The phrase "an effort to blame" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing attempts or actions taken to assign blame to someone or something.
Example: "In an effort to blame the failure on external factors, the team overlooked their own mistakes."
Alternatives: "a move to assign blame" or "an attempt to hold responsible".
"There's been an effort to blame you for all of this," said Mr. Frank, the ranking Democrat on the committee.
Immigrants, legal and illegal, have thronged the Capitol to protest the bills, which they say are unconstitutional and racist and an effort to blame immigrants for the state's economic morass.
The official emphasized the military requirement of keeping the Iraqis from setting oil fields on fire, from flooding the southern marshes to slow an American assault and, in particular, from launching chemical or biological weapons at coalition forces, at an American ally in the region or even against their own people in an effort to blame the United States for attacks on civilians.
A Florida man in West Boca Raton is in jail after allegedly robbing a Pizza Hut delivery man, only to come forward later as a witness in an effort to blame his cousin.
On the other hand, it is possible that I am grasping at straws in an effort to blame institutional racism, and perhaps I am too slow to face up to the power of personal racism.
He kicked off his campaign by fumbling an effort to blame a horrific crime on Brown's efforts to reduce prison overcrowding, building a news conference around an offender who was released more than a decade before Brown took office in 2011.
In the short run, Trump's vacuousness means he has nothing to offer except a laughable effort to blame the Democrats for what has happened.
Republicans are now mounting a concerted effort to blame Democrats for the dire CHIP situation in the same way Democrats spent the past few months heaping blame on Republicans for not renewing the program long-term (even though Democrats disagreed with the GOP's strategy to pay for a renewal).
It's all part of an election-year effort to blame him for rising prices at the pump – which he has almost nothing to do with – and to promote the industry-pleasing Republican solution, which is more drilling in more places.
Her party's candidate, Fearghal McKinney, a former local TV star, has rebuffed Sinn Féin's slightly pathetic effort to blame him for their likely loss of a seat.
NBC executives continued Tuesday to work toward a financial settlement, though some indicated increasing impatience with Mr. O'Brien's effort to blame the network for the three-car pile-up in late night.
