits for the benefit of the public service will probably long.", "The preservation of the universal service with a compensation fund which would make it possible to initiate private benefits for the benefit of the public service will probably long fire.", "The maintenance of the universal service means of a compensation fund which could initiate private profits for the benefit of the public service will probably deal fire."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "- My party has serious reservations about Community law applying to the sale of consumer products, as against applying the concept of mutual recognition of standards.", "pos": ["My Party expresses serious reservations about the regulation of the sale of consumer goods by means of Community legislation, as it makes reservations about the concept of mutual recognition of standards."], "neg": ["This rule can be applied equally to all recreational but dangerous drugs when no one but the person consuming the drug is likely to be affected.", "The debate is closed.", "I would urge the French Presidency to do their utmost to overcome this divide, because it is extremely destructive.", "The federal standard for ozone is 0.12 parts per million.", "The new research will be published soon in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On my own behalf and on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries, I would ask you, Madam President, to send Parliament' s condolences to the families of the victims and to the local authorities in both Brittany and in Marín, Galicia, from where the majority of the victims came.", "pos": ["Madam President, I ask you, on behalf of my colleagues of the Commission and on my own behalf, to send a message from Parliament to the families of the victims and the local authorities of both of city of Galicia, where they are in the majority of victims."], "neg": ["A Woman is eating.", "Someone is reading an email.", "A person is burning cameras.", "A woman is slicing a carrot.", "That was changed in the face of criticism, especially from Ireland and France, and a different spin has now been put on it by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer: it is now being portrayed as a user charge for all, including British lorry drivers."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr Gayssot, Greek ships have sunk without warning, when there were no storms in the vicinity.", "pos": ["Ships Greeks have sunk, without that there are the slightest storm in the exist, Mr Gayssot."], "neg": ["Vessels, without which there is the slightest, Mr Gayssot.", "Greek vessels flowed, without any storm in around, Mr Gayssot.", "Greek ships ran, without there being the least storm in trimmings, Mr Gayssot.", "A man is dancing.", "A person is adding chili powder to chili with beans."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "People with the same business affairs in common are peacefully bound to one another.", "pos": ["The common economic activities create peaceful bonds between the people."], "neg": ["The economic activities Commons generating peaceful links between people.", "The economic activities of links between the people.", "Someone is carrying a fish.", "I wonder if the Commissioner has planned any steps in this respect to demonstrate that we really do consider Kostunica to be the only lawfully elected representative of the Serbian people, and the only partner with whom the European Union is involved as from today.", "A man is playing piano."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Secondly, say no to the big bang idea of incorporating candidate countries simultaneously as a large group, since that would militate against the principle that each country should be admitted on its own merits.", "pos": ["Secondly, it is necessary to say \"no\" to the concept to accept at the same time an important Group of countries, because this would be in contradiction with the principle of the admission of each country according to its merits."], "neg": ["Secondly, we must say 'no' to the big bang concept which would admit that at the same time, a large group of countries, because that would be at odds with the principle of the admission of each country according to its merits.", "A man and a woman are kissing each other.", "However, the Saudi interior minister, Prince Nayef, denied the reports.", "We have heard that the previous Council Presidency first restructured and then scrapped the Ministry for Equality.", "A woman brushes some shrimp."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The aim of the annual review is to identify such potential improvements.", "pos": ["The annual report aims to identify potential such improvements."], "neg": ["People are sweeping water out of a house.", "Spain has developed in a way the positive extremely difficult neighbourhood that has always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "The incremental step, reported by researchers at UC San Francisco, is the latest in a decade-long effort to infect mice with the virus.", "There are 103 Democrats in the Assembly and 47 Republicans.", "Other countries and private creditors are owed at least $80 billion in addition."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is our priority fight in order to ensure that the affirmation of fundamental rights is put into practice in our political decisions.", "pos": ["This is our struggle for priority that the affirmation of fundamental rights to be implemented in political choices."], "neg": ["I have also voted against a text that calls for the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the future Treaty to be adopted in Nice.", "The nation's largest retailer has told its 100 top suppliers they have to start using electronic tags on all pallets of goods by Jan. 25, 2005.", "A step in the right direction, for which the European Parliament has been striving for a long time now, is the creation of a provisional unit for judicial cooperation.", "We heard that the previous presidency initially restructured then dismantled the ministry for the equal opportunity.", "on the situation in Burma"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I also voted against a text which calls for the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the eventual Treaty of Nice.", "pos": ["I have also voted against a text which calls for the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the future Treaty which will be adopted in Nice."], "neg": ["The new version, W32/Sobig.C-mm, had already reached a \"high level\" outbreak status by Monday, according to security analysts.", "Clearly, explanations are necessary for the increased incidence of BSE, not only in France but also in other Member States.", "The MDC called the strike to force Mr Mugabe to either resign or negotiate a settlement of the Zimbabwe crisis.", "Faced with these realities, the need for greater involvement and greater efficiency in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment is essential.", "A cow is eating grass."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Secondly, say no to the big bang idea of incorporating candidate countries simultaneously as a large group, since that would militate against the principle that each country should be admitted on its own merits.", "pos": ["Secondly, we must say 'no' to the concept which bang would admit that at the same time an important group of countries, because that would be at odds with the principle of the admission of each country on its merits."], "neg": ["Secondly, we must say 'no' to the big bang concept which would admit that at the same time, a large group of countries, because that would be at odds with the principle of the admission of each country according to its merits.", "As the Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe has also a solid experience regarding such forms of control; we can take to basis.", "Two men fistfight in a ring.", "License sales, a key measure of demand, fell 21 percent to $107.6 million.", "He was referring to John S. Reed, the former Citicorp chief executive who became interim chairman and chief executive of the exchange last Sunday ."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The UK Labour members of the PES Group welcome the adoption of their contribution to the ongoing work of the IGC on reinforced cooperation, without endorsing every single detail.", "pos": [". The British Labour Members of the Group of the Party of European Socialists welcomes the support given to the contribution they have made to the work of the IGC on closer cooperation, without adhering fully to all the details of it."], "neg": [". (IN) the British Labor Members of group PSE are pleased with the favourable response reserved for the contribution which they made to the ongoing work of the IGC on the reinforced cooperation, without adhering completely to all the details of this one.", "(it) the British labour Members of the Group of the Party of European Socialists is very welcome to the contribution that they have continuous work of the IGC on the cooperation, without all the details of this.", "Prairie dogs are believed to have become infected in a pet shop through a Gambian rat imported from Africa.", "A woman is putting on sun glasses.", "Police using pepper spray arrested 12 people Monday night at a march and rally by about 400 activists protesting an annual training seminar of the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On the contrary, the influence of the national democracies is being reduced by the further restriction of the right of veto and by the fact that the European Parliament is being given more power.", "pos": ["On the contrary, the influence of the national democracies fall into force by the further restriction of the right of veto and to increasing the power of Parliament to the EU."], "neg": ["On the contrary, the power of the national democracies is increasingly to restrict the right of veto and of giving Parliament more power for the EU.", "It crosses the 8 January of this year. it is to have a Union of Tunisian opponents in France, which Moreover it.", "\"In so many different ways, the artistry of black musicians has conveyed the experience of black Americans throughout our history,\" Bush said.", "King County Superior Court Judge Charles Mertel will then recess the trial until Monday.", "A man is petting two dogs."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The resolution on Nice, voted today, does not reflect this.", "pos": ["The resolution about the Summit of Nice, which has just been voted, does not reflect it."], "neg": ["The resolution on the Nice Summit, which just does not.", "A lion is walking around.", "A development which made capital borrowed heavily dependent.", "Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar devoted to equal opportunities reinforces the integrated approach to equality through gender mainstreaming and through specific guidelines.", "But I would like to say to Parliament this afternoon that we should not lose sight of the fact that the EU spends just 1% of GDP and much of that is administered in the Member States."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Firstly, simplification and clarification of the Treaties.", "pos": ["Initially, that of a simplification and a clarification of the Treaties."], "neg": ["An animal is walking.", "An animal is walking on the ground.", "A man is serving cake.", "I thank the rapporteur for the Committee on foreign Affairs, Mr Brok, for his clear and comprehensive report.", "I know that in France, the slaughter of whole herds principle was applied and that it does not seem to be the best way to combat this phenomenon."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "As there is still a lot of uncertainty, we must know what the scientific facts are and what action must be taken.", "pos": ["We need to know today, since we are still in uncertainty, what are the scientific data, what measures are to be taken."], "neg": ["Clearly, explanations are necessary for the increased incidence of BSE, not only in France but also in other Member States.", "A woman is peeling an orange.", "A lion is walking in an enclosed area.", "By withdrawing our resolution, I am nonetheless convinced that our Parliament would have done better in devoting its voice to the Nice European Council, a specific resolution and separate issues so important and so difficult to the Intergovernmental Conference, rather than to deal with them in the context of a single resolution including also all the other items on the agenda of the Council.", "From the first discussions on this dossier, which were held at European level at the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission has given a commitment to the Member States to pursue a course of action designed to develop what we might call a European police culture, grounded in the highest standards of duty, respect for the rights and freedoms of our citizens and efficiency in the fight against crime."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On the contrary, the influence of the national democracies is being reduced by the further restriction of the right of veto and by the fact that the European Parliament is being given more power.", "pos": ["On the contrary, the power of the national democracies is being reduced by the further restriction of the right of veto and by the fact that the European Parliament is being given more power."], "neg": ["On the contrary, the power of the national democracies is increasingly to restrict the right of veto and of giving Parliament more power for the EU.", "The most common side effects after getting the nasal spray were nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat and cough.", "The woman is pouring oil into the pan.", "The man is eating.", "It added it had \"co-operated fully\" with police since November."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Spain has done a magnificent job in turning round the difficult neighbourly relations which Europe and North Africa and Spain and Morocco have suffered during the course of history.", "pos": ["Spain developed in a remarkably positive way the difficult vicinity which always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco."], "neg": ["Spain has developed a remarkably positive the difficult that always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "Spain has developed in a way the positive extremely difficult neighbourhood that has always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "A man is breaking wooden boards with his hand.", "The New York Mets then selected outfielder Lastings Milledge from Lakewood Ranch High School in Florida.", "A woman is washing off the top of a freezer."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Secondly, say no to the big bang idea of incorporating candidate countries simultaneously as a large group, since that would militate against the principle that each country should be admitted on its own merits.", "pos": ["Secondly, we must say 'no' to the concept bang who would like to see the same time admit a large group of countries, because that would be in contradiction with the principle of the admission of each country according to its merits."], "neg": ["Secondly, we must say 'no' to the big bang concept which would admit that at the same time, a large group of countries, because that would be at odds with the principle of the admission of each country according to its merits.", "A man is traveling in a boat.", "Initially, that of a simplification and a clarification of the Treaties.", "The lawsuit named Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, a Democrat, and the registrars of voters in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.", "My party serious reservations about the regulation of the sale of consumption by means of Community legislation, as it has reservations about the concept of mutual recognition of standards."