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 it is not to be argued that anything which can be moved can be eternal, except in the case of that which by its own nature has eternal motion.

From A Short History of Greek Philosophy by Marshall, John

The charge, if it is just, must be, by its own nature, easily proved, and that no proof is brought may, perhaps, be sufficient to make us suspect that it is not just.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I by Johnson, Samuel

A war waged for and on account of slavery—for its increase and perpetuation—necessarily, by its own nature, puts that institution at stake, and risks it on the contingency of failure.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

For the authority of a foreign conqueror is not circumscribed by the customs and statutes of the conquered nation, but is, by its own nature, despotic.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron