Thailand
Thailand is the only country in Southeast Asia that have never been colonized.
The loyalists remained loyal to the British throughout the American Revolution.
Thailand remained free.
Thailand because of two remarkable rulers, King Mongkut and his son King Chulalongkorn. Both promoted Wester learning and maintained friendly relations with the major European powers.
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The principle of civil control of the military remained intact, the true legacy of Colonial policing after the Revolutionary War.
South Australia is the only Australian state to have never received convicts. It was founded as an entirely free state, and remained that way throughout Australia's colonial period.
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Portugal, Spain, and Italy remained Catholic.
Remained can be both! In the sentence The boy remained sleepy throughout the play, remained is a linking verb. because it connects the subject, the boy to the adj sleepy.
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