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "There is, of course, one crucial event, namely that a start has been made with category four and with looking at ways how we will deal with it, but it is not yet entirely clear whether we have managed to resolve this, partly because the Council refuses to have sufficient input in the attendant thought processes.", "pos": ["There is, of course, a very important point, it is the fact that we started the heading four, with its approach, but we do not know yet very well if we managed to solve the problem, in particular because the Council does not wish to take part sufficiently in the reflexion."], "neg": ["A Cuban architect was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for using two fake grenades to hijack a passenger plane from Cuba to Florida in April.", "A man is making a phone call.", "Reiterating the calls made by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000, what initiatives does the Presidency of the European Council propose to take with a view to playing a more active role so as to guarantee the full and complete application of the UN peace plan?", "Unfortunately, the ultimate objective of a European Constitution would be precisely the opposite, and so, of course, we cannot vote for it.", "Police believe Wilson then shot Jennie Mae Robinson once in the head before turning the gun on herself."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The European Council will also discuss the state of progress of the accession negotiations and hence of the enlargement.", "pos": ["The European Council will discuss also of the state of progress of accession negotiations, and therefore, of enlargement."], "neg": ["Mr McDonnell wants to establish if the Italian business followed Grant Thornton's audit procedures.", "Someone is rinsing a large beef steak at the kitchen sink.", "Mr President, I voted for the García-Margallo y Marfil report, which concerns the taxation of services provided by electronic means.", "Their differences on energy and Medicare have become so pointed other members say it is embarrassing to the party.", "Each week 138 million shoppers visit Wal-Mart's 4,750 stores."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I stress this point because the market cannot regulate everything, which is why competition is not completely unrestricted, nor should it be.", "pos": ["I stress this point because the market cannot regulate everything and that, in this context, it is not or cannot be competitive without borders."], "neg": ["I stress this because the market cannot solve all and that, accordingly, there is not and cannot have competition without limits.", "The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX gave up 11.91 points, or 1.19 percent, at 986.60.", "Two couple are talking with each other.", "When fully operational, the facility is expected to employ up to 1,000 people.", "A dog is eating a doll."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "One could indeed wish for more and for improvement, but I honestly believe that we have made a good start.", "pos": ["We can, in fact, want more and better, but I believe that it is a good start."], "neg": ["The company has publicly identified Linux as one of its biggest competitive threats.", "I find it rather odd that people are already trying to tie the Commission's hands in relation to the proposal for a directive, while at the same calling on it to present a Green Paper on the current situation with regard to optional and supplementary health insurance schemes.", "I think it is exemplary that France is resolved to take this step.", "A woman is reading a lifestyle magazine.", "\"It's very difficult to do large syndicated loans in Japan,\" where there is a lack of expertise, says one banker."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market rightly insists on no upper limit and a minimum of no less than 7%.", "pos": ["It is rightly that the Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens' Rights persists in the rejection of a ceiling and in the maintenance of a minimum rate which cannot be below 7%."], "neg": ["It is just that the Committee on legal Affairs of the refusal of a ceiling and in the maintenance of a minimum rate which cannot be 7%.", "The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> shed 2.38 points, or 0.24 percent, at 995.10.", "He then stabbed two passersby as he fled along a promenade by the Mediterranean Sea.", "By state law, 911 calls are not public information and were not released.", "A man is dancing on the road."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We have started to exchange ideas on this question, from which it has emerged that all the Member States want to maintain this ceiling after enlargement.", "pos": ["We have started to have discussions on this issue, which show that all the Member States want to keep the ceiling after enlargement."], "neg": ["Women are dancing.", "Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar devoted to equal opportunities reinforces the integrated approach to equality through gender mainstreaming and through specific guidelines.", "In it, he has recognised the quality of potential candidates for membership in the countries participating in the stabilisation and association process.", "I should like to thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, Mr Brok, for his clear, comprehensive report.", "Other businesses are volunteering to put the alerts on their electronic signs and billboards."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We have started to exchange ideas on this question, from which it has emerged that all the Member States want to maintain this ceiling after enlargement.", "pos": ["We have started to have trade on this issue, where it appears that all Member States wish to maintain this ceiling after enlargement."], "neg": ["Some 95 million Americans -- half of all households -- invest in mutual funds.", "Kollar-Kotelly has scheduled another antitrust settlement compliance hearing for January.", "He will stand trial on 8 January on charges of having attended a meeting of the Tunisian opposition in France, which he denies.", "Finally, in a word, the fourth pillar dedicated to equal opportunities reinforces the integrated approach to equality by the mainstreaming and by specific guidelines.", "The only instance in which no tax is levied is when the supplier is in a non-EU country and the recipient is in a Member State of the EU."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I wonder if the Commissioner has planned any steps in this respect to demonstrate that we really do consider Kostunica to be the only lawfully elected representative of the Serbian people, and the only partner with whom the European Union is involved as from today.", "pos": ["I wonder whether the Commissioner already provides steps which will make it possible to show that we regard Kostunica as the legally elected representative of the Serbian people and as a partner with whom the European Union will now have to deal with."], "neg": ["I wonder if the Commissioner, for the steps which they show that we consider and as the representative of the Serbian people and as the partner with which the European Union will have to deal with.", "He will stand trial on 8 January on charges of having attended a meeting of the Tunisian opposition in France, which he denies.", "This is our priority fight in order to ensure that the affirmation of fundamental rights is put into practice in our political decisions.", "The workers accuse General Dynamics of \"reverse age discrimination\" because of a change in retirement benefits in 1997.", "The ADRs fell 10 cents to $28.95 at 10:06 a.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading today."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The other viewpoint illustrated by the rapporteur' s initial statement and shared by a number of members is to promote regulations and codes of conduct which are needed in order to establish among insurers ways of organising costs on a mutual basis providing everybody with guaranteed access to high-quality care and to counter the risk of discriminatory practices developing together with risk and client selection.", "pos": ["The other point of view, illustrated by the rapporteur's original and shared by many colleagues, is to promote the rules and codes of conduct needed to build, between insurers, forms of degree of costs guaranteeing all the supply of good quality care and to counter the risks of discriminatory practices and a risk selection and customers."], "neg": ["Symptoms include chronic diarrhoea, abdominal pain, weight loss and extreme tiredness.", "It must be the real brains of coordination of the network of national agencies which, in turn, will have to activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence on food safety at regional level.", "A woman is slicing a garlic.", "This rule can be applied equally to all recreational but dangerous drugs when no one but the person consuming the drug is likely to be affected.", "A man pushes another man into the ocean."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Unfortunately, the ultimate objective of a European Constitution would be precisely the opposite, and so, of course, we cannot vote for it.", "pos": ["Unfortunately the final objective of a European Constitution would be exactly the opposite course and we cannot approve it."], "neg": ["That made them heavily dependent on loans.", "Stocks dipped lower Tuesday as investors opted to cash in profits from Monday's big rally despite a trio of reports suggesting modest improvement in the economy.", "Oracle Corp's Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison didn't rule out sweetening the company's unsolicited offer to acquire rival PeopleSoft Inc.", "The letter bomb sent to Prodi exploded in his hands but he was unhurt.", "Mr. Bush did not discuss this when he issued a brief statement yesterday thanking the commission for its work, and saying, \"Our journey into space will go on.\""], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Thirdly, acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the individual countries and for the EU as a whole basically depend - and Denmark demonstrated this - on dismantling the social and democratic deficits of European policy.", "pos": ["Thirdly, the acceptance of enlargement and its positive prospects for the various countries and for the whole of the EU depend - the example of Denmark is here to show this - largely to the elimination of social and democratic deficits of European policy."], "neg": ["Thirdly: the approval of the enlargement and its positive prospects for the different countries and for the EU as a whole and - the example of Denmark is for us to the point - matters of the social and economic policy.", "The others were given copies of \"Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution\" and told to follow it.", "I find it rather odd that people are already trying to tie the Commission's hands in relation to the proposal for a directive, while at the same calling on it to present a Green Paper on the current situation with regard to optional and supplementary health insurance schemes.", "Lowe's, with about half as many stores, reported a 33 percent increase in third-quarter profit behind a 12 percent jump in same-store sales.", "Mr President, I voted for the García-Margallo y Marfil report on the taxation of electronic commerce."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Slovakia has not been condemned to the second division and it is logical that it should like to join together with the Czech Republic.", "pos": ["Slovakia is not doomed to remain in the second group, and it is logical that it wants to join the Union at the same time as the Czech Republic."], "neg": ["A man plays a trumpet.", "In a mixture of ancient Melanesian pagan and modern Christian ceremonies the people tried again to erase the misfortunes they believe have kept them poor since that long-ago meal.", "The crates are full of hardback copies of \"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.\"", "Mr Gayssot, Greek ships have sunk without warning, when there were no storms in the vicinity.", "The man is singing and playing the guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I should like to thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, Mr Brok, for his clear, comprehensive report.", "pos": ["I would like to thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, Mr Brok, for his clear and comprehensive report."], "neg": ["I thank the rapporteur for the Committee on foreign Affairs, Mr Brok, for his clear and comprehensive report.", "I thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mr Brok, on his clear and comprehensive report.", "I thank the rapporteur for the Committee for the foreign affairs, Mr Brok, for his clear and complete report/ratio.", "I thank the rapporteur for the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mr Brok, for his clear and comprehensive report.", "I thank the rapporteur of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mr Brok, for his clear and comprehensive report."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Lastly, and most controversially, the committee strongly called for the use of a fast-track procedure to implement this legislation.", "pos": ["Finally, and this is a most controversial issue, the Commission has called vigorously to use the fast-track procedure to implement this legislation."], "neg": ["\"The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives.\"", "More than 100 officers launched the London raids in the final phase of a two-year operation investigating a cocaine and money laundering ring.", "I wonder whether the police chief envisages already stages which will make it possible to show that we regard Kostunica as the legally elected representative of Serbian people and as the partner with whom the European Union will have henceforth to treat.", "On the other hand, we would like to be given a chance to prove to Europe that we are able to develop the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia on our own, by recognising the genuine principles of democracy.", "Without doubt, it was better to have no agreement at all than a poor one and it is true that, in this instance, the American proposal was a third-rate proposal, and one which was completely unacceptable to Europe."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, I voted for the García-Margallo y Marfil report on the taxation of electronic commerce.", "pos": ["Mr. President, I have voting in favour of the report García-Margallo there Marfil, which relates to the tax on the abundant services with electronic way."], "neg": ["Mr President, I voted in favour of the García-Margallo y Marfil report, which concerns the taxation of services provided by way.", "As there is still a lot of uncertainty, we must know what the scientific facts are and what action must be taken.", "A man drives a car.", "But I would like to say to the House this afternoon that we must not lose sight of the fact that the European Union spends only 1% of the GDP of the Member States and that the bulk of this money is administered in the Member States.", "Someone is playing piano."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Either we are in a club or we are out of it and it is particularly important that we accept this.", "pos": ["Either we part of the club, or we are not, and we must therefore we bow to this decision."], "neg": ["Either we are part of the club, we are not and we must, therefore, we have to comply with this.", "As a result, 24 players broke par in the first round.", "The man took a piece of pepperoni pizza out of the box.", "Kernan, who was O'Bannon's lieutenant governor, friend and political partner, was sworn in six hours after O'Bannon died Saturday.", "A woman is chopping broccoli."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "on the situation in Burma", "pos": ["On the situation in Burma."], "neg": ["I find it a little strange to now obliging the Commission to a motion for a resolution and to ask him at the same time to draw up a Green Paper on the current state of voluntary insurance and supplementary sickness insurance.", "There is, of course, a very important point is the fact that we started in category four, with its approach, but we do not yet know very well if we managed to resolve the issue, not least because the Council does not wish to participate sufficiently in the reflection.", "The euro has slipped nearly four percent since matching a record peak of around $1.1935 only last week and hitting an all-time high of 140.90 yen in late May.", "It seemed like an isolated incident,'' said graduate Ariel Dean of Washington, D.C.", "One could indeed wish for more and for improvement, but I honestly believe that we have made a good start."