answer the purpose
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A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced.
From Time Magazine Archive
This arrangement is one well calculated to answer the purpose of collectors, and therefore we desire to draw their attention to it.
Lining for Insect Boxes.—The old lining of insect boxes was the ordinary sheet cork of commerce, and if a good quality of cork is procurable it will answer the purpose.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Riley, C. V.
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.
And if they have not, no doubt Dr. Warren will order twenty-five more—or something else that will answer the purpose.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza
