The phrase "a promising effort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an attempt or endeavor that shows potential for success or positive outcomes.
Example: "The team's presentation was a promising effort, showcasing innovative ideas that could lead to significant advancements in the project."
Alternatives: "a hopeful attempt" or "a encouraging endeavor."
Meanwhile, a promising effort to deal with troubled banks appears to have been sidetracked or at least slowed.
These seamy doings have helped spark a promising effort by Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts, a nonprofit advocacy group, to persuade the State Legislature to approve a constitutional amendment that would scrap competitive partisan judicial elections.
Page A27 ONE ROADBLOCK TOO MANY FOR G.M. In an Op-Ed article, William J. Holstein, the author of a book on General Motors, argues that the Obama administration's intervention threatens to derail a promising effort (led by its now former chief executive, Rick Wagoner) to transform the auto company.
When Martin Luther King Jr. High School opened in the shadow of Lincoln Center in 1975, it was seen as a promising effort to integrate white, black and Hispanic students in a thriving neighborhood that held one of the city's cultural gems.
Recently Hobbs et al. [ 40] made a promising effort to classify patient's expectations for THA by using the ICF-framework.
While OCRe is a promising effort, its representation of study design is far from comprehensive, and it completely lacks a model for trial results.
Nor should we fault any promising effort, by foundations or N.G.O.s or governments, to mitigate global warming or adapt to it.
His preparation has been quiet, with a few defeats over hurdles followed by a more promising effort over fences after the weights were published - the kind of preparation we have seen from a handful of Irish-trained National winners in recent years.
These include a messy, but promising, effort to devolve power to the local level, and the creation of elected councils with fixed quotas for women representatives.
The work of the Peace Management Initiative PMII) was highlighted as an innovative and promising effort in Jamaica.
But according to an analysis by The Texas Tribune, a high-dollar payout does not guarantee a promising election effort.
