The phrase "actual attempt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a genuine or real effort made to achieve something.
Example: "Despite the challenges, her actual attempt to solve the problem was commendable."
Alternatives: "genuine effort" or "real endeavor".
It was not clear if the battle was an actual attempt at a coup.
Obviously, added Mr. Mones, there are many cases in which such venting does not presage an actual attempt to kill.
It is unclear whether this is a symbolic gesture, or an actual attempt to control and administer the territory.
What if an actual attempt on John F. Kennedy's life, shortly after his election to the White House, had succeeded?
This is more a gesture of modesty than an actual attempt to cover up: the washcloth is about the size and thickness of a dishrag.
The rocket-propelled grenade that had been fired at the building in October was more like a warning than an actual attempt on their lives.
Strange to say, actual attempts to talk to businesspeople, like this excellent McClatchy report, don't find anything like that.
The point is, instead, to create the appearance of action, thereby undercutting political support for actual attempts to help families in trouble.
Some observers, noting the recent spate of actual, attempted, and threatened assassinations of judges, perceived a touch of this-worldly incitement; Senator Frank Lautenberg, of New Jersey, suggested that DeLay might have violated a statute outlawing such threats against federal judges.
Painstakingly selected from more than 20,000 subjects, the 400 images featured record the surveying, planning, reconnaissance expeditions and actual attempts by the Society and the Alpine Club to conquer Everest from 1921 onward.
Of the twenty-eight men who have served as President since 1860, four, or 14.3percentnt, have been murdered while in office, and there have been credible threats or actual attempts directed against most of the rest, including all the recent ones.
