While the family has remained in Australia for 14 years, it has been there without lawful authority.

Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Developing countries generally remained net importers of commercial services in 2003, and their services trade has been below global averages.

She has remained abroad ever since.

The security situation has remained stable.

The art of storytelling has remained unchanged.

The number has remained unchanged since then.

The maternal mortality rate has remained generally low.

The Court has remained within its approved budget.

Overall, during the reporting period, the political and military situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina has remained stable, although there have been some difficult events.

As market size has been constricted and intraregional integration has faced obstacles, economic growth rates have remained low and obstacles and barriers to participation in the multilateral trading system remain.

While work on the standards has intensified and some elements of the Kosovo Standards Implementation Plan have been completed, progress in many areas remained insufficient.

The share of management and administration has remained low.

The area of responsibility has in general remained calm.

And often it takes just a building to change our experience of what could be done, what has been done, how the world has remained both in between stability and instability.

It is regrettable to note that the 13 steps have remained a dead letter up to now and no progress has been recorded in this area.

The country has, needlessly, remained in a post conflict situation.

The ceasefire agreement of 3 May 2003 has remained shaky.

For too long, Africa has remained the backwater of development.

The donor base for these contributions has remained relatively narrow.

There is a general view that financial and corporate restructuring has been largely completed in South East Asia, while budget deficits have narrowed or, as in Thailand, the budget has remained in surplus.

The situation in the Israel Syria sector has remained generally quiet.

The Security Council has consistently remained seized of the Ivorian crisis.

Nevertheless, it has remained at a standstill for almost a decade.

Although progress had been made on many fronts since January 2005, gaps still remained.

Progress had been made in tackling the phenomenon, but much remained to be done.

It will provide the basis to judge whether there has been sufficient progress to justify the start of a political process to determine Kosovo's final status, which has remained undetermined during the last six years.

The total number of mortal remains exhumed has remained at around 340.

Some of us may have been sublimated, but really none of us remained the same.

National prevention campaigns had been initiated in a majority of the responding countries (59 per cent, a figure that has remained almost unchanged since the second reporting period (2000 2002)).

While your cholesterol level has remained the same, the research findings have changed.

The relative share of programme funds disbursed through implementing partners has remained stable.

China's demand for iron ore has remained strong, leading to temporary local shortages.

The number of obstetric wards (maternity hospitals) has remained unchanged (19 in total).

Your Lord knows best who has fallen by the wayside, and who has remained on the true path.

Your Lord knows best who has fallen by the wayside, and who has remained on the true path.

The number of women has declined in management, but has remained the same among technical and auxiliary personnel.

However, while noteworthy concrete steps forward were taken in some areas, overall progress on the implementation of the standards remained uneven and none of the eight standards has yet been fulfilled.

The total social assistance caseload overall has remained relatively unchanged from 1999 to 2003.

Training on protection measures for the benefit of developed countries has remained virtually unchanged.

The situation in Cyprus has remained stable, with calm prevailing along the ceasefire lines.

Municipal assemblies' compliance with the rules of procedure (a priority) has remained generally satisfactory.

If the deficit goal remained unchanged before the deadline in October, the European Commission might veto the Italian draft budget, which has never been done to any country by the European Commission.

Yet there remained unfortunate tendencies towards formality, reading prepared statements, and repeating what had already been said.

Ms. Coker Appiah said that, while much progress had been made, much still remained to be done.