11.   For the administration to argue now that the Taliban were not the legitimate government sounds hollow.

12.   He said that although the United States did not recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan, Afghanistan was still a party to the convention.

13.   International aid dried up as Haiti was seen as lacking a legitimate government.

14.   It can destabilize legitimate governments more effectively than terrorism.

15.   It said that although the United States did not recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan, Afghanistan was still a party to the convention.

16.   North Korea then was booming economically and was regarded by many Koreans as a more legitimate government than the American-backed dictatorship in the South.

17.   Now that elections have given the Bosnian Serbs their own legitimate government recognized by the West, there is no telling how they will use their newfound power.

18.   Potentially, that could provoke an armed response from the mainland state that the United States recognizes as the sole legitimate Chinese government.

19.   Pakistan is the only other country, other than Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, to recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.

20.   Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were the only countries that had recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.