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
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
"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
Romans, why copper became the standard of value among them, 16.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Garnier, Germain
