answer the purpose
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A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced.
From Time Magazine Archive
Epsom salt, in one ounce doses, given either as a gruel or a drench, will be found to answer the purpose well.
From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Blacklock, Ambrose
A light bag containing common table-salt, heated, or dry and hot chamomile flowers will also answer the purpose.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Although the training of birds is not so ridiculous as it may seem, yet he found that geese, if not too tough, answer the purpose of a good roast much better.
From Lecture on Artificial Flight Given by request at the Academy of Natural Sciences by Krueger, Wm. G.
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)
