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
But, either subsisting by its own nature, or emanated from the producing Being, it exists from all eternity, because it exists, and there is no reason why it should not have existed before.
From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
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
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 John Marshall
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 Dorothy Stimson
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