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
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
Hermann Abs, former head of West Germany's Deutsche Bank, says that "the fluctuations of the gold market preclude the establishment of gold as a standard of value."
From Time Magazine Archive
This seems to me to follow necessarily from the duty already mentioned cast upon congress by the coinage power,—to create and maintain a uniform metallic standard of value throughout the Union.
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
