The law remained an external authority expressing God's requirements, but providing no power to keep them.

This kind of place is held together only by a strong external authority.

When that external authority goes, people can begin to feel they are sinking.

In a war for the nation's life this was held by external authorities to be provocative.

It makes no appeal to the external authority of theory.

New forms were constantly referred back to the external authorities of history and tradition.

A state of grace must be conferred by an external authority.

I would also like to point to the external authorities, the agencies.

At all events, Parliament should be involved in choosing these external authorities.

The only way out of this is to outsource these procedures to an external authority.