The phrase "active attempt" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a concerted effort to achieve a goal. For example, "He made an active attempt to save the business, but was ultimately unsuccessful."
However, the high calorific consumption during both seated and activity enhanced video game play highlights the need for an active attempt to restrict snacking whilst playing video games.
"Was this a typo or an active attempt to make the word bigger?" PS: Why is 'smallest' a bigger word than 'small'small
It makes no active attempt to manage care (utilization controls, disease management, coordinating care and so on), because it has not been allowed by Congress to do so.
Impartiality demands an active attempt to create balance, to resist power, to tell the dark side of the celestial tale being pummelled into the minds of undergraduates by the richest City cults.
And yet I wonder: what I wrote above was an active attempt on my part to sympathise with Abdul-Rahman Peter Kassig, Alan Henning, Steven Sotloff, James Foley and David Haines in the last moments of their lives.
Mr. Miyazawa said he did not plan any active attempt to weaken the yen, though he did not oppose a "natural" decline, and he noted that it was difficult to control currency levels.
Get active Attempting to shed pounds through exercise alone can be very hard work.
And our active attempts to seek out minority candidates were ongoing.
It was the outcome of years of increasingly active attempts to change an inequitable power structure.
But active attempts to affirm reproductive rights are not unheard of.
They quash active attempts to immerse ourselves, knee-deep in the bogs and fescue grass of the British countryside.
