The phrase "a motion to try" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts when referring to a formal proposal to examine or consider a case or issue.
Example: "The attorney filed a motion to try the case in front of a jury."
Alternatives: "a request to examine" or "a proposal to consider".
Investigators have filed a motion to try to ban the cartoon in the country, Reuters reported.
Ms. Cullman said her group was reviewing its options -- one of which is to try to assemble a majority of six state delegations, necessary to make a motion to try to bring the issue to the floor.
This past March, Grossman was at his desk, working on a motion to try to free Steven, when he saw an old police report on the case that did not look familiar.
As late as January of this year, no less august a political personage than Ms Harman herself introduced a motion to try to exempt MPs' expenses from disclosure under the Freedom of Information law.
In a separate case, a county judge in Bisbee, Ariz., on Monday denied a motion to try as an adult a 12-year-old boy accused of killing his mother.
Today, attorneys for Welch filed a motion to try to throw out Jane Welch's assessment of how much GE pays to support his lavish retirement lifestyle.
McConnell proceeded to go to the Senate floor and use a procedural motion to try to bring up the bill as an amendment to an unrelated bill on China currency that is currently being debated.
Reach in with your finger and make a sweeping motion to try to dislodge the blockage.
Labour is to put forward a notice of motion to try to get back into power.
It was offered for a narrow purpose — as part of an ingenious defense motion to try the Easters separately.
Stokes is then playing with an almost wood-chopping motion to try and belt the offie through cover but can't get it past Smith at extra cover.
