to be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
2001, (w), Feeding Frenzy:
We had already been claimed by the split infinitives of Star Trek, were already preparing to boldly go into a world where ethics, so far from inhering in the very structure of the cosmos, was a matter of personal taste ....
2009, John Kraemer & Larry Gostin, The Guardian, 5 Jan 2009:
Sovereignty should inhere in the people and not the government, so governments forfeit sovereignty when they commit crimes against humanity.