The phrase "an effort to disrupt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an attempt or action aimed at causing disturbance or interruption to a process, system, or event.
Example: "The organization launched an effort to disrupt the illegal activities taking place in the area."
Alternatives: "a bid to undermine" or "an attempt to interfere".
The runner slides aggressively, barreling into the second baseman in an effort to disrupt his throw.
Telephone lines have been cut in an effort to disrupt the group's communications.
He said he was transferred between three different jails in less than a year in an effort to disrupt his activities.
Impossible Foods is one of many companies that are inventing meat substitutes in an effort to disrupt animal agriculture and its significant environmental footprint.
He cast the attacks as signs that the Taliban had shifted to high-profile targets in an effort to disrupt the progress that the American military had made.
He said the insurgents had planted other explosives in an effort to disrupt a large joint NATO-Afghan military operation under way in the area.
Separately, more than a year ago, a federal judge ruled that the First Amendment already gave her the power to quash a subpoena for testimony by a Times journalist, James Risen, in the prosecution of a former C.I.A. official accused of leaking about an earlier effort to disrupt the Iranian nuclear program.
It appears there was an initial effort to disrupt the class, but Professor Landsburg continued to teach and there was no need for University Security officers to take any action.
That's a good thing for the unsettlingly blasé Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, who became the football equivalent of Mrs. O'Leary's cow when a knee injury forced him out of a hyped effort to disrupt the Green Bay Packers' Super Bowl run.
He pleaded not guilty to leaking information about a covert effort to disrupt Iran's nuclear program to a New York Times reporter, James Risen, details of which appeared in Risen's book State of War.
There was less detailed information than usual about the conflict on Friday because Internet access was cut to the entire country for a second day, in what seemed to be a government effort to disrupt the communications of its opponents, although some activists and other residents used the Web through satellite services.
