answer the purpose
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A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced.
From Time Magazine Archive
II., will just as317 well answer the purpose of exemplifying the Venetian love of gloom and wildness, united with perfect definition of detail.
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John
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.
Soon afterwards Lord Dudley discovered that coal would answer the purpose just as well, and obtained a patent of monopoly.
From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by Fyfe, J. Hamilton
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
