What is "had to"

Usage examples of "had to".

Because the technology of each of these companies was new and unproven when I invested, and because there were no real markets for the new technologies at the time the investments were made, I had to learn the hard way, which was by experience, as opposed to through advice.

I moved my way up the ranks, changed companies when I had to, but stuck to my field and industry until I accepted an offer to be President and CEO of another well-known consumer products company.

I also knew that whatever I wanted to achieve professionally had to be earned through hard work, dedication, and by developing an affinity for the people with whom I worked.

My instincts told me the building could become the prime office location it once had been, and that there had to be a way to make it work.

Gernsback was just one brilliant, cranky man, and the only power he had to enforce his attitudes was the rejection slip.

He believed I had to be happy, and if that meant starting a company so I could put my skills and energy to good use, then I should do it.

When I mentioned to a salesperson that I had to cut her salary because she’.

Consequently, science fiction, as a self defining genre, has had to resist the impulses of some of its best friends to put it into different bags at different times in its history, right down to the present one-bags which in every case would have excluded work that properly belonged within its canon.

All these explanations he had to adjourn to the period of his arrival.

For, carrying our high hopes with us, all these years, as one side of life after another was turned to us, as we had to pass through rough ways as well as smooth, to wrestle with the stubborn tendencies of things, full-breasted and strenuous, we have fought and worked into ourselves an intimate knowledge of what we then only divined, we have realized much that then loomed dim and ghostly before us, we have learned to abide confidently by spiritual law.

But in the inevitable pressure cooker of rough times, particularly in start-up, it was clear that something had to give.

They looked at me and thought I was crazy, because the scene had to be shot that day and the World Series was beginning the following day.

I had to take one of two courses of action: a fearful, defensive one or a faithful, riskier one.

Mutti said that either Melchior or Otto had to go with her because the streets were not as safe as they should be.