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
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
Nicholson is correct, however, in looking to the standard of value for part of the explanation of changes in prices.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
