11.   But party watchers say that that is just a formal recognition of a process already under way.

12.   Carter negotiated the historic Camp David agreement between Israel and Egypt and extended formal diplomatic recognition to China.

13.   Even among those who said they opposed formal recognition of Vietnam, few held out much hope that any missing Americans were still alive.

14.   Foreign Minister Andrei V. Kozyrev of Russia was instrumental in talking the Iraqis into a formal recognition last year of Kuwait in its postwar borders.

15.   In fact, the only serious hope for moving out of the current political stalemate seems to lie in persuading Milosevic to give formal recognition to Bosnia.

16.   It took her a long time to win formal recognition as the first girl in Little League.

17.   Since then, however, the Israeli government has refused to grant him formal recognition, a decision the cabinet restated on Sunday.

18.   The chamber was not even half-full for the formal recognition of Lott and Daschle in their new jobs.

19.   The government has repeatedly refused to grant the rebel group formal recognition as a belligerent.

20.   The International Olympic Committee has given it formal recognition.