answer the purpose

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A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced.

From Time Magazine Archive

The better known book is preferred before the less known, the conservative when it will answer the purpose, before the destructive.

From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

There was no town that would answer the purpose, and the place that suited best was Valley Forge on the Schuylkill River, twenty-one miles above Philadelphia.

From Mildred's New Daughter by Finley, Martha

Would not the Scotch bill for drawbacks answer the purpose, or if that were likely to be displeasing to the North British members, some one of the many money-bills that were then pending?

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert

II., will just as317 well answer the purpose of exemplifying the Venetian love of gloom and wildness, united with perfect definition of detail.

From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John