standard of value
Example Sentences
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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
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
“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
Now, money, in the true sense of the term, is not only a medium of exchange, but it is a standard of value by which all other values are measured.
From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
