Turn-the-scale Definition

Turn-the-scale Sentence Examples

• Apart from resentment against France on account of Tunisia there remained the question of the temporal power of the pope to turn the scale in favor of Austria and Germany.

• Badoglio had hoped to hold the enemy attack from Tolmino, and turn the scale by a counter-attack on the Lom plateau with his three divisions on the left bank of the river.

• To each of the combatants it seemed that the English alliance would turn the scale in his own favor.