standard of value
Example Sentences
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On a human standard of value, the answer is absolutely yes.
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
The dollar thus became the standard of value against which all other moneys in the non-Communist world are measured.
From Time Magazine Archive
Constitutional powers, of the kind last mentioned—that is, the power to ordain a standard of value and to provide a circulating medium for a legal tender—are subject to no mutations of any kind.
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
