The fourth class comprehends beauty and intelligence; the fifth, beauty only; and so on in a sliding scale, but all prizes.
If you have limited or no health insurance, and financial concerns are a problem, you can telephone counseling agencies in your area to ask whether a sliding scale is used and, if so, what charges correspond to your monthly income.
Frequently, agencies charge for counseling services based on a sliding scale, which takes into account the financial situation of clients.
Again, publicly funded hospitals tend to charge on the basis of a sliding scale, which takes a person's financial situation into account.
If you consult a clinical or counseling psychologist who works through an agency, you will often find that a sliding scale is used to determine charges, as in social work.
In Boston, intelligent legislation was adopted--based on good mediaeval principles--which allows dividends at a sliding scale according to the price of gas to the consumer.
That fixed the price of bread according to the cost of wheat, a sliding scale, in other words; when a bushel of wheat cost so much, a loaf weighing a certain amount must cost so much, etc.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sliding scale" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
