by its own nature

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Offshore drilling by its own nature involves potentially catastrophic risks, namely small-probability events with enormous consequences.

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2010

Now love is by its own nature dutiful and obedient to the beloved object.

From Concerning Christian Liberty by Luther, Martin

That exquisite: and lofty pleasure which it is the first and the last aim of all true art to give, must, by its own nature, be lasting also.

From A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick by Palgrave, Francis Turner

This matter, dead in itself, possesses by its own nature no inherent tendency; as life of every sort is foreign to it, itself makes no encroachment on the Divine.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

It is not by its own nature, for straight motion from above downward is natural to it; therefore circular motion could not be natural to it.

From The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Stimson, Dorothy