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
This is the exact opposite of holding human life as one’s standard of value.
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
"Money is the sole American standard of value," said Joad.
From Time Magazine Archive
But congress has the same power to establish a standard of weights and measures as it has to establish a standard of value, and can, from time to time, alter such standard.
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
