The phrase "an effort to implicate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing attempts to involve someone in a situation, often with a negative connotation, such as suggesting wrongdoing.
Example: "The investigation revealed an effort to implicate the politician in the scandal, despite a lack of evidence."
Alternatives: "a bid to involve" or "an attempt to accuse".
In "Enlisting Data Seized in Raids, Israel Widens an Effort to Implicate Arafat in Terrorism" (news article, May 5), you quote a "senior American official" as saying "Israel cannot choose the Palestinians' leaders".
Graham said he mailed the syringe because he wanted to clean up the sport, but grand jury witnesses have said that Graham did it in an effort to implicate athletes and coaches that his athletes competed against.
While Mr. Janiszewski, 55, a fixture of Democratic politics for more than two decades, remained in seclusion today, allies and enemies said they were shocked and disappointed by articles in New Jersey newspapers saying that he had spent months cooperating with investigators, secretly recording conversations in an effort to implicate others and lessen his own potential punishment.
Calderon (D-Montebello) initially agreed to wear a wire in an effort to implicate other politicians, authorities said.
PD patients may recall specific food consumption at a higher rate than controls in an effort to implicate risk factors.
He added: "I'm getting a bit fed up of this effort to implicate me in some sort of conspiracy".
Donald Re, one of the defendant's lawyers, said in a telephone interview that the government's effort to implicate Mr. Pellicano in the threat against Ms. Busch was "complete nonsense".
Virus-like particles have been observed[4]; however, efforts to implicate an infectious agent by using culture, subtractive cloning and consensus polymerase chain reaction for detection of other viruses found in salmon aquaculture including infectious pancreatic necrosis virus, salmonid alphavirus, infectious salmon anemia virus have been unsuccessful.
So a danger over the coming months is that the new bank will take on a political character that impairs its effectiveness.As for the importance of popular backing, only consider how the Bundesbank defeated politicians' efforts to implicate it in their accounting fiddles.
Ongoing efforts to implicate him may be one reason prosecutors stated during a November hearing that they might expand their investigation.
In an effort to reveal pathways implicated using gene expression data from tumors and normal tissue, researchers initially developed techniques such as over-representation analysis [ 10– 10].
