standard of value
Example Sentences
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It is holding human nonimpact as one’s standard of value, without regard for human life and happiness.
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 U.S. dollar is the standard of value against which all other currencies are measured.
From Time Magazine Archive
Property; exchange; government; a standard of value; the arts of mining, assaying, coining, drawing, and sculpture; language, writing, and reckoning; historical recollections, and the wish to be remembered by future ages.
From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward