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The other viewpoint illustrated by the rapporteur' s initial statement and shared by a number of members is to promote regulations and codes of conduct which are needed in order to establish among insurers ways of organising costs on a mutual basis providing everybody with guaranteed access to high-quality care and to counter the risk of discriminatory practices developing together with risk and client selection.", "pos": ["The other point of view, illustrated by the example of the original rapporteur and shared by many colleagues, is to promote the regulations and codes of conduct needed to create, between insurers, the forms of mutual costs guaranteeing to all the provision of high-quality care and to counter the risk of seeing develop discriminatory practices and a risk selection and customers."], "neg": ["A girl is riding a scooter.", "A man is playing piano.", "Chief financial officer Andy Bryant has said that hike had a greater affect volume than officials expected.", "Mr President, the Commission' s attitude to the right of access to documents may be seen from the internal handbook sent on 11 October to employees of the Commission to tell them how to deal with requests from MEPs for access to documents.", "That is what we have done: we have avoided a budgetary crisis by going to Article 272; the financial perspective has been maintained, even though we have used the flexibility instrument."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is a matter of the utmost importance and yet has curiously attracted very little public attention.", "pos": ["The task, which is important, however, did not arouse great interest on the part of the public yet."], "neg": ["The task, which is however capital, did not arouse an lively interest on behalf of the public yet.", "The task, which is nevertheless capital, has not yet aroused great interest on the part of the public.", "The meat, poultry, butter, cheese and nuts were being stored by more than 100 wholesalers in Chicago.", "Lastly, and most controversially, the committee strongly called for the use of a fast-track procedure to implement this legislation.", "A man is pouring pasta onto a plate."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The lesson for this Parliament this morning must be that we have to conclude that maritime laws throughout the world are in a state of shambles and we have to begin the process of putting them right.", "pos": ["The lesson must retain this House in its debate this morning is that we are forced to conclude that the maritime laws are in the world, in a state of mess, and that we must get down to the task of up."], "neg": ["Shares of Allergan were up 14 cents at $78.40 in late trading on the New York Stock Exchange.", "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "A man is playing a harp.", "Dealers said the euro's downward momentum may pick up speed should it break below $1.15.", "The task, which is essential, has not yet been a keen interest on the part of the public."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That is a shameful state of affairs when we consider that the EU itself is a champion of modernised business practice.", "pos": ["It is a shame when it is thought that the European Union is posed as a champion modernization of the economic life!"], "neg": ["This is a disgrace when we think that the European Union is a champion of the modernisation of economic life.", "It is a shame when they believe that the European Union presents itself as the champion of the modernisation of the life!", "A monkey is riding a bus.", "A man is shooting a gun.", "Do you think that the Austrian model, i.e. bilateral majority resolutions, will be used in future as a way of passing resolutions which bypass the European institutions and of forming a new institution or a new group in order to circumvent unanimity in the Council?"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "And I am telling you loud and clear: Kostunica must be given his chance here and I therefore hope that he will give amnesty in the next couple of weeks or months, but meanwhile, I do want the introduction of those two new budget lines, democratisation and reconstruction, to be accompanied by political conditions, both from a political and budgetary perspective.", "pos": ["And I say this very clearly: it is necessary to give its chance to Kostunica and I hope that it will take time to a clear in the course of the coming weeks or months; but in the meantime, I hope, however, that, in terms of policy and in terms of the budget, the political conditions are the introduction of these two new budget lines, namely the and reconstruction."], "neg": ["A man runs with a truck.", "The man is aiming a gun.", "A person is hitchhiking on a road.", "\"The average track error for the five-day (forecast) is 323 nautical miles.", "I think it is exemplary that France is resolved to take that step."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On the other hand, we would like to be given a chance to prove to Europe that we are able to develop the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia on our own, by recognising the genuine principles of democracy.", "pos": ["Furthermore, we would have a chance to demonstrate to Europe that we are in a position to develop the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro, in Yugoslavia, recognising the real democratic principles."], "neg": ["In addition, we would like to have a chance to prove to the Europe that we are in a position to alone the cause of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia, while recognizing the principles.", "A man is playing a flute.", "Spain has developed in a way the positive extremely difficult neighbourhood that has always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "A man is putting cheese on a tortilla.", "Mr President, the Commission' s attitude to the right of access to documents may be seen from the internal handbook sent on 11 October to employees of the Commission to tell them how to deal with requests from MEPs for access to documents."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "If we want to help Indonesia we must act now with money and deeds, not merely words.", "pos": ["If we want to help Indonesia, we must intervene with money and concrete actions, and not only with words."], "neg": ["The only instance in which no tax is levied is when the supplier is in a non-EU country and the recipient is in a Member State of the EU.", "A small kitten is playing a ball.", "In Nigeria, the indigenous people all-ijaw accused Chevron to incite violence against them and to pay Nigerian soldiers to draw on the demonstrators in the warri naval base.", "The task, which is capital, has not yet been a lively interest on the part of the public.", "A cat is rubbing against a baby."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "There is, of course, one crucial event, namely that a start has been made with category four and with looking at ways how we will deal with it, but it is not yet entirely clear whether we have managed to resolve this, partly because the Council refuses to have sufficient input in the attendant thought processes.", "pos": ["There is, of course, a very important point, is the fact that we have initiated within category four, with his approach, but we do not yet know very well if we managed to solve the problem, not least because the Council does not wish to participate enough food for thought."], "neg": ["A person is kicking a soccer ball back and forth between his feet.", "She appeared in federal court Wednesday, but did not enter a plea.", "A man is slam dunking a ball.", "A clown is singing and people are dancing.", "A man is making a bed."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Slovakia has not been condemned to the second division and it is logical that it should like to join together with the Czech Republic.", "pos": ["Slovakia is not condemned to remain in the second group and it is logical that she wants to adhere to the Union at the same time as the Czech Republic."], "neg": ["Let us organise ourselves in fifteen in order to be able to welcome in the countries that are knocking at our door.", "She took the highly unusual step of skipping cabinet to attend a meeting with the presidents of Rwanda and Uganda.", "The situation is worse when it comes to women's distant countries which have accepted this work by necessity and who have no alternative to continue supporting themselves to their vital needs.", "Besides battling its sales slump, Siebel also has been sparring with some investors upset about huge stock option windfalls company managers have pocketed.", "The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was up 7.42 points, or 0.45 percent, at 1,653.44."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Question No 6 by (H-0886/00):", "pos": ["question nº 6 of (H-0886/00):"], "neg": ["In 1996, the European Parliament has voted in favour of a ban on the use of meat and bone meal in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only we had listened to.", "The man is using a sledghammer to break the concrete block that is on the other man.", "A woman is talking on a telephone.", "The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC lost 2 points, or 0.18 percent, to 1,649.", "A man severs the toe of an empty leather boot using a sword."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Worst of all, I believe, is having to issue a warning that a court judgment in their favour may just be a set of comforting words and make no real difference in their lives.", "pos": ["In my view, there is nothing worse than having to warn people that a judgment in their favour could only be a series of reassuring words and have no practical effect on their existence."], "neg": ["In my view, however, there is nothing worse than having to warn people that a ruling in their favour could not have been a series of words réconfortants and do not have any consequences concrete on their existence.", "In my view, there is, however, nothing worse than to have to warn the people a ruling in their favour could be a series of reassuring words and have no concrete result on their existence.", "A man rides a horse.", "The House has passed prescription-drug legislation in the last two sessions, but the Senate has failed to do so.", "The updated products include Pylon Pro, Pylon Conduit, Pylon Anywhere, and Pylon Application Server."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Firstly, simplification and clarification of the Treaties.", "pos": ["Firstly, that of a simplification and clarification of the Treaties."], "neg": ["A man ties a noose.", "Jodie Singer, a sixth-grader from Washington, D.C., anxiously awaited her turn at the microphone.", "A boy is playing in the mud.", "\"In so many different ways, the artistry of black musicians has conveyed the experience of black Americans throughout our history,\" Bush said.", "A toy train is striking a toy car."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Whilst employment may be the European Union' s priority policy, fisheries, as another economic sector, cannot remain on the sidelines.", "pos": ["If employment is the political priority of the Union, fishing, as an economic sector, cannot remain on the sidelines."], "neg": ["If the employment is the policy of the Union, the Community, as a sector, cannot remain on the sidelines.", "U.S. and European leaders pledged on Wednesday to work together to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons, presenting a united front after months of bitter acrimony over Iraq.", "A man is doing push ups.", "This is a vague area, and it is possible that more restrictive provisions may also remain in force, and this is one point in respect of which we have tabled amendments.", "A woman shoots a shotgun."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We have heard that the previous Council Presidency first restructured and then scrapped the Ministry for Equality.", "pos": ["We have heard that the previous presidency has first restructured and then dismantled the Ministry of equal opportunities."], "neg": ["We have heard that the first and then the inequality of opportunity.", "The two Democrats on the five-member FCC held a news conference to sway opinion against Powell and the panel's two other Republicans.", "The girls danced on the stage.", "A man removes a couple of toaster scrambles from a plastic packet.", "As requested by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000, that these initiatives the presidency of the European Council is going to take to play a more active role in order to ensure the full implementation of the UN peace plan?"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "As there is still a lot of uncertainty, we must know what the scientific facts are and what action must be taken.", "pos": ["It is necessary to know today, since we are still in the uncertainty, which are the scientific, what are the measures to take."], "neg": ["A man is frying a tortilla.", "Things deteriorate when it is a question of women from countries which have accepted this work and who have no other possibility to continue to provide their basic needs.", "Colgate shares closed Monday at $56.30 on the New York Stock Exchange.", "Tatar was being held without bail in Armstrong County Prison today.", "One month ago in the same poll, Katz was leading 46 to 40 percent."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I stress this point because the market cannot regulate everything, which is why competition is not completely unrestricted, nor should it be.", "pos": ["I insist on this point because the market cannot regulate everything and that, in this perspective, there is neither can be no competition without limits."], "neg": ["I stress this because the market cannot solve all and that, accordingly, there is not and cannot have competition without limits.", "Women models are walking down a catwalk.", "A man is peeling a potato.", "\"Unlike many early-stage Internet firms, Google is believed to be profitable.", "On the contrary, the influence of the national democracies is being reduced by the further restriction of the right of veto and by the fact that the European Parliament is being given more power."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "They will keep the pressure on, and they are strengthening their position with the revenue they are generating from delivering mail above 150 grams.", "pos": ["They will continue to put the pressure. The money that they gain with the distribution beyond the limit of the 150 grams makes it possible them to reinforce their position."], "neg": ["A man dives into a swimming pool.", "the soccer player kicked the ball side to side between his legs.", "A man is writing in a book.", "Another said its members would continue to call the more than 50 million phone numbers on the Federal Trade Commission's list.", "This led to the recovery of the 270-kilogram Cancuen altar, announced on Wednesday by the Vanderbilt University in Nashville and the National Geographic Society."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I also voted against a text which calls for the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the eventual Treaty of Nice.", "pos": ["I also voted against a text which calls for the integration of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the future Treaty which will be adopted at Nice."], "neg": ["I find a little strange to want as of now forcing the Commission with a motion for resolutions and to ask him in the same time to establish one Green Paper on the current state of the voluntary insurances and the complementary health insurances.", "On the other hand, we would like to be given a chance to prove to Europe that we are able to develop the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia on our own, by recognising the genuine principles of democracy.", "The bodies of some of the dead, pulled out from under the train, were laid out beside the tracks while emergency services brought in wooden coffins.", "My party serious reservations about the regulation of the sale of consumption by means of Community legislation, as it has reservations about the concept of mutual recognition of standards.", "A monkey is riding a bus."