standard of value
Example Sentences
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We are sloppy about the standard by which we measure good and bad, our standard of value.
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
For the moment Holland had therefore no standard of value, the Mint being closed to silver, and gold being unrecognised.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
