"turn the scale" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in the figurative sense when referring to making a situation or decision tilt in favor of something or someone: The events of the past week have really turned the scale in favor of the opposing party.
As mentioned above, low-grade diffuse astrocytoma in contrast to pilocytic astrocytoma would contain frequent mutations in the IDH1 gene and as such testing for both markers in combination could finally turn the scales for one of the two entities.
By refusing to put the vote of outlawry, for which the majority of the council clamoured, by his opportune closing of the sitting, and by appealing to the soldiers outside to disperse "the representatives of the dagger," Lucien turned the scale in favour of his brother.
The limitless amount of data turns the scale of online nudges to something that we have yet to encounter.
One wrote: "It was charity, as much as love or fame, which finally turned the scale".
Hastings was critical of a British failure to concentrate force at the crucial place and time and referred to the feelings of the "men on the spot" in Villers-Bocage that "a single extra infantry brigade could have been decisive in turning the scale".
The unforeseen entry of Great Britain into the war against Germany alarmed the Turks, but the timely arrival of two German warships, the Goeben and the Breslau, in the Dardanelles on August 10 turned the scales in favour of Enver's policy.
As the solar cells are energised again by the rising sun, the aircraft climbs again.Keeping the weight of Solar Impulse 2 to a bare minimum has been critical: it turns the scales at just 2,300kg (5,000 pounds).
Wisden attributed England's victory to "superb fast bowling by Tyson and Statham [that] turned the scales so that finally the Australian batsmen were completely humbled".
The authors employed the reversible translation transform of time scales to turn the time scale into the real line, then the differential equations on time scales can be changed into a traditional impulsive differential equations on (mathbb{R}) simultaneously.
Then we must turn the large-scale transportation of people & goods back to the railroads.
