The phrase "an effort to delay" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an action or attempt aimed at postponing something or making it take longer to happen.
Example: "The committee made an effort to delay the decision until all members could be present."
Alternatives: "a attempt to postpone" or "an attempt to hinder".
But those rules made no significant changes, and appear to be an effort to delay compliance.
[C1.] BUYING TIME In an effort to delay a proxy fight with Microsoft, Yahoo is considering a plan to postpone its annual meeting.
Mr. Karadzic's brother, Luka Karadzic, indicated over the weekend that an appeal had been filed Friday in an effort to delay extradition.
"The defendants in T.W.A. 800 know they're going to pay," he said, and have appealed Judge Sweet's decision in an effort to delay payments.
"Chairman Upton's bill is part of an effort to delay, weaken or eliminate Clean Air Act protections of the American public," Ms. Jackson said in her opening statement.
Critics of Poroshenko, who has been dogged by low approval ratings, said he is keen to implement martial law in an effort to delay presidential elections next March.
Governor Perry, a Republican who was involved in an earlier effort to delay the measure's move to the Senate floor for debate, has not decided whether he will sign it, said a spokesman, Gene Acuna.
The mayor and the schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, also noted that the language used by dissenting members and the order of points made in support of the delay were often identical, suggesting that a coordinated effort to delay a vote was underway, two aides to the mayor said.
Department officials said there had not been an intentional effort to delay the release of the new material.
In its brief today, the government said the penalty phase could be concluded quickly, and called Microsoft's proposed schedule "a transparent effort to delay the determination and implementation of a remedy for its illegal acts as long as possible".
"It seems like every day there is a new effort to delay something some how, some way," said Mr. Coffey.
