The phrase "a dangerous effort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an attempt or endeavor that poses significant risks or challenges.
Example: "Climbing the treacherous mountain was a dangerous effort, but the thrill of reaching the summit made it worthwhile."
Alternatives: "a risky endeavor" or "a perilous attempt".
American and Russian submarines used to track one another at close quarters, seeking information and advantage in a dangerous effort to control the ocean depths.
In a dangerous effort to appease the extremist gun lobby, Mr. Ashcroft has reversed standard F.B.I. procedures so that gun purchase records of suspected terrorists must be kept secret.
So it was that, until I began writing this story, I had never seen an extraordinary 1975 CBS News segment by Bruce Dunning '62 about a dangerous effort to rescue South Vietnamese refugees during the last days of the Vietnam War.
A January legal brief by lawyers for Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman — written in part by Viet D. Dinh, a conservative former assistant attorney general in the Bush Justice Department — argued that the charges were a dangerous effort to criminalize conduct protected by the First Amendment.
In response, Norwich surged forward with Surman - brought into the starting XI to replace the injured Anthony Pilkington - curling a dangerous effort just wide of Jussi Jaaskelainen's right-hand post.
Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts and a co-author of the new law, said the spending constraints were "a deliberate and dangerous effort to frustrate increased regulation of the financial industry," including hedge funds and derivatives.
A fire often builds to a definable chaos before firefighters enter it to bring it — with great and dangerous effort — to a manageable order.
The closest they came to opening the scoring was the 25-yard shot that Jay Spearing sent swerving a foot wide of Brad Friedel's left-hand post after Gerrard had teed him up just after the half-hour, though it was Johnson who ended the first half with a dangerous, skidding effort that Friedel did well to stop with his legs.
Magpies keeper Bartosz Bialkowski tipped a dangerous Abdul Osman effort over the bar after the break, before Murray smashed home Notts' second.
But whales worldwide and those who care about them should breathe easier with the demise of this dangerous effort to overturn the global whaling ban.
Gaspard called on the executive to meet him to discuss what the company is doing to "help remediate the damage done by this deeply misguided — and dangerous — effort carried out at Facebook's behest".