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "If we define a clear, binding framework for the Member States, then there should be a longer evaluation period for the various support systems required to satisfy these requirements.", "pos": ["If we define a clear and binding framework for the Member States, the various systems to meet these demands should have a longer period of put to the test."], "neg": ["A woman is slicing a garlic.", "A man performs on a stage.", "A man is eating a pizza.", "Someone is cleaning a animal.", "The man is aiming a gun."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to say a few words on the joint resolution, which will, of course, be passed.", "pos": ["Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to speak on the joint resolution that we shall, of course, be voting."], "neg": ["Mr. President, my honourable Members, I would like to intervene on the joint resolution that obviously we will vote.", "Mr President, my dear colleagues, I would like to intervene on the common resolution which of course we will.", "Mr President, I voted for the García-Margallo y Marfil report on the taxation of electronic commerce.", "A man is walking down a sidewalk.", "A man is frying a tortilla."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Question No 6 by (H-0886/00):", "pos": ["Question 6 (H-0886 / 00):"], "neg": ["This is no time for the faint-hearted.", "My party expresses serious reservations about the regulation of the sale of consumer products by means of Community legislation, as it makes reservations about the concept of the mutual recognition of standards.", "However, I would like to say to the House this afternoon that we should not lose sight of the fact that the European Union spends only 1% of GDP of the Member States and that most of this money is managed in the Member States.", "Thank you very much, Commissioner.", "A man plays the guitar and sings."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is our priority fight in order to ensure that the affirmation of fundamental rights is put into practice in our political decisions.", "pos": ["That is our fight priority for the affirmation of fundamental rights is implemented in political choices."], "neg": ["Finally, I welcome the idea that we should review the implementation of the programme annually.", "Additionally, the h2210’s cradle has room to charge a second battery.", "A woman slices a fish.", "I would also have liked to see the report of the Court of Auditors was a little more user-friendly and that he had tabled a number of clear recommendations, for example, one or two recommendations by chapter.", "Perry has since called two special legislative sessions to try force the redistricting plan through."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Council of Europe, along with the Court of Human Rights, has a wealth of experience of such forms of supervision, and we can build on these.", "pos": ["As the Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe has also a solid experience regarding such forms of control; we can take to basis."], "neg": ["Just like the Court of the human rights, the Council of Europe has to him also a solid experiment with regard to such forms of control. We can take it for base.", "Just as the Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe also has a solid experience in terms of such forms of control. We can to base.", "One could indeed wish for more and for improvement, but I honestly believe that we have made a good start.", "A man is putting papers on a dish.", "A man is cutting a snake to cook."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Reiterating the calls made by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000, what initiatives does the Presidency of the European Council propose to take with a view to playing a more active role so as to guarantee the full and complete application of the UN peace plan?", "pos": ["As the European Parliament called for in its resolution of 16 March 2000, they initiatives the European Council Presidency intend to take to play a more active role in order to ensure the full implementation of the UN peace plan?"], "neg": ["Congratulations on being named Time magazine's Person of the Year.", "A woman is slicing an onion.", "The report also claims that there will be up to 9.3 million visitors to hot spots this year, up again from the meagre 2.5 million in 2002.", "Someone is putting rice in a pan.", "Relief is in sight for Texans saddled with skyrocketing homeowners insurance premiums."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "There is, of course, one crucial event, namely that a start has been made with category four and with looking at ways how we will deal with it, but it is not yet entirely clear whether we have managed to resolve this, partly because the Council refuses to have sufficient input in the attendant thought processes.", "pos": ["There is, of course, a very important point is the fact that we have begun category four, with his approach, but we do not yet know very well if we managed to solve the problem, not least because the Council does not wish to participate in the discussion."], "neg": ["However, the Saudi interior minister, Prince Nayef, denied the reports.", "A man is kick boxing with a trainer.", "I would also have liked the report of the Court of Auditors was a little more user-friendly and that it had submitted some clear recommendations - for example, one or two recommendations per chapter.", "Mr President, I shall concentrate in my speech on the report by Mrs Lalumière, report that I find well and clearly.", "I know that in France, the principle of the whole and that it does not seem to be the best way to combat this phenomenon."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "If we want to help Indonesia we must act now with money and deeds, not merely words.", "pos": ["If we want to help Indonesia, we must act now with money and concrete action, and not only with words."], "neg": ["In Nigeria, the indigenous people all ijaw Chevron have accused of encouraging the violence against them and to go up to pay Nigerian soldiers to draw on the demonstrators at the naval base of Warri.", "A man is playing a guitar.", "This is unacceptable,\" said Patrick Pelloux, the president of France's Association of Emergency Doctors.", "Another big gainer was Rambus Inc. (nasdaq: RMBS - news - people), which shot 32 percent higher.", "On my own behalf and on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries, I would ask you, Madam President, to send Parliament' s condolences to the families of the victims and to the local authorities in both Brittany and in Marín, Galicia, from where the majority of the victims came."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Firstly, simplification and clarification of the Treaties.", "pos": ["Firstly, the simplification and clarification of the Treaties."], "neg": ["I urge the French Presidency to should do everything in its power to bridge the gap particularly destructive.", "A man is opening a package containing headphones.", "The only instance in which no tax is levied is when the supplier is in a non-EU country and the recipient is in a Member State of the EU.", "Another person, a man from Fort Worth, Texas, also was missing.", "If it's the Sunday night before Comdex, it must be time for yet another Bill Gates keynote."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Unfortunately, the ultimate objective of a European Constitution would be precisely the opposite, and so, of course, we cannot vote for it.", "pos": ["Unfortunately the ultimate goal of a European Constitution would be exactly the opposite and, of course, we cannot approve it."], "neg": ["A man is dancing.", "Others with such a status are Egypt, Israel, and Australia.", "Oracle chairman Larry Ellison has hinted that the company could yet again increase its offer for rival PeopleSoft.", "Britain included the accusation in a September 2002 dossier setting out the case for war in Iraq.", "The camp hosts summer religious retreats for children and other events year-round, according to its Web site."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Do you think that the Austrian model, i.e. bilateral majority resolutions, will be used in future as a way of passing resolutions which bypass the European institutions and of forming a new institution or a new group in order to circumvent unanimity in the Council?", "pos": ["Do you think the Austrian model '' - namely the bilateral majority decision-making - will in future an instrument to take decisions by ignoring the European institutions and to set up a new institution, or a new group, in order to get round the unanimity rule in the Council?"], "neg": ["Do you think that the model of the \"-\" - namely the majority - will be in the future as a means of taking in ignoring the European institutions and to a new institution, or a new Group, to be able to bypass the rule of unanimity in the Council?", "Above all, when a company or unipersonnelle a society relying less than 250 employees has a project, it must be possible to receive funding not only with a guarantee to 120%, but also on the simple basis of a good idea.", "Neither OLAF nor the Belgian prosecutors have specified if it was this system that was at the centre of the investigation.", "Just as the Court of human rights, the Council of Europe also has a solid experience in this regard such forms of control and we can take as a basis.", "Declarations must be followed by concrete steps to trace, freeze, seize and confiscate the proceeds of crime."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The labelling of beef that was agreed on, which is a minimum form of labelling and only came into force two and a half months ago, does not make it possible for the origin of animals to be adequately traced, and we were very slow to ban specified risk materials.", "pos": ["The labelling of beef which has been decided, which is a minimum labelling and which has only been in force for two and a half months ago, does not properly to trace the origin of animals and we have banned rather belatedly specified risk material."], "neg": ["Though the judge can reduce the punishment to life in prison without parole, experts say Virginia judges rarely take that opportunity.", "There is urgency and that is why we have decided to put this issue on the agenda.", "One woman hands volleyballs to another woman who serves them.", "Dotson told FBI agents that he shot Dennehy after the player tried to shoot him, according to the arrest warrant affidavit.", "The indictment said he attended important meetings to plan the attacks, recruited fellow bombers and coordinated the operation."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Do you think that the Austrian model, i.e. bilateral majority resolutions, will be used in future as a way of passing resolutions which bypass the European institutions and of forming a new institution or a new group in order to circumvent unanimity in the Council?", "pos": ["Do you believe that the 'Austrian model' - namely the taking of bilateral majority decisions - in the future will be an instrument for taking decisions ignoring the European institutions and to build a new institution, or a new group, to be able to circumvent the rule of unanimity in the Council?"], "neg": ["Do you think that the model of the \"-\" - namely the majority - will be in the future as a means of taking in ignoring the European institutions and to a new institution, or a new Group, to be able to bypass the rule of unanimity in the Council?", "The man rode his motorcycle down the highway.", "The governor is going to Jackson, where 13 people were killed.", "The man is playing the drums.", "In the last three weeks, progress has been made in three major areas."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Either we are in a club or we are out of it and it is particularly important that we accept this.", "pos": ["Either we belong to the club, or let us not be we and we thus should be folded with this decision."], "neg": ["Either we are part of the club, we are not and we must, therefore, we have to comply with this.", "The government did not identify the taikonauts -- a term coined from taikong, the Chinese word for space.", "Shortness was found twice as often in those with hearing loss.", "It must genuinely be a centre for coordinating the network of national agencies which, in turn, must activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence for food safety at the level of the individual regions.", "Also hurting was news General Motors GM.N was to issue $10 billion in debt, in part to plug a hole in its pension plan."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Reiterating the calls made by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000, what initiatives does the Presidency of the European Council propose to take with a view to playing a more active role so as to guarantee the full and complete application of the UN peace plan?", "pos": ["As the European Parliament has called for in its resolution of 16 March 2000, that they initiatives will the presidency of the European Council intend to take to play a more active role in order to ensure the full implementation of the UN peace plan?"], "neg": ["A woman is washing a bowl.", "Madam President, I would ask you, on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries and on my own behalf, to send a message of condolence from Parliament to the families of the victims and the local authorities of both Brittany Marín, that the city of Galicia, which are from most of the victims.", "A woman is swimming.", "Also, businesses throughout Utah are volunteering to display Amber alerts on their signs.", "The woman is riding a horse."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That is a shameful state of affairs when we consider that the EU itself is a champion of modernised business practice.", "pos": ["It is a disgrace when it is believed that the European Union has set itself up as a champion modernisation of economic life."], "neg": ["This is a disgrace when we think that the European Union is a champion of the modernisation of economic life.", "It is a shame when they believe that the European Union presents itself as the champion of the modernisation of the life!", "A man is adding water to pan.", "The Sunshine Group LTD represented the developers, The Related Companies and Apollo Real Estate Advisors LP, on the deal.", "A man is tying in the machine."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, I would like to focus in my speech on Mrs Lalumière' s report, which I think is clearly worded and well put together.", "pos": ["Mr President, in my speech I shall focus on the report by Mrs Lalumière report, which I think is well thought-out and clearly formulated."], "neg": ["Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to say a few words on the joint resolution, which will, of course, be passed.", "As the European Parliament has called for in its resolution of 16 March 2000, that they initiatives will the presidency of the European Council intend to take to play a more active role in order to ensure the full implementation of the UN peace plan?", "A woman is climbing a rock face.", "Dusty had battled kidney cancer for more than a year.", "The woman is measuring the other woman."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It must genuinely be a centre for coordinating the network of national agencies which, in turn, must activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence for food safety at the level of the individual regions.", "pos": ["It must be the true brain coordination of the network of national agencies, which in turn will activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence food safety at regional level."], "neg": ["I urge that to seize this motion, this invitation, this request of dialogue, to give further and to make sure that, together with this Assembly, these relics of a nationalist might be.", "Additionally, the h2210’s cradle has room to charge a second battery.", "A woman is putting on sun glasses.", "A man drills wood.", "After all, it is by no means certain that the proposed definition of equitable price is better than any other, because the various definitions that are currently in use in the Member States are all perfectly satisfactory."