standard of value
Example Sentences
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This is the exact opposite of holding human life as one’s standard of value.
From Forbes • Jan. 29, 2015
Many leading environmental thinkers, including those who predict fossil fuel catastrophe, hold as their standard of value what they call “pristine” nature or wilderness—nature unaltered by man.
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
The U.S. dollar is the standard of value against which all other currencies are measured.
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.
