The phrase "an attempt to obstruct" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is trying to hinder or prevent something from happening.
Example: "The committee reported that there was an attempt to obstruct the investigation into the allegations."
Alternatives: "an effort to hinder" or "a move to impede".
But I imagine in either case he'll avoid giving a legal opinion as to whether or not obstruction of justice happened or an attempt to obstruct justice happened.
It represents an attempt to obstruct the will of the Commons, he says.
They also accused him of shredding other documents, and of deleting e-mails in the months before he was raided, in an attempt to obstruct justice.
Credit Suisse was forced to pay $200 million, and Mr. Quattrone was sentenced to 18 months for what prosecutors saw as an attempt to obstruct their investigation.
But this distinction is foreign to this case, because the charges and findings in no way turn on an allegation of ostr uction of justice or of an attempt to obstruct justice, in a pending case.
Police are reportedly investigating evidence that a News International executive deleted millions of emails detailing daily contact between NOTW staff and outsiders dating back to 2005 in an attempt to obstruct the phone-hacking investigation.
I have made it plain to all members of the clergy that any attempt to obstruct an investigation of sexual abuse will result in prosecution and punishment".
Former President Richard M. Nixon, in a new book, says he did ask the CIA to block an FBI investigation of the Watergate break-in, an apparent attempt to obstruct justice that led to his resignation, but the CIA refused.
The revelation that Trump pressed James Comey to end the investigation of Michael Flynn before firing Comey indicates an egregious attempt to obstruct justice that has rightly drawn comparisons to Watergate.
So far, though, Trump has stayed his hand, possibly because removing Rosenstein would be viewed as a transparent attempt to obstruct justice by a president who has not only sought to discredit Mueller, but has threatened to "get involved" in the Justice Department's operations.
The international tribunal investigating the 2005 killing of the former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri, left, issued a statement on Friday saying that calls to boycott cooperation with the tribunal constituted "a deliberate attempt to obstruct justice".
