The phrase "an effort to exploit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing attempts to take advantage of a situation, resource, or individual for personal gain.
Example: "The company launched an effort to exploit the new market opportunities that had arisen after the recent economic changes."
Alternatives: "a bid to take advantage" or "an attempt to capitalize on".
Potash described BHP's offer as an effort to exploit a downturn in the fertilizer market.
The argument is an anti-big-government one instead, an effort to exploit fears of creeping nannyism and of an erosion of personal responsibility and freedom.
While many of his earlier charges have had careers that spanned acting, singing and other performing arts, "Victorious" is the first of his shows to make so concerted an effort to exploit those other genres.
In a referendum in 1987 Italians voted to close down the three nuclear power stations then in operation.Faced with such dependence on imports, Italy has been making an effort to exploit the renewable sources found within its borders.
The Orchard, along with the collection's outerwear and other leather goods, may be bought on Burberry.com the week following each new season's show, bringing the collection to the consumer in just eight weeks — part of an effort to exploit the show's exposure and gain immediate sales.
All of this began in the fall, when Mr. Darnell came up with the idea to marry off a millionaire on a show, in an effort to exploit the mania surrounding the hit ABC game show "Who Wants To be A Millionaire".
In the near future, 'Omics' approaches and metabolite profiling can be extensively exploited in an effort to reveal genes and enzymes responsible for cyclization and subsequent modification reactions that take place in diterpenoid biosyntheses of plants, fungi, and bacteria.
We also propose a combined feedback scheme which is based on the hierarchical codebook construction method in an effort to reduce the feedback overhead by exploiting the temporal correlation of the channel.
During method development, a wide range of chromatographic conditions and structurally related positional isomer probe molecules were exploited in an effort to gain insight into the specifics of the separation mechanism.
In an effort to identify SINE compound resistance mechanisms exploited by HT1080 cells, we used gene expression profiling analysis to compare expression patterns between parental and resistant cells.
Marietje Schaake, a Dutch member of the European Parliament, is spearheading an effort to pass export-control laws for exploits.
