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

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.

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.

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