The phrase "a consistent attempt to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing ongoing efforts or endeavors towards a specific goal or outcome.
Example: "The organization has made a consistent attempt to improve its environmental policies over the past few years."
Alternatives: "a steady effort to" or "a continual effort to".
The thinktanks were no exception: for them politics was a succession of wheezes and headlines rather than a consistent attempt to advance a project aimed at a fundamental restructuring of society, taking back territory lost under Thatcherism.
Mass slaughter is not unknown in China - millions died in the conflicts surrounding the Taiping rebellion in the second half of the 19th century, for example - but mass murder by Mao was part of a consistent attempt to implement a western revolutionary ideology, just as it was in the Soviet Union.
Much has been written about what my colleague Alexandra Schwartz has called "the hard doctrine of personal optimization": the use of metrics in a consistent attempt to maximize one's performance fitness-wise, love-wise, mental-health-wise, diet-wise—thus turning even the most intimate areas of one's life into forms of work.
It is a consistent attempt to re-conceptualize philosophy, to reframe the terms in which many philosophers think about self and world.
But as much as there are these infrequent nods to getting older, there has been a more consistent attempt to court a younger market.
Mr. Clinton's consistent attempt to depict Mr. Rich as the victim of overzealous prosecutors or flawed indictments does not pass legal muster.
The problem is the McCain campaign's deliberate and consistent attempt to mischaracterize her record to fit their mythology of her as a pork-killing anti-earmark McCain clone.
After all, other comparable incidents of fraud inflicted grievous personal damage as well--though the news media makes no serious or consistent attempt to measure or take account of this trauma.
When it comes to reproductive health care, the Democrats criticize "the current Administration's consistent attempts to undermine a woman's ability to make her own life choices and obtain reproductive health care, including birth control".
A lively Elizabeth Colbert Busch struck early and often against Mark Sanford's record in Congress and as governor while Sanford hit back with consistent attempts to tie his opponent to Democratic congressional leaders in the only debate in South Carolina's special election campaign.
While I do not advocate the inhumane treatment of any migrants, whatever their circumstances, it is troubling that The New York Times has not been more vigilant in calling attention to the president's and the attorney general's consistent attempts to confuse the issue by referring to all who cross the border as lawbreakers who deserve whatever harsh treatment they receive.
