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
We are sloppy about the standard by which we measure good and bad, our 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
Floating of the dollar, the currency that has served as the standard of value for all other non-Communist money, would represent the ultimate in flexibility.
From Time Magazine Archive
In considering this question we assume as a fundamental proposition that it is the duty of every government to establish a standard of value.
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
