The phrase "a persistent effort to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a continuous and determined attempt to achieve a specific goal or outcome.
Example: "The organization has made a persistent effort to reduce its carbon footprint over the past decade."
Alternatives: "a continuous attempt to" or "an ongoing endeavor to".
More troubling is a persistent effort to establish underlying reciprocities between the Nazis and the Jews.
Nobody needs to point out that he is black, but there's a persistent effort to exaggerate other differences, to de-Americanize him.
Eugene Gilbert's professional life is marked by a persistent effort to escape Teendom, as it is sometimes horribly called, and an equally strong inner pull toward that which he would flee.
Here's one thought: much of U.S. policy in Iraq -- delaying elections, trying to come up with a formula that blocks simple majority rule, trying to install first Mr. Chalabi, then Mr. Allawi, as strongman -- can be seen as a persistent effort to avoid giving Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani his natural dominant role.
There has been a persistent effort to understand the epidemiology of S. aureus by typing the infective isolates, for which a number of molecular methods are currently in practice.
His history seems largely a halting, but persistent, effort to raise his reason above his animality.
"We ought to be ready for a long, continued, persistent effort to restrain our water use," Brown said.
"We ought to be ready for a long, continued, persistent effort to restrain our water use," Brown said, adding that conservation efforts would be "voluntary".
"We ought to be ready for a long, continued, persistent effort to restrain our water use," Brown said, adding that conservation efforts would be "voluntary". Lawmakers, farmers and activists have been urging the governor to take the step for weeks, according to The Times.
"The record," Mr. Tenet said then, "will show a keen awareness of the threat, a disciplined focus and persistent effort to track, disrupt, apprehend and, ultimately, bring to justice bin Laden and his lieutenants".
DuPont's lawyer Thomas Sager said Kolon had mounted a "concerted, orchestrated and persistent effort" to steal confidential information.