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I should also have liked the Court of Auditors' report to have been a little more user-friendly and to have provided a number of clear recommendations, for example one or two per chapter.", "pos": ["I would also that the report of the Court of Auditors was that it had some clear recommendations - for example, one or two recommendations by chapter."], "neg": ["A boy rode his bike on top of a metal fence.", "Above all, when a one-man company or a company with fewer than 250 employees has a project, it should not need to provide 120% loan guarantees in the form of land to receive financing; it should also be possible for it to be funded on the basis of a good idea.", "Madam President, I would ask you, on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries and in my own name, to send a message of condolence on the part of Parliament to the families of the victims and the local authorities of Brittany as Marín, city of Galicia, where originating from most of the victims.", "A man and woman dance.", "A man pours some cooking oil into a pot."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The resolution on Nice, voted today, does not reflect this.", "pos": ["The resolution on the Nice Summit, which has just been voted, do not reflect."], "neg": ["The resolution on the Nice Summit, which just does not.", "PeopleSoft will commit $863 million in cash and issue 52.6 million new shares, the companies said.", "Pataki praised Abraham's decision, and LIPA Chairman Richard Kessel said the cable should be kept in operation permanently.", "A man is playing the piano.", "As there is still a lot of uncertainty, we must know what the scientific facts are and what action must be taken."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "From the first discussions on this dossier, which were held at European level at the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission has given a commitment to the Member States to pursue a course of action designed to develop what we might call a European police culture, grounded in the highest standards of duty, respect for the rights and freedoms of our citizens and efficiency in the fight against crime.", "pos": ["Since the first thoughts on this issue, which took place at European level on the initiative of the European Parliament, the Commission committed itself in relation to the Member States to promote an action intended to develop what we could describe as a European Commissioner culture, based on the highest standards of ethics, respect for human rights and freedoms, and effectiveness in the fight against crime."], "neg": ["Two people are riding a motorcycle.", "A man is dicing an onion.", "A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that Congress can force the nation's public libraries to equip computers with anti-pornography filters.", "He was tracked to Atlanta where he was arrested on Tuesday night.", "Consumers still would have to get a descrambling security card from their cable operator to plug into the set."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On my own behalf and on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries, I would ask you, Madam President, to send Parliament' s condolences to the families of the victims and to the local authorities in both Brittany and in Marín, Galicia, from where the majority of the victims came.", "pos": ["Madam President, I ask you, on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries and on my own behalf, to send a message of condolence from Parliament to the families of the victims and the local authorities of both Brittany that Marín, city of Galicia, where are from most of the victims."], "neg": ["Six new Krispy Kreme stores were opened in the first quarter, bringing the total number of stores to 282.", "The Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market rightly insists on no upper limit and a minimum of no less than 7%.", "Former Indiana Rep. Frank McCloskey, 64, died Sunday in Bloomington after a battle with bladder cancer.", "The labelling of beef that was agreed on, which is a minimum form of labelling and only came into force two and a half months ago, does not make it possible for the origin of animals to be adequately traced, and we were very slow to ban specified risk materials.", "A person is playing a piano."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I stress this point because the market cannot regulate everything, which is why competition is not completely unrestricted, nor should it be.", "pos": ["I stress this because the market cannot solve all and that, in this sense, there is no cannot be competitive without limits."], "neg": ["I stress this because the market cannot solve all and that, accordingly, there is not and cannot have competition without limits.", "Spain has developed a remarkably positive the difficult neighbourhood which has always existed between Europe and North Africa and between Spain and Morocco.", "A man folds a tortilla.", "Excluding the charges, analysts, on average, expected a loss of 11 cents a share.", "It is an evolution of this type which I wish in the other States of the European Union."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Given this situation, there is an inescapable need for greater involvement and greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment.", "pos": ["Faced with these realities, the need for greater involvement and greater efficiency in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment is essential."], "neg": ["A group of people are sweeping water out of a house.", "The right of a government arbitrarily to set aside its own constitution is the defining characteristic of a tyranny.", "Stardust was designed to gather thousands of dust particles streaming from Wild 2.", "Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda.", "It happening in trial on 8 January. He is accused of having attended a meeting of Tunisian opponents in France, which he denies."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, we took a great deal of care over preparing the Karamanou report in the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs.", "pos": ["Mr President, the Committee on citizens' freedoms and rights, justice and internal Affairs has prepared with great care the Karamanou report."], "neg": ["The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX was down 0.04 points, or 0 percent, at 971.52.", "I also voted against a text which calls for the integration of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the future Treaty which will be adopted at Nice.", "The report forecasts there will be 71,079 hot spots worldwide this year, up from just 14,752 in 2002 and 1,214 in 2001.", "I wonder if the Commissioner has planned any steps in this respect to demonstrate that we really do consider Kostunica to be the only lawfully elected representative of the Serbian people, and the only partner with whom the European Union is involved as from today.", "Mr President, we know the position of the Commission on public access to documents in the internal manual, which was submitted on 11 October, the Commission's officials in order to explain how to handle applications by Members as regards access to documents."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "As long ago as 1996 the European Parliament came out in favour of a ban on the use of meat-and-bone meal throughout the European Union in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only.", "pos": ["In 1996, the European Parliament has voted in favour of a ban on the use of meat and bone meal in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only we had listened to."], "neg": ["In 1996, the European Parliament was in favour of a ban on the use of meat meal in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only we had listened to.", "In 1996, the European Parliament is in favour of a ban on the use in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only they had.", "A man is riding a motorcycle.", ". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united European continent.", "It must be the true brain coordination of the network of national agencies, which, in turn, must activate and coordinate a network of centres of excellence of food safety at regional level."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, we took a great deal of care over preparing the Karamanou report in the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs.", "pos": ["Mr President, the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and we are to retain any prepared very carefully the Karamanou report."], "neg": ["Worst of all, I believe, is having to issue a warning that a court judgment in their favour may just be a set of comforting words and make no real difference in their lives.", "Madam President, I would ask you, on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries and on my own behalf, to send a message of condolence from Parliament to the families of the victims and the local authorities of both Brittany and Marín, city of Galicia, which most of the victims.", "Its safe to assume the Senate is prepared to pass some form of a cap....The level of it is to be debated.", "Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda.", "That is a shameful state of affairs when we consider that the EU itself is a champion of modernised business practice."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The UK Labour members of the PES Group welcome the adoption of their contribution to the ongoing work of the IGC on reinforced cooperation, without endorsing every single detail.", "pos": ["The UK Labour Members of the PSE Group welcome the favourable reception reserved for the contribution they have made to the ongoing work of the IGC on reinforced cooperation, without endorsing totally at all the details of this."], "neg": [". (IN) the British Labor Members of group PSE are pleased with the favourable response reserved for the contribution which they made to the ongoing work of the IGC on the reinforced cooperation, without adhering completely to all the details of this one.", "(it) the British labour Members of the Group of the Party of European Socialists is very welcome to the contribution that they have continuous work of the IGC on the cooperation, without all the details of this.", "Also weighing on the market was news that General Motors GM.N planned to issue $10 billion in debt, in part to plug a hole in its pension plan.", "For this cooperation, for your support and for your kind welcome, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the French Presidency thank you.", "A woman is shooting off a gun."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Lastly, and most controversially, the committee strongly called for the use of a fast-track procedure to implement this legislation.", "pos": ["Finally, and this is a controversial issue, the Commission has called with force to use the fast-track procedure to implement this legislation."], "neg": ["Someone is folding a piece of paper.", "A man removes a couple of toaster scrambles from a plastic packet.", "A man is playing a wooden flute.", "(Applause)", "I would also have liked to see the report of the Court of Auditors a little more user-friendly and if he had presented a few clear recommendations - for example, one or two recommendations by chapter."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I find it rather odd that people are already trying to tie the Commission's hands in relation to the proposal for a directive, while at the same calling on it to present a Green Paper on the current situation with regard to optional and supplementary health insurance schemes.", "pos": ["I find it a little strange to try to now force the Commission to a motion for a resolution and ask him in a same time to establish a Green Paper on the current state of voluntary insurance and health insurance complementary."], "neg": ["I am a bit of him now to compel the Commission to a motion for a resolution and ask him in a time to establish a Green Paper on the current State of voluntary insurance and health insurance.", "The federal standard for ozone is 0.12 parts per million.", "(Applause)", "A woman opens a closet.", "A man is peeling shrimp."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "B5-0794/2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on the kidnap in Colombia of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerillas;", "pos": ["(B5-0794 / 2000 by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on the kidnapping of a Spanish sophistry in Colombia engaged in negotiations with the guerillas;"], "neg": ["(B5-0794 / 2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Linkohr, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists and the Group of the Party of European Socialists, from a Spanish in the negotiations with the;", "B5-0794 / 2000, by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on Colombia removal of a Spanish Jesuit engaged in negotiations with the guerrilla;", "Netgear prices the WGT634U Super Wireless Media Router, which will be available in the first quarter of 2004, at under $200.", "The girls danced on the stage.", "Do you think that the Austrian 'model' - the majority decisions to be taken in future bilateral - it will be an instrument to take decisions by ignoring the European institutions and to set up a new institution, or a new group, in order to get round the unanimity rule in the Council?"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "As long ago as 1996 the European Parliament came out in favour of a ban on the use of meat-and-bone meal throughout the European Union in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only.", "pos": ["Since 1996, the European Parliament decided in favour of a ban on the use of meat meal in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only we had been listened to."], "neg": ["In 1996, the European Parliament was in favour of a ban on the use of meat meal in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only we had listened to.", "In 1996, the European Parliament is in favour of a ban on the use in the European Union, in accordance with the precautionary principle - if only they had.", "There is an urgent need, following the recent attacks on the Greek minority in Himara, to promote democratisation measures and measures to strengthen institutions and respect for human rights in Albania.", "Barbini said the union may reach a compromise with the United States but it wants a system for labeling such foods, something the industry successfully fought here.", "A man is laying on the ground."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Finally, I welcome the idea that we should review the implementation of the programme annually.", "pos": ["Finally I welcome the idea of us to give an annual assessment of the implementation of the programme."], "neg": ["It is a disgrace when it is believed that the European Union has set itself up as a champion modernisation of economic life.", "Declarations must be followed by concrete steps to trace, freeze, seize and confiscate the proceeds of crime.", "\"I came to Washington basically to establish relationships and make sure we are getting more federal money,\" Schwarzenegger said after one meeting.", "Sobig.F spreads when unsuspecting computer users open file attachments in emails that contain such familiar headings as \"Thank You!,\" \"Re: Details\" or \"Re: That Movie.\"", "A man is kicking a soccer ball."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I wonder if the Commissioner has planned any steps in this respect to demonstrate that we really do consider Kostunica to be the only lawfully elected representative of the Serbian people, and the only partner with whom the European Union is involved as from today.", "pos": ["I wonder whether the Commissioner already provides for steps to show that we consider Kostunica as the legally elected representative of the Serbian people and as a partner with which the European Union will now have to deal with."], "neg": ["I wonder if the Commissioner, for the steps which they show that we consider and as the representative of the Serbian people and as the partner with which the European Union will have to deal with.", "Another big gainer was Rambus Inc. (nasdaq: RMBS - news - people), which shot 32 percent higher.", "A woman is slicing big pepper.", "Its safe to assume the Senate is prepared to pass some form of a cap....The level of it is to be debated.", "Still, revenues from the extra premiums would not be huge."