answer the purpose
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A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced.
From Time Magazine Archive
There several of the slender roots seem to slightly project, and they are kept clear of mud or sand so as to answer the purpose of a doorway.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard
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
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
This was what was done in Chicago, during the days of her calamity, and our people wisely considered that a leaf out of her book would answer the purpose.
From The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 by Stewart, George
