11.   The region remains one of the most violent in Mexico.

12.   The region remains under Chinese control.

13.   The region remains an attractive place to live.

14.   The region remains unincorporated, a territory that no county has claimed.

15.   Their updated state analyses show that the region remained extraordinarily strong, and growth in gross state product accelerated this year in all but one state.

16.   While the two leaders are locked in their rivalry, their troops have not been well controlled, and the region remains awash with weapons.

17.   Without high savings, the region will remain fatally addicted to foreign capital.

18.   A peace accord last year ended a civil war between the hard-line government and mostly Muslim rebels, but the region remains restive.

19.   But it never happened in Mostar, and the region still remains one of the hot-spots in the relations between the federal partners.

20.   But the region remains tense, and there have been more than a dozen bombings in Dushanbe in the past two months.