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda.", "pos": ["By withdrawing our resolution, I nevertheless expresses the conviction that our Parliament would have done better its voice heard in devoting, in view of the Nice European Council, a specific and separate resolution to the issues so important and so difficult for the Intergovernmental Conference, rather than dealt with in the context of a single resolution including also all the other items on the agenda for the Council."], "neg": ["A pig is agitating a lion.", "In Feira, it has recognised the quality of potential candidates for accession to the countries participating in the stabilisation and association process.", "The network is also dropping its Friday night \"Dateline\" edition.", "We speak with one voice disgracieuse within the WTO.", "Republicans had pledged to complete a Medicare drug package by August, then extended it to Oct. 17."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union.", "pos": ["This is a development of the kind that I wish the other States of the European Union."], "neg": ["That made them heavily dependent on loans.", "A woman is shooting a gun.", "A woman is adding some mushrooms and liquid to a pot.", "\"It appears from our initial report that this was a textbook landing considering the circumstances,\" Burke said.", "It is gratifying that Parliament has succeeded in producing a large majority in favour of more openness."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I think that France has set an excellent example by finally deciding to take this step.", "pos": ["I think it is exemplary that France is resolved to take this step."], "neg": ["Frankel said Peace Rules will run in the Preakness Stakes on May 17.", "An animal is walking.", "A dog is catching a fish in a river.", "A man is hitting a boy with flower vase.", "It is a shame when it is thought that the European Union is posed as a champion modernization of the economic life!"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "On my own behalf and on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries, I would ask you, Madam President, to send Parliament' s condolences to the families of the victims and to the local authorities in both Brittany and in Marín, Galicia, from where the majority of the victims came.", "pos": ["Madam President, I ask you, on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries and on my own behalf, to send a message of condolence from Parliament to the families of the victims and to the local authorities of both Brittany and of Marín, city of Galicia, which is from the majority of the victims."], "neg": ["The House had also fought, however, for the reduction of the funds available for innovative measures to be offset by means of resources from the flexibility instrument, a demand which is recorded in a declaration on the financial perspective in the Interinstitutional Agreement.", "BAT also said Antonio Monteiro de Castro, director for Latin America and the Caribbean, would become chief operating officer on January 1, 2004.", "The world's first portal potty was soon to be rolled out at summer festivals in Great Britain.", "Someone is slicing a onion.", "A woman is pouring egg into a frying pan."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "These objectives, the main one and the secondary ones, will be the touchstone by which the concrete proposals submitted by the Commission must be judged.", "pos": ["These objectives, the primary objective and the secondary objectives, will represent the stone of hitting enabling us to judge the concrete proposals presented by the Commission."], "neg": ["These objectives, the secondary primary objective and objectives, will represent the stone of key enabling us to consider the concrete proposals presented by the Commission.", "These objectives, the secondary objective and objectives, will represent the touchstone of enabling us to consider the specific proposals presented by the Commission.", "Women are talking.", "Sources within the racing industry have told the Daily Bulletin that Fontana will get a second NASCAR race on Labor Day weekend starting next season.", "All those who work currently out a job in social conditions."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "- My party has serious reservations about Community law applying to the sale of consumer products, as against applying the concept of mutual recognition of standards.", "pos": ["My party issues serious reservations in connection with the regulation of the sales of products of consumption by the means of the community legislation, just like it issues reserves in connection with the concept of mutual recognition of the standards."], "neg": ["The boy fired once into a wall and sprayed the room with fire extinguishers, making it hard to see, the chief said.", "A development which made highly dependent on capital borrowed.", "Former model Lady McCartney lost a leg in a road accident in 1993 and is understood to have steel plates fitted in her hips which would make natural childbirth difficult.", "A man and a woman are walking in the woods.", "The U.S. women, who are defending champions, will play on Sept. 25 in Philadelphia and conclude group competition on Sept. 28 in Columbus, Ohio."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I think that France has set an excellent example by finally deciding to take this step.", "pos": ["I find that France exemplary committed itself to take this step."], "neg": ["One woman hands volleyballs to another woman who serves them.", "It is unlikely that the planned protection of the universal provision of services by means of a compensatory fund, as a result of which private profits are ploughed back into public services, will last.", "Mr President, we know the position of the Commission on public access to documents in the internal manual, which was submitted on 11 October, the Commission's officials in order to explain how to handle applications by Members as regards access to documents.", "A man is singing on stage.", "It was the best advance since Oct. 1, when the index gained 22.25."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "There is, of course, one crucial event, namely that a start has been made with category four and with looking at ways how we will deal with it, but it is not yet entirely clear whether we have managed to resolve this, partly because the Council refuses to have sufficient input in the attendant thought processes.", "pos": ["It is, of course, a very important point, it is the fact that we have the section four, with its approach, but we do not yet know very well if we managed to solve the problem, in particular because the Council does not wish to participate enough."], "neg": ["A cat is eating a slice of watermelon.", "A little girl is playing a grand piano on stage.", "That was changed in the face of criticism, especially from Ireland and France, and a different spin has now been put on it by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer: it is now being portrayed as a user charge for all, including British lorry drivers.", "The sales leave Mr. Turner with about 45 million shares in AOL.", "On the other hand, we would like to be given a chance to prove to Europe that we are able to develop the constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia on our own, by recognising the genuine principles of democracy."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "And I am telling you loud and clear: Kostunica must be given his chance here and I therefore hope that he will give amnesty in the next couple of weeks or months, but meanwhile, I do want the introduction of those two new budget lines, democratisation and reconstruction, to be accompanied by political conditions, both from a political and budgetary perspective.", "pos": ["And let me make it very clear: it is necessary to give its chance Kostunica, and I therefore hope that it will ensure an amnesty in the weeks and months ahead; but in the meantime, I wish, however, that, politically, and the budgetary level, the political conditions be coupled with the introduction of these two new budgetary lines, namely democratisation and reconstruction."], "neg": ["A man is rapidly lifting small weights.", "We can indeed wish more and better, but I quite honestly believe that it is a good start.", "A woman is cutting a tomatoe.", "A boat sails along the water.", "Thirty-four of the men have been arrested and the others are being sought, US Attorney Daniel Bogden said yesterday."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market rightly insists on no upper limit and a minimum of no less than 7%.", "pos": ["It is rightly that the Legal Committee persists in the refusal of a ceiling and the maintenance of a minimum rate which cannot be lower than 7%."], "neg": ["It is just that the Committee on legal Affairs of the refusal of a ceiling and in the maintenance of a minimum rate which cannot be 7%.", "Shares in EDS closed on Thursday at $18.51, a gain of 6 cents.", "The tech-laden Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC shed 8 points, or 0.45 percent, to 1,645.", "Ms Lafferty's lawyer, Thomas Ezzell, told a Kentucky newspaper: \"My understanding of this is that there is a lower percentage of successful impregnations with frozen.", "A woman is peeling a potato."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, I would like to focus in my speech on Mrs Lalumière' s report, which I think is clearly worded and well put together.", "pos": ["Mr. President, I will concentrate in my intervention on the report/ratio of Mrs. Lalumière, report/ratio which I find formulated well conceived and clearly."], "neg": ["Talabani told him Iraqi leaders would \"need U.N. assistance and advice in implementing the new decisions which have been taken\" on organising an interim Iraqi government by June.", "Three men are dancing.", "The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX gave up 11.91 points, or 1.19 percent, at 986.60.", "Firstly, the simplification and clarification of the Treaties.", "A man and a woman are kissing each other."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I think that France has set an excellent example by finally deciding to take this step.", "pos": ["I find exemplary that France determined itself to cross this step."], "neg": ["Question No 6 by (H-0886/00):", "The lesson for us within this House in its debate this morning is that we are forced to conclude that the laws at sea are, in the world, in a state of chaos, and that we must get down to work to bring order.", "I would urge the French Presidency to do their utmost to overcome this divide, because it is extremely destructive.", "A man is breaking pots.", "Part of the accord was the implementation of a special health council that would monitor health spending and progress in reforming the health system."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The French Presidency thanks you, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for this cooperation, for your support and also for the warm reception you have given us.", "pos": ["For this cooperation, for your support and also for your warm welcome, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen of the European Parliament, the French Presidency thank you."], "neg": ["Knowledge of foreign languages is accepted as a necessary precursor to mobility.", "A person is slicing onions.", "A man is playing a piano.", "Both devices implement the v1.2 standard's eSCO facility to provide the basis for new cordless telephony applications.", "A man is dancing."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The very worst situation is when the women concerned also come from distant countries, having taken the work on out of desperation because they have no other way of continuing to provide for themselves.", "pos": ["The situation is worsening, when it comes to women distant countries who have accepted this work by necessity and which have no alternative to continue to meet their basic needs."], "neg": ["The situation is worse when it comes to women's distant countries which have accepted this work by necessity and who have no alternative to continue supporting themselves to their vital needs.", "Things deteriorate when it is a question of women from countries which have accepted this work and who have no other possibility to continue to provide their basic needs.", "Firstly, that of a simplification of the Treaties.", "Someone is putting rice in a pan.", "A Woman is eating."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The debate is closed.", "pos": ["In the debate is closed."], "neg": ["A man is playing guitar.", "I call on Prague to respond to this signal, this challenge, this plea for dialogue, to grant our request and to ensure, together with our House, that this legacy of a nationalist era can be consigned to the past.", "The army said the raid, which comes just days after Israeli troops shot and killed Abdullah Kawasme, the Hamas leader in the city, targeted militants in Hamas.", "People who once thought their blood pressure was fine actually may be well on their way to hypertension under new U.S. guidelines published on Wednesday.", "We need to know today, since we are always in uncertainty, what are the scientific data, what measures are to be taken."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market rightly insists on no upper limit and a minimum of no less than 7%.", "pos": ["It is right that the Committee on Legal Affairs continues in the refusal of a ceiling and the maintenance of a minimum rate which cannot be less than 7%."], "neg": ["It is just that the Committee on legal Affairs of the refusal of a ceiling and in the maintenance of a minimum rate which cannot be 7%.", "A man is dancing.", "House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., says he is sensitive to civil liberties complaints.", "The two Democrats on the five-member FCC panel held a news conference to sway opinion against Powell.", "Nevertheless, I would like to say to the House this afternoon that we must not lose sight of the fact that the European Union spends only 1% of the GDP of the Member States and that the bulk of this money is managed in the Member States."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "(The sitting was suspended at 2.06 p.m. and resumed at 3 p.m.)", "pos": ["(The sitting was suspended at 14h06 p.m. and resumed at 3 p.m.)"], "neg": ["(the sitting was suspended at, is resumed at 3 p.m.)", "This is our struggle for priority that the affirmation of fundamental rights to be implemented in political choices.", "Police used pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse a downtown march and rally last night by activists protesting an annual police intelligence-training seminar.", "In the debate is closed.", "Just as the European Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe has also considerable experience with regard to these forms of control; we can take as a basis."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "There is an urgent need, following the recent attacks on the Greek minority in Himara, to promote democratisation measures and measures to strengthen institutions and respect for human rights in Albania.", "pos": ["The recent incidents against the Greek minority of Himara make more imperative the need to promote democratisation measures, of institution building and respect for the rights of the man in Albania."], "neg": ["The Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market rightly insists on no upper limit and a minimum of no less than 7%.", "We don't need a little bitty tax relief plan.", "The men are performing on stage.", "Someone is pouring tomato sauce into a pot of meat.", "Bush plans to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the new Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, in the Jordanian port of Aqaba on Wednesday."