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

Are we to surrender our faith in the future of our kind to the spectacle of a miserable species sentenced by its own nature to self-destruction?

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

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

From Concerning Christian Liberty by Luther, Martin

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

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