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
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
"The price of your house was your standard of value in the 1970s," says Kathryn Eickhoff, president of her own economics-research firm in New York.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gold is the nominal standard of value, the monetary unit being the gold milreis worth 2s.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
