The phrase "an attempt to split" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort or action aimed at dividing something into parts or sections.
Example: "The committee made an attempt to split the budget into more manageable segments for better allocation."
Alternatives: "an effort to divide" or "a try to separate".
But most Chinese, influenced by the government, are interpreting the Tibetan crisis as an attempt to split China.
Thile's appointment seems like an attempt to split the difference between Keillor's audience and a younger one.
The British thought it "sheer use of blackmail," and the Russians regarded it as an attempt to split the Allies.
America regarded the European Union's attempt to develop its own security and defence arm as wasteful, if not an attempt to split NATO.
To seek to ferret out some presumed leadership of origin and "what demographics they represented" is an attempt to split the protesters and to marginalize the movement, whose power is exactly in its claim to represent 99 percent.
The Sport, which went on sale last week at a base price of $41,545, or $47,735 as driven on Wednesday, is clearly an attempt to split the difference between luxury and performance.
Like any attempt to split humanity neatly into two, the peach/coconut divide is absurdly oversimplified.
The British government has sought to lobby that any attempt to split off euro-denominated clearing would not benefit the EU, with business instead drifting to New York.
But we could make sure the ink is so simple that any attempt to split it open and do things would not work.
Indonesia said it was prepared to send thousands of troops to the province to avert any attempts to split from the union.
They have come up with a second candidate of African descent, Filipp Kondratyev, in an apparent attempt to split the pro-Crima vote.
