answer the purpose
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A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced.
From Time Magazine Archive
After a hunt through all the traps the boys managed to secure enough coverings to answer the purpose after a clumsy fashion.
From The Hickory Ridge Boy Scouts: Under Canvas or, The Hunt for the Cartaret Ghost by Douglas, Alan
A cable railway would answer the purpose to perfection, and the cost of running the steam motor would be insignificant, owing to the amount of wood and coal found within easy reach.
From Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. by Landor, A. H. Savage
Houses eighteen or twenty feet wide, and five feet high at the eaves, will answer the purpose very well.
From Dwarf Fruit Trees Their propagation, pruning, and general management, adapted to the United States and Canada by Waugh, F. A.
Whatever use can be made of my letter to stop the very ill-contrived project to which it relates, will answer the purpose for which it was written.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
