answer the purpose
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A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whatever use can be made of my letter to stop the very ill-contrived project to which it relates, will answer the purpose for which it was written.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
It would answer the purpose quite as well—perhaps better," the doctor added thoughtfully,—"if her husband could be removed from the environment.
From Concerning Sally by Hopkins, William John
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
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