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The UK Labour members of the PES Group welcome the adoption of their contribution to the ongoing work of the IGC on reinforced cooperation, without endorsing every single detail.", "pos": ["The UK Labour Members of the PSE Group welcome the favourable response given to the contribution they have made to the continuing work of the IGC on closer cooperation, without adhering fully to all the details of this."], "neg": [". (IN) the British Labor Members of group PSE are pleased with the favourable response reserved for the contribution which they made to the ongoing work of the IGC on the reinforced cooperation, without adhering completely to all the details of this one.", "(it) the British labour Members of the Group of the Party of European Socialists is very welcome to the contribution that they have continuous work of the IGC on the cooperation, without all the details of this.", "A person is playing a piano keyboard.", "Klarman was arrested by FBI agents in the Hamptons, an exclusive summer resort enclave east of New York City.", "It happening in trial on 8 January. he is accused of taking part in a meeting of Tunisian opponents in France, what to do deny it."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, I voted for the García-Margallo y Marfil report on the taxation of electronic commerce.", "pos": ["Mr President, I voted in favour of the García-Margallo y Marfil report, which concerns the taxation of services provided by electronic means."], "neg": ["Mr President, I voted in favour of the García-Margallo y Marfil report, which concerns the taxation of services provided by way.", "You do not even intend to incorporate it into the Treaty, evidence indeed that this text, this exercise was always destined to be laid aside.", "A dog is eating a doll.", "(B5-0794 / 2000 by Mr Medina Ortega, Mr Linkohr and Mr Fava, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, on the kidnapping of a Spanish sophistry in Colombia engaged in negotiations with the guerillas;", "A man drives a car."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Declarations must be followed by concrete steps to trace, freeze, seize and confiscate the proceeds of crime.", "pos": ["The statements must be followed up by practical actions to identify, freeze, seize and confiscate the proceeds of crime."], "neg": ["Today, Dean ends his four-day, 10-city \"Sleepless Summer\" tour in Chicago and New York.", "Yee grew up in the United States and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.", "Bashir felt he was being tried by opinion not on the facts, Mahendradatta told Reuters.", "A boy is running on a beach.", "A man is doing exercise."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Do you think that the Austrian model, i.e. bilateral majority resolutions, will be used in future as a way of passing resolutions which bypass the European institutions and of forming a new institution or a new group in order to circumvent unanimity in the Council?", "pos": ["Do you think that the ‘ Austrian 'model – namely decision-making majority bilateral - will in future be an instrument for making it possible to take decisions by ignoring the European institutions and to establish a new institution, or a new group, to be able to get round the unanimity rule in the Council?"], "neg": ["Do you think that the model of the \"-\" - namely the majority - will be in the future as a means of taking in ignoring the European institutions and to a new institution, or a new Group, to be able to bypass the rule of unanimity in the Council?", "The military said it had killed 12 rebels and captured nine in the campaign so far, for the loss of six soldiers wounded.", "A man is exercising.", "A boy is playing an instrument.", "A woman is playing the guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to apply the precautionary principle.", "pos": ["When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to put the precautionary principle into practice."], "neg": ["A man is playing guitar.", "A woman boils eggs.", "Furthermore, we would have a chance to demonstrate to Europe that we are able to develop only constitutional equality of Serbia and Montenegro within Yugoslavia, recognising the real democratic principles.", "A rabbit is sniffing and pawing a stuffed rabbit.", "While withdrawing the resolution, however, I express the conviction that this Parliament would have made its voice heard better if, in anticipation of the Council of Nice, it had devoted a specific and separate resolution to these important and difficult topics of the Intergovernmental Conference, instead of dealing with them in a single resolution that also embraces all the other points on the Council agenda."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is our priority fight in order to ensure that the affirmation of fundamental rights is put into practice in our political decisions.", "pos": ["It is our priority for the assertion of fundamental rights is in political choices."], "neg": ["A man and woman are Bollywood dancing.", "(The Parliament accepts the oral amendment)", "It crosses the 8 January of this year. it is to have a Union of Tunisian opponents in France, which Moreover it.", "It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union.", "Thirdly: the approval of the enlargement and its positive prospects for the different countries and for the EU as a whole and - the example of Denmark is for us to the point - matters of the social and economic policy."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "We have heard that the previous Council Presidency first restructured and then scrapped the Ministry for Equality.", "pos": ["We heard that the previous presidency initially restructured then dismantled the ministry for the equal opportunity."], "neg": ["We have heard that the first and then the inequality of opportunity.", "The cat played with a watermelon.", "A person dices up an orange pepper.", "Mr. Turner transferred about 10 million shares to a charitable trust before they were sold.", "At Feira, the Council considered those countries participating in the Stabilisation and Association Process as potential applicants for membership of the European Union."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This rule can be applied equally to all recreational but dangerous drugs when no one but the person consuming the drug is likely to be affected.", "pos": ["This rule can also apply to all drugs récréationnelles but dangerous, provided that the consumer of drugs is the only one to run risks."], "neg": ["This rule can also apply to all drugs récréationnelles but dangerous as far as the consumer of drugs should be the only to run risks.", "This could also apply to all drugs but dangerous insofar as the consumer of drugs is the only to run risks.", "This rule can apply to all drugs récréationnelles provided that the consumer but dangerous drugs is the only to run risks.", "A man is tying in the machine.", "I find it a little strange to try to now force the Commission to a motion for a resolution and ask him in a same time to establish a Green Paper on the current state of voluntary insurance and health insurance complementary."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "This is our priority fight in order to ensure that the affirmation of fundamental rights is put into practice in our political decisions.", "pos": ["It is our priority combat so that the assertion of fundamental rights is concretized in political choices."], "neg": ["Let us, as a Europe of 15 Member States, organise ourselves in order to be able to welcome those countries who are knocking at the door into the fold under respectable conditions.", "A man is playing a violin.", "\"If you pass this bill, Big Brother will be watching you,\" said Rep. John Mabry, D-Waco.", "Still, he said, \"I'm absolutely confident we're going to have a bill.\"", "Question No 6 by (H-0886/00):"], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Finally, I welcome the idea that we should review the implementation of the programme annually.", "pos": ["Finally, I welcome the idea of giving an annual meeting in order to make an assessment of the implementation of the programme."], "neg": ["The labelling of beef that was agreed on, which is a minimum form of labelling and only came into force two and a half months ago, does not make it possible for the origin of animals to be adequately traced, and we were very slow to ban specified risk materials.", "The flag was moving in the air.", "During 2001 and 2002, Morgenthau said, wire transfers from just four of Beacon Hill's 40 accounts totaled more than $3.2 billion.", "The spacecraft is scheduled to blast off between next Wednesday and Friday from a launching site in the Gobi Desert.", "A person is adding oil in the pan."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Whilst employment may be the European Union' s priority policy, fisheries, as another economic sector, cannot remain on the sidelines.", "pos": ["If employment is the priority Union policy, fishing, as an economic sector, cannot remain in margin."], "neg": ["If the employment is the policy of the Union, the Community, as a sector, cannot remain on the sidelines.", "A person crashes on a motorcycle.", "He explained that he found Antetonitrus when he came to Wits in 2001 as a post-doctoral research assistant at England's University of Bristol.", "The joint debate is closed.", "The safeguarding of the universal service to the aid of a compensation fund which would make it possible to engage in private profits for the benefit of the public service will probably long."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Thank you very much, Commissioner.", "pos": ["Thank you very much, Mr Commissioner."], "neg": ["A guy is talking into a microphone.", "Hospitals and the Red Cross appealed to blood donors yesterday.", "Those who refuse and enjoy the same freedom of movement as the passengers out of a car.", "A child is waking up.", "The arrests came just days after Israeli troops shot and killed Abdullah Kawasme, the militant group's leader in Hebron."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda.", "pos": ["There is urgency and that is why we have decided to put this issue on the agenda."], "neg": ["It is an urgent matter and it is to this that we have to put this point to the order of the day.", "Shiites make up 20 percent of the country's population.", "A man and woman are Bollywood dancing.", "Rich Media interactive ad formats doubled their share from 3% in second quarter of 2002, to 6% in the second quarter of 2003.", "Mayor Joe T. Parker said late Thursday that the three workers were two men and a woman who were inside the building when the first blast occurred."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The lesson for this Parliament this morning must be that we have to conclude that maritime laws throughout the world are in a state of shambles and we have to begin the process of putting them right.", "pos": ["The lesson for us within this House in its debate this morning is that we are forced to conclude that the laws at sea are, in the world, in a state of chaos, and that we must get down to work to bring order."], "neg": ["Those who stand apart from reinforced cooperation are really being given the same freedom as the back seat passengers in a car.", "Racers are running down a track.", "A man is singing.", "A man is reading an email.", "A man is talking."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Either we are in a club or we are out of it and it is particularly important that we accept this.", "pos": ["Either we are part of the club, or we are not and we must therefore we abide by this decision."], "neg": ["Either we are part of the club, we are not and we must, therefore, we have to comply with this.", "The boy fired once into a wall and sprayed the room with fire extinguishers, making it hard to see, the chief said.", "A woman is swimming.", "Bishop O'Brien, aged 67, had told police he thought he had hit a dog or cat.", "There is, of course, one crucial event, namely that a start has been made with category four and with looking at ways how we will deal with it, but it is not yet entirely clear whether we have managed to resolve this, partly because the Council refuses to have sufficient input in the attendant thought processes."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The right of a government arbitrarily to set aside its own constitution is the defining characteristic of a tyranny.", "pos": ["The right to a government to remove arbitrarily its constitution is defining characteristic of a tyranny."], "neg": ["Those reports were denied by the interior minister, Prince Nayef.", "The British Foreign Office said Monday that coalition authorities in Iraq were pleased that the men were freed.", "A man breaks cinder blocks on another man.", "The acquisition has been approved by both companies' board of directors and is expected to close in the third quarter this year.", "Two men are playing football."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "After all, it is by no means certain that the proposed definition of equitable price is better than any other, because the various definitions that are currently in use in the Member States are all perfectly satisfactory.", "pos": ["Indeed, it is not at all convinced that the definition of fair price which is proposed is better than another, because the different definitions used in the Member States are sufficient all amply."], "neg": ["Indeed, it is not absolutely certain that the definition of fair price which is better than another, because the definitions used in the Member States in all amply sufficient.", "Indeed, it is absolutely not certain only the definition of fair price which is proposed is better than another, because the various definitions used currently in the Member States are enough all amply.", "In fact, it is not absolutely certain that the definition of price that is proposed is better than another, because the different currently in the Member States all fully.", "Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call had expected Kodak to earn 68 cents a share for the quarter.", "A man is playing a guitar."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The labelling of beef that was agreed on, which is a minimum form of labelling and only came into force two and a half months ago, does not make it possible for the origin of animals to be adequately traced, and we were very slow to ban specified risk materials.", "pos": ["The labelling of beef which has been decided, which is a minimum labelling and which entered into force for two and a half months, does not allow for properly tracing the origin of animals, and we have belatedly banned specified risk material."], "neg": ["The other viewpoint illustrated by the rapporteur' s initial statement and shared by a number of members is to promote regulations and codes of conduct which are needed in order to establish among insurers ways of organising costs on a mutual basis providing everybody with guaranteed access to high-quality care and to counter the risk of discriminatory practices developing together with risk and client selection.", "The monkey is hanging from the trees.", "A man is riding on a boat.", "Google's investors include prominent VC firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, the paper noted.", "I know that in France, the principle of demolition of the whole herd was applied and that does not seem the best means of fighting this phenomenon."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to apply the precautionary principle.", "pos": ["When we are confronted with a potential risk, it is important to put the precautionary principle into practice."], "neg": ["Someone is pouring oil into a skillet.", "It generated $4.47 billion of profit and $20 billion of revenue in the year's first half, 53 percent of Citigroup's totals.", "Plofsky said the commission won't investigate because the three-year statute of limitations has expired.", "Still, he said, \"I'm absolutely confident we're going to have a bill.\"", "More than 130 people have been arrested and $17 million worth of property seized in an Internet fraud sweep announced Friday by three U.S. government agencies."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Question No 6 by (H-0886/00):", "pos": ["Question No 6 by (H-0886/00):"], "neg": ["A dog is rolling from side to side.", "The only case for which no tax is still perceived \"is an example of supply in the European Community from a third country.", "Part of the accord was the implementation of a special health council that would monitor health spending and progress in reforming the health system.", "Tour doctors later confirmed that he had broken his right leg near the hip and also sustained wrist and elbow fractures.", "I stress this point because the market cannot regulate everything, which is why competition is not completely unrestricted, nor should it be."