The great necessity for destroying Japan's vital lifeline of shipping gave us no choice but to sink all Japanese ships encountered.

Necessity delivers us from the embarrassment of choice

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing

I explained to the prime minister [Asgrimsson] that for the Czech Republic it was no choice, but necessity,

In the beginning, when I lived in apartments, it was a necessity. But now, even when I have a choice, I'm partial to container gardening. I like the different shapes and colors and designs of pots. I realize that, for me, it's as much about the containers as it is about the plants.

Now, too many ships were being lost like that, ... because they were lost, like that. But with the highly profitable American colonies waiting to be exploited, this was just the time for investors to be sinking their money into transatlantic transportation that wasn't sinking. So a very large prize was offered for anybody who could come up with safer ways of getting places. And back. In 1765 a clockmaker named John Harrison provided a timely solution.