answer the purpose
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A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced.
From Time Magazine Archive
There several of the slender roots seem to slightly project, and they are kept clear of mud or sand so as to answer the purpose of a doorway.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard
A few frigates would answer the purpose, as the stations of the enemy's ships are almost always known on this coast, and, indeed, they seldom have any out but frigates cruising singly.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. by Various
This arrangement is one well calculated to answer the purpose of collectors, and therefore we desire to draw their attention to it.
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
