Sentence examples for caused itself from inspiring English sources

Mr Blunkett vetoed this plan.The government is wincing at the unnecessary trouble it has caused itself.

The question thus at once arises whether the corporation can be heard to assail the validity of the statutes which were in force when it voluntarily caused itself to be incorporated.

First, even if the severity of criminal punishments is to some degree determined by the extent of the harm caused (itself a controversial matter), it typically also depends on the nature and degree of the offender's culpability for that harm: someone who kills or injures recklessly can expect to be punished more severely than someone who causes death or injury by a negligent act or omission.

From their earliest days in the Jacksonian era, when they adopted a requirement (since repealed) that a candidate must receive two-thirds of the delegates to win the nomination, the party has caused itself no end of grief.

She adds, "The damage caused itself shows just how costly floods can be if climate change is not mainstreamed in our planning processes".

The ruling faculty does not disturb itself; I mean, does not frighten itself or cause itself pain.

Further, if it were, it would have been in their power to stop themselves (I mean that if e.g. a thing can cause itself to walk it can also cause itself not to walk), and so, since on this supposition fire itself possesses the power of upward locomotion, it is clear that it should also possess the power of downward locomotion.

But if it causes itself, it causes something which is itself also cause and at the same time cause of its cause.

Causes itself is a for-profit business, though, and has raised $16.4 million from investors including Founders Fund.

In Ip7, Spinoza equates "pertaining to its nature to exist" with "essence necessarily involving existence" and "causing itself".

If this is the case then what we are looking at here is one part of an object causing another, rather than one object causing itself.