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
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
“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
And yet the standard of value will always be maintained.
From A New Banking System The Needful Capital for Rebuilding the Burnt District by Spooner, Lysander
