The phrase "abandon the attempt" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when indicating that one should stop trying to achieve a particular goal or task.
Example: "After several failed attempts to fix the car, I decided to abandon the attempt and call a mechanic."
Alternatives: "give up the effort" or "cease the endeavor."
Better to embrace Allah, or abandon the attempt altogether.That is a small gripe.
In a world increasingly characterized by exchanges of information, should we not all just abandon the attempt to maintain privacy, and embrace the Panopticon?
The Republican leader in the house, John Boehner, had to abandon the attempt on Thursday night after failing to persuade enough hardline conservatives to support his bill.
In 2012, Australian Penny Palfrey swam 79 miles toward Florida without a cage before strong currents forced her to abandon the attempt, and in June her compatriot Chloe McCardel had a similar bid cut short by jellyfish stings.
(Ayer writes in Language, Truth and Logic that if we are in a moral, or dress colour, argument with someone, we first attempt to convince them of the facts and if they still don't agree we "abandon the attempt to convince him by argument").
Though both sides reported some violence, neither rushed to abandon the attempt to halt the clashes for 48 hours, the condition that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had set for allowing a meeting between Shimon Peres, the Israeli foreign minister, and Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader.
Each time, he missed success by a matter of inches, finally being compelled to abandon the attempts, as the Bonham's engines lacked the power to buck the surging breakers.
The new format was far more difficult for me to "hack" and I abandoned the attempt.
Eventually, he abandoned the attempt, and, instead of a lecture, he gave his students a recommendation.
The agent then abandoned the attempt, as he later told a truth commission amnesty hearing.
Parents like filters, but many found the whole business of setting them up too complicated, so they abandoned the attempt.
