answer the purpose
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A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced.
From Time Magazine Archive
Equal quantities of each best answer the purpose.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
It is founded upon the most obvious distinctions which will answer the purpose, and is so contrived as to provide for all or nearly all exceptional instances and variant cases.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
The present chaotic condition of Protestant princedoms in Germany may answer the purpose almost as well as a period of abeyance.
From Harriet Martineau by Miller, Florence Fenwick
The thread ought to be of white silk, though any undyed thread, which is firm, round, and capable of standing a pull, will answer the purpose.
From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Blacklock, Ambrose
