The phrase "affairs themselves" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize the nature or characteristics of the affairs being discussed, often in a context where the focus is on the affairs as they are, without external influence.
Example: "In examining the issues at hand, we must consider the affairs themselves rather than the opinions surrounding them."
Alternatives: "the matters themselves" or "the issues themselves".
He holds that it is not things or states of affairs themselves that are in the intellective power but rather signs or intelligible forms that serve to represent them.
Wodeham, for example, has an intricate account of the passions, involving the cognition of actual or possible states of affairs, free acts of the will (accepting or rejecting those states of affairs), and, finally, mental states of pleasure and pain which are caused by the states of affairs themselves (Knuuttila 2004).
And never mind how many Republicans had engaged in extramarital affairs themselves.
With the banks apparently so reluctant to draw a line under the affair themselves, is there any reason for the regulators to do so?
Neither do the celebs themselves ever consider that people publicly conducting love affairs with themselves is utterly tedious to listen to or watch.
Such lopsided affairs lend themselves to extensive trips to the reading room.
For the past six years, the southern Sudanese have essentially been running their own affairs, policing themselves, patrolling their borders, and wooing investment and development aid.
'It is doing enormous damage to them and they do have to realise that looking after these affairs for themselves will no longer do.' Graham has made a similar call before.
In private law, when relationships break down, we look for changes to help parents to focus on the needs of their children and to sort out their affairs for themselves as much as they can.
We cannot compromise on sovereignty or allow others to interfere in our internal affairs, position themselves as guardians of our revolution or impose leaders who do not represent a national consensus.
Provided they don't have publicly traded debt, they can keep their financial affairs to themselves.
