answer the purpose
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A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
It is founded upon the most obvious distinctions which will answer the purpose, and is so contrived as to provide for all or nearly all exceptional instances and variant cases.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Epsom salts, in ounce doses, given either as a gruel or a drench, will be found to answer the purpose well.
From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert
The Post Office was, in effect, a barrack, and, except the premises in Lombard Street, there were none in the immediate neighbourhood that would well answer the purpose.
From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert
