The phrase 'external player' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a phrase used to refer to someone who may be unfamiliar or new to a certain group or environment. For example: "The external player offered a unique perspective that enabled the team to think outside the box."
Should we choose to become an external player, our EU science participation terms will all come down to negotiations.
Down the road, however, there is scope for growing tension as both seek to emerge as the dominant external player in Syria.
An advance by one external player and its domestic proxy in Syria is matched by a counter-move by another player.
Mr Ping hopes international pressure will bear down on Mr Bongo, who clearly believes time is on his side because no external player is ready to consider anything like outright intervention.
Inside, along with Koss speakers, are 512 megabytes of storage — enough for about 128 songs — and MP3-playback circuitry, allowing unobtrusive listening to music without connecting an external player.
Maybe a short way to put all this is to say that we have a real problem with excessive leverage; that's not at all the same thing as the nation being deeply in hock to some external player or players.
He said: "External players cannot decide anything for the Syrians.
External players can only facilitate or influence processes of internal change; they cannot cause them.
Rescuing Syria, of course, is not primarily about the interests of external players.
External players, including the Chinese and the CIA, all had large roles in the power struggle against the MPLA.
Deinternationalising the crisis can allow a Syrian-led solution focusing on Syrian needs, not those of external players.
