The phrase "a rigorous attempt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a thorough and diligent effort made to achieve something or to solve a problem.
Example: "The researchers made a rigorous attempt to validate their findings through multiple experiments."
Alternatives: "a thorough effort" or "a diligent endeavor."
That said, "The Origins of Political Order" is a rigorous attempt to create a synoptic view of human history by means of a synthesis of research in many disciplines.
Madonna is a clever person and this image is all part of a rigorous attempt to persuade the Malawian courts that her adoption should be allowed to go ahead.
4 An important component of the management of these individuals is a rigorous attempt at characterizing their arrhythmic substrate both for targeted management of arrhythmia risk and to direct genetic testing.
Furthermore, a rigorous attempt to develop a more culturally valid measure of child development in another sub-Saharan African country, by adding new items and discarding those with poor test properties, found that the majority of items from the original Western scale could be adapted for use in the final scale [ 39].
Nevertheless, any rigorous attempt to consider the value of the Gallup poll would probably get you to something of the same answer.
"The Book of Categories" has a dead infant daughter in it, but even that doesn't give it emotional heft: the story is basically a parody of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" — which was a more rigorous attempt to figure out what's genuine and what's language — with a touch of Borges's "Analytical Language of John Wilkins" thrown in.
The best way to advance this agenda is through a detailed and rigorous attempt to work out how governments can back new technologies effectively, and how to replicate the successes that countries like the United States, Finland and Israel have achieved in the past.
Though the legislation's notable feature appears spineless by failing to require businesses make any of these recommended changes to save energy, participants must demonstrate an authentic and rigorous attempt to examine opportunities for reducing energy use and have these findings reviewed at the board level.
The most rigorous attempt at a statistical analysis of the problem, a recent study led by scientists at Dalhousie University, concludes that there are about 8.7 million species on Earth.
Another, more rigorous attempt would be the inspiring project of the American Theaster Gates in Chicago's South Side.
Given her rigorous attempt to rid productions of traditional stage conventions, it is no surprise that Mitchell pauses when I ask what theatre she likes to go to.
