The phrase "an effort to terminate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing attempts or actions aimed at ending something, such as a project, contract, or relationship.
Example: "The company made an effort to terminate the contract due to repeated violations of the terms."
Alternatives: "an attempt to end" or "a move to conclude".
He told Maurice that before he was born Sarah had stood on a bench; Philip had repeatedly pushed her off, in an effort to terminate the pregnancy.
Harry Wallace, chief of the Unkechaug Indian Nation on the 50-acre Poospatuck reservation, said Mr. Bloomberg's latest salvo was an effort to "terminate our sovereignty".
This is what happened in another case of tardy disclosure, Bank of America's consideration of an effort to terminate the Merrill Lynch transaction and Bank of America's subsequent bailout by the government, neither of which were disclosed until weeks after the fact.
Such self-centered self-immolation augers a potential psychodrama with no good end: an effort to terminate Mueller and his investigation, dividing the country by posing as Mueller's victim.
In contrast, when mechanical breath cycling terminates after the inspiratory effort has ended (machine Ti > neural Ti), dyspnea and expiratory muscle recruitment may occur in an effort to terminate the breath.
Termination by agreement should always be your first option in your effort to terminate an easement.
Also today, Mr. Clinton sparred anew with Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, who is using the gathering here to propose a ban on military uses of space, another effort to terminate American efforts to develop a national missile defense.
"In rejecting Amgen's effort to terminate our license, Judge McGarr has sustained our long-established position and belief in our performance under this agreement," a spokesman for Johnson, Jeffrey J. Leebaw, said.
The Navajo obtained in December a US Department of Justice moratorium on BIA efforts to terminate their permits to keep sheep and other grazing animals.
The burghers of Struisbaai were considered to have played an "exemplary role" in assisting Le Sueur's efforts to terminate the mutiny.
It has been argued that the precuneus is part of an important network subserving consciousness, and that during aversive sensations there may be efforts to terminate self-reflection, resulting in decreased processing in the precuneus (Vogt & Laureys