answer the purpose
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A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced.
From Time Magazine Archive
This arrangement is one well calculated to answer the purpose of collectors, and therefore we desire to draw their attention to it.
And how would the ministers feel if somebody should invent a clergyman of wood that would to all intents and purposes answer the purpose?
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green
The edifice seems to answer the purpose well; and, considering the extent of the establishment, the duties of the office have been managed much to the satisfaction of the public.
From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Norman, B. M.
But by-and-by it appeared that his silence would answer the purpose, for he heard himself apostrophised at last in that tone peculiar to the wife of one's bosom.
From Mathilde Blind by Eliot, George
