The phrase "an effort to tailor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing attempts to customize or adapt something to meet specific needs or preferences.
Example: "The company is making an effort to tailor its services to better suit the needs of its diverse clientele."
Alternatives: "a bid to customize" or "an attempt to adapt".
Was this evidence of an effort to tailor wines for an international audience?
School districts nationwide are increasingly using digital technologies that collect and analyze academic and other details about students in an effort to tailor lessons to the individual child.
However, given the varied interests and concentrations of our students, we make an effort to tailor specific degree requirements to the individual.
His campaign has aimed advertisements on different issues at particular cities in an effort to tailor his message to the concerns of voters.
School districts across the country are increasingly adopting digital technologies that collect details about students' achievements, activities, absences, disabilities and learning styles in an effort to tailor instruction to the individual child.
In an effort to tailor the 'z' exponent of the species-area equation to the different taxa of mediterranean ecoregions, we used information on ecoregion area and the number of species of native plants [1], [26] and vertebrates (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians from the Wildfinder database) [27].
Trump's sweeping ban on travel to the United States, issued without any effort to tailor it to an actual terrorist threat, would impose enormous hardship on tens of thousands of people, mostly Muslims, whose visas would suddenly be worthless.
Unilever spotted an opportunity: its Motions range of shampoos and conditioners is now a hit.The Anglo-Dutch consumer-goods giant is making a big effort to tailor products for African customers: affordable food, water-thrifty washing powders and grooming products to fit local tastes.
Dr. John M. Darley, a professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University, said such actions involve a deliberate effort to tailor the retribution to the crime, often taking into consideration as many relevant details about the offender and the offense as possible.
After years of using customer data to fine-tune their marketing efforts to smaller and smaller groups, retailers are now making a massive and expensive effort to tailor their Web sites and promotions for an even narrower target: an audience of one.
A State Supreme Court justice in Albany yesterday struck down a third attempt by the Governor and the State Legislature to preserve a special public school district for the Hasidic enclave of Kiryas Joel, calling the latest effort to tailor a valid law an act of "legislative favoritism" that endorsed a single religious group.
