The phrase "an effort to quash" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an attempt to suppress, eliminate, or put an end to something, such as a movement, idea, or dissent.
Example: "The government launched an effort to quash the protests that had erupted across the country."
Alternatives: "a bid to suppress" or "an attempt to eliminate".
The prosecutors released the list of victims in what appeared to be an effort to quash the wildest speculation.
By the end of the month, Assad had sent tanks into Deraa, Banyas, Homs, and the suburbs of Damascus in an effort to quash the protests.
President Hugo Chávez made a theatrical return home on Friday after receiving medical treatment in Cuba, joking in his first public appearance in three weeks in an effort to quash rumors about his health.
Cory Booker sued the city he seeks to run today in an effort to quash two redevelopment agencies set up last month by Mayor Sharpe James and the Municipal Council.
In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a strongly worded denunciation of the video in what her spokeswoman later said was an effort to quash the mistaken belief in some parts of the Arab world that the United States government somehow had sponsored or condoned it.
Mr Panetta's replacement as CIA chief is to be General David Petraeus, the commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan.Bowing to rumours that have been fanned recently by Donald Trump, the White House released the full version of Mr Obama's birth certificate in an effort to quash the claim of "birthers" that he was not born in the United States.
He is one of dozens of political activists who have been arrested over the last year in an apparent effort to quash dissent in the face of an economic crisis.
In recent days, Chinese social media has been consumed by the case despite an earlier effort to quash the conversation through aggressive censorship, a move that only fueled wider interest — and greater fury.
But he said that the government's reaction was disproportionate, a concerted effort to quash political resistance by "instilling fear".
Arrigo estimates she has received perhaps a dozen such emails since David Hoffman, a former federal prosecutor, confirmed what she has crusaded against for a decade: the APA's institutional involvement with torture led to a concerted effort to quash dissent, lie to the public, and silence people like her.
At a meeting between the two leaders in Washington this month, Trump remained silent on the many alleged human rights abuses of Sissi's administration, including the detention and mass arrests of reporters in an internationally condemned effort to quash dissent.