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That made them heavily dependent on loans.", "pos": ["An evolution which made them strongly dependent on the borrowed capital."], "neg": ["A policy which has been strongly capital.", "A development which made capital borrowed heavily dependent.", "A development which has made heavily dependent on capital loans.", "Above all, when a company unipersonnelle or a company with fewer than 250 employees is a project, it must be possible to receive financing not only with a guarantee to 120%, but also on the basis of a good idea.", "Last year, he made an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination for governor."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Mr President, we took a great deal of care over preparing the Karamanou report in the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs.", "pos": ["Mr President, the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and internal affairs has prepared with great care the Karamanou report."], "neg": ["The man is holding a skunk.", "Mr President, I voted for the García-Margallo y Marfil report on the taxation of electronic commerce.", "Davey started attending Northwest College, which is affiliated with the Assemblies of God, in 1999 with plans to become a minister.", "A woman is slicing mango.", "A man is slicing a carrot by a machine."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The debate is closed.", "pos": ["The debate is closed."], "neg": ["A cat is playing with a watermelon on a floor.", "A little girl is playing a grand piano on stage.", "The injured passenger at John Peter Smith Hospital died later Friday morning, Jones said.", "The new policy gives greatest weight to grades, test scores and a student's high school curriculum.", "Given this situation, there is an inescapable need for greater involvement and greater effectiveness in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "I also voted against a text which calls for the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the eventual Treaty of Nice.", "pos": ["I also voted against a text which calls for the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the future Treaty, which will be adopted in Nice."], "neg": ["The man is playing the guitar.", "A girl is jumping onto a car.", "The only case for which no tax is still being EU is one of a - in the change from a third country.", "The company posted a profit of $54.3 million, or 22 cents per share, in the year-ago period.", "A man is petting a dog."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "You do not even intend to incorporate it into the Treaty, evidence indeed that this text, this exercise was always destined to be laid aside.", "pos": ["You do not even want to incorporate it into the Treaty, which shows that this text was to be put to one side."], "neg": ["You do not even want to incorporate into the Treaty, which shows that this text should be set aside.", "You do not even want to incorporate into the Treaty, that proves that this text should be set aside.", "You do not want in the Treaty, which shows that this text must be put aside.", "All those who work currently out a job in social conditions.", "Ray Brent Marsh, 29, faces multiple counts of burial service fraud, making false statements, abuse of a dead body and theft."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Reiterating the calls made by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 March 2000, what initiatives does the Presidency of the European Council propose to take with a view to playing a more active role so as to guarantee the full and complete application of the UN peace plan?", "pos": ["As the European Parliament called for in its resolution of 16 March 2000, that these initiatives is the Presidency of the European Council intend to take to play a more active role in order to ensure the full implementation of the UN Peace Plan?"], "neg": ["Someone is holding and petting a baby tiger.", "The man is seasoning the sausages.", "Customers that pay the $1,219 entrance fee get SMS 2003 with 10 device client access licenses.", "Therefore, I also believe that this reconciliation is sustainable, but that the government, which has very courageously found a solution to the university issue and to many other issues, needs visible signs of its success, and powerful support, else peace throughout the region will be under threat.", "Perry has since called two special legislative sessions to try force the redistricting plan through."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "All those who are at present engaged in illicit work would obtain work with decent social conditions.", "pos": ["All those which currently work with the black would obtain an employment under decent social conditions."], "neg": ["Everyone who works are currently obtiendraient undeclared work in decent social conditions.", "The cook pouring oil into the pan.", "Worst of all, I believe, is having to issue a warning that a court judgment in their favour may just be a set of comforting words and make no real difference in their lives.", "The women are sitiing down.", "The right for a government to remove arbitrarily its constitution is defining characteristic of a tyranny."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "As there is still a lot of uncertainty, we must know what the scientific facts are and what action must be taken.", "pos": ["We need to know today, since we are always in uncertainty, what are the scientific data, what measures are to be taken."], "neg": ["- My party has serious reservations about Community law applying to the sale of consumer products, as against applying the concept of mutual recognition of standards.", "Mr. Swan's group supported the governor's Democratic opponent, Bill Curry, in the 2002 election.", "\"But HRT should not be used to prevent heart disease or any other chronic condition.\"", "The dog took something out of the refrigerator.", "That made them heavily dependent on loans."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": ". (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united European continent.", "pos": ["- (ES) Mr President, enlargement is essential for the construction of a strong and united Europe."], "neg": ["A boy is playing the violin onstage.", "A baby panda plays with a stick.", "The target was being shot with bullets.", "The man is walking.", "Retail pricing for SMS 2003 with 10 device client access licenses is $1,219."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda.", "pos": ["There is urgency and therefore we decided to put this point at the order of business."], "neg": ["It is an urgent matter and it is to this that we have to put this point to the order of the day.", "But under cross-examination by O'Donnell's attorney, Lorna Schofield, Toepfer conceded she had ignored many of O'Donnell's suggestions and projects.", "A man is riding a motorcycle.", "A woman is climbing a rock wall.", "When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to apply the precautionary principle."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The resolution on Nice, voted today, does not reflect this.", "pos": ["The resolution on the Nice Summit, which has just been passed, does not reflect the."], "neg": ["The resolution on the Nice Summit, which just does not.", "Unfortunately, the ultimate objective of a European Constitution would be precisely the opposite, and so, of course, we cannot vote for it.", "In my view, however, there is nothing worse than having to warn people that a ruling in their favour could not have been a series of words réconfortants and do not have any consequences concrete on their existence.", "The euro has slipped nearly four percent since matching a record peak of around $1.1935 only last week and hitting an all-time high of 140.90 yen in late May.", "A woman is slicing onions with a large knife."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Approval of the Minutes of the previous sitting", "pos": ["Approval of the Minutes of the previous sitting."], "neg": ["A tiger is walking around his cage.", "Gainer said the two staff aides are \"very sorry this all happened,\" and the security personnel had performed \"well within standards.\"", "It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union.", "MSN Messenger 6 will be available for download starting at 6 p.m. GMT on Wednesday from http://messenger.msn.com/download/v6preview.asp.", "Along with chip maker Intel, the companies include Sony, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, International Business Machines, Gateway, Nokia and others."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "That was changed in the face of criticism, especially from Ireland and France, and a different spin has now been put on it by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer: it is now being portrayed as a user charge for all, including British lorry drivers.", "pos": ["Faced with criticisms, particularly those of Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer has given a new interpretation: it is now a matter of resources for all users, including the drivers of heavy goods vehicles."], "neg": ["Faced with criticism, especially those in Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer gave a new interpretation of it: it is now a tax for all users, including the British drivers of heavy goods vehicles.", "Given the criticisms, particularly those of Ireland and France, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer has given a new interpretation: it would now a tax for all users, including the lorry drivers in the UK.", "A man is catching a ball.", "OPEC producers at a meeting on Wednesday are set to pressure independent oil exporters to contribute to the cartel's next supply cut to allow for the return of Iraqi oil.", "Thus, it is imperative that the inter-service Group are very quickly, of the Commission, so that all the proposals to act can be, during their examination by the force on the basis of Article 299, paragraph 2, a detailed impact."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "If we define a clear, binding framework for the Member States, then there should be a longer evaluation period for the various support systems required to satisfy these requirements.", "pos": ["If we create a clear framework and binding on the Member States, the various systems to meet these requirements should have a longer period test."], "neg": ["A woman is squeezing juice out of a lemon.", "Two men are fighting in a cattle pen.", "This Parliament has, however, also fought for this reduction of funds for innovative actions should be compensated for by the use of flexibility, defined in a statement on the financial perspective.", "Firstly, that of simplification and clarification of the Treaties.", "The tortoise is walking."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "And I am telling you loud and clear: Kostunica must be given his chance here and I therefore hope that he will give amnesty in the next couple of weeks or months, but meanwhile, I do want the introduction of those two new budget lines, democratisation and reconstruction, to be accompanied by political conditions, both from a political and budgetary perspective.", "pos": ["And I say to you very clearly: we need to give its opportunity to Koitunica, and I therefore hope that he will ensure an amnesty over the coming weeks or months; but meanwhile, I hope, however, that, in political terms and in budgetary terms, political conditions are linked to the introduction of these two new budget lines, namely democratisation and reconstruction."], "neg": ["The labelling of beef that was agreed on, which is a minimum form of labelling and only came into force two and a half months ago, does not make it possible for the origin of animals to be adequately traced, and we were very slow to ban specified risk materials.", "State Education Commissioner Kent King said Wednesday that the scores on the Missouri Assessment Program tests disappointed him.", "The cat cleaned his face with his paw.", "\"Americans don't cut and run, we have to see this misadventure through,\" she said.", "Unfortunately, the final objective of a European Constitution would be exactly the opposite and obviously we cannot endorse it."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "The aim of the annual review is to identify such potential improvements.", "pos": ["The annual report is designed to identify such potential improvements."], "neg": [". (ES) Mr. President, widening is essential for the construction of a strong and plain continent of Europe.", "A man is seasoning some dough in a pan.", "On the contrary, the influence of the national democracies fall into force by the further restriction of the right of veto and to increasing the power of Parliament to the EU.", "The bill is among the first of 13 that Congress must pass each year to fund the federal government.", "If we want to help Indonesia, we must act now with money and concrete action, and not only with words."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "Action is needed quickly, which is why we decided to include this item on the agenda.", "pos": ["It is urgent and that is why we have decided to put this item on the agenda."], "neg": ["It is an urgent matter and it is to this that we have to put this point to the order of the day.", "However, the Saudi interior minister, Prince Nayef, denied the reports.", "Looking to buy the latest Harry Potter?", "A person dices up an orange pepper.", "I think that France has set an excellent example by finally deciding to take this step."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "One could indeed wish for more and for improvement, but I honestly believe that we have made a good start.", "pos": ["We can actually want more and better, but I think quite honestly that it is a good start."], "neg": ["The labelling of beef that was agreed on, which is a minimum form of labelling and only came into force two and a half months ago, does not make it possible for the origin of animals to be adequately traced, and we were very slow to ban specified risk materials.", "A woman plays the flute.", "Strayhorn said it was the first time in Texas history a comptroller had not certified the appropriations act.", "In 2006, the group says the market will rebound 29.6 percent to $21.3 billion in sales.", "We have started to have exchanges on this issue, it emerges that all the Member States wish to the maintenance of this ceiling after enlargement."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "(Parliament accepted the oral amendment)", "pos": ["(Parliament accepted the oral amendment)"], "neg": ["Question No 6 by (H-0886/00):", "A woman cuts up a vegetable.", "When we are faced with a potential risk, it is important to apply the precautionary principle.", "An airplane moves along a runway.", "The damages included $24 million in compensatory damages and $52 million in punitive damages for IDJ."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}
{"query": "- My party has serious reservations about Community law applying to the sale of consumer products, as against applying the concept of mutual recognition of standards.", "pos": ["My party serious reservations about the regulation of the sale of consumption by means of Community legislation, as it has reservations about the concept of mutual recognition of standards."], "neg": ["Judge Leroy Millette Jr. can reduce the punishment to life in prison without parole when Muhammad is formally sentenced Feb. 12, but Virginia judges rarely take such action.", "Madam President, I ask you, on behalf of my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries and on my own behalf, to send a message of condolence from Parliament to the families of the victims and to the local authorities of both Brittany and of Marín, city of Galicia, which is from the majority of the victims.", "We don't need a little bitty tax relief plan.", "Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call had expected Kodak to earn 68 cents a share for the quarter.", "The labelling of beef which has been decided, which is a minimum labelling and which has only been in force for two and a half months, does not make it possible to properly remind the origin of the animals and we banned very late specified risk material."], "instruction": "Retrieve semantically similar text."}