sliding scale

This tends to provide students with a sliding scale of right and wrong rather than a set of absolutes.

The surrogate told me that she charged according to a sliding scale that began at $70 an hour.

It has fixed the price of renewable power for the next 20 years on a sliding scale that will decline over time.

Do you have a sliding-scale fee policy? How much therapy would you recommend?

It would be best to reward on a sliding scale, but that would increase the complexity of the algorithm significantly.

Consider making awards on a sliding scale, so that the employee enjoys a bigger reward if he or she exceeds the performance target.

Once a farmer who has joined the scheme is hospitalized, incurred costs can be reimbursed on a sliding scale.

We could perhaps have a sliding scale of commission without a subsidy for a period of longer than two years. Say four years.

In Chicago ninth-grade students were rewarded on a sliding scale for good grades in five courses, including English, maths and science.

This is worked out on a sliding scale from between 12% to 25% of the hammer price depending on the value of the work .

An example of a sliding scale used to define opposing design traits.

A: We may offer you allowances on a sliding scale. B: Could you put it more exactly? Put it more precisely? Give the details?

To a certain extent we have to accept our starting point on the self-control sliding scale and do the best we can with it.

Proposals were to establish a sliding scale of fess, based on the annual budget of associations.

Farmers are revolting over a new sliding-scale increase in export taxes.

They were marked on a sliding scale which ranged from minus two for the most healthy to 10 for the most unhealthy.

The YMCA usually has inexpensive memberships with reduced rates for students, and some operate on a sliding scale depending on income.

We may offer you allowance on a sliding scale in order to open up the new market.

Not surprisingly, a sliding scale has been developed by which similarity of both product and mark are measured.

My American Jobs claims its sliding scale even reflects the reality of globalisation.

Status Offline This will reflect a higher percentage of criteria met at a point in time measured along the 1-4 sliding scale.

A sliding scale of fees is used for operations so that richer customers subsidise poorer ones.

calculates fees and appropriate credit or payment reductions, based on sliding scale fee for service schedule.

Fees are calculated on a sliding scale according to income, ie Richer people pay more.

a sliding scale based on the restaurant's sales, the higher the sales, the higher the percentage and vice versa.

The price is determined based on a sliding scale of quantity and type.

Royalties are assessed on a sliding scale, based on a project's pay-out and on prevailing crude oil prices.

The government also wants to impose a "sliding-scale royalty" on the project.

cost plus fluctuating fee contract ; cost plus sliding scale fee contract

Estate duty charged at a sliding scale of rates

Duty in the sliding scale