answer the purpose
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A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced.
From Time Magazine Archive
The better known book is preferred before the less known, the conservative when it will answer the purpose, before the destructive.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
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
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.
Equal quantities of each best answer the purpose.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
