However, grave political instability remains along with severe economic problems.
Bilingual Maori signage remains, along with a disproportionate attention to that culture's homage to whales.
But an invisible front line remains along with off-limits areas between government controlled and rebel-held territory.
In one, a stone water trough remains, along with the scrawled names of the bulls that were once stabled there.
In 2006, the emirate passed an anti-trafficking law that helped get it hoisted to the Tier 2 Watch List, where it remains, along with Mexico (and Moldova).
I lived thirteen blocks from Ground Zero at the time and the sadness still remains along with more love I feel towards the City.
Considering United were down to 10 men at the time it appears some of the old fighting spirit still remains, along with the knack of scoring late winners.
Reached by an hour-long hike – or by horseback – the original farmhouse remains, along with four simple, solar-powered wooden cabins that hold up to four people.
While they wait for that day, the challenge of setting up multiple caucus sites for the first time remains, along with training volunteers to run them.
Yet Mr Crocker's analysis also makes sense.Although Kabul took a pasting this time, it remains, along with all the country's big urban areas, emphatically under government control.
Britain remains, along with France, one of the Union's two big military powers, which gives it great weight in determining foreign affairs.
