answer the purpose
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A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
And how would the ministers feel if somebody should invent a clergyman of wood that would to all intents and purposes answer the purpose?
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green
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
In throwing or casting the fly I never "whip" or "flail" the rod, and I never cast with a long line when a short one will answer the purpose.
From The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle by Bradford, Charles Barker
