standard of value
Example Sentences
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Not everyone holds human life as their standard of value, and people often argue that things are right or wrong for reasons other than the ways they benefit or harm human beings.
From Forbes • Jan. 29, 2015
It is holding human nonimpact as one’s standard of value, without regard for human life and happiness.
From Forbes • Jan. 29, 2015
“Its life is the standard of value directing its actions,” Rand wrote, “it acts automatically to further its life and cannot act for its own destruction.”
From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 2012
Hermann Abs, former head of West Germany's Deutsche Bank, says that "the fluctuations of the gold market preclude the establishment of gold as a standard of value."
From Time Magazine Archive
Constitutional powers, of the kind last mentioned—that is, the power to ordain a standard of value and to provide a circulating medium for a legal tender—are subject to no mutations of any kind.
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
