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

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

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

It will have an important influence on political and social relations; not indeed by its own nature, but as it were accidentally through the disposition of mankind.

From Kepler by Bryant, Walter W. (Walter William)

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