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
"Thus," he said, "over the whole area of the British Empire and over a very wide and important area of the world there has been established at once one uniform standard of value."
From Time Magazine Archive
Gold is the nominal standard of value, the monetary unit being the gold milreis worth 2s.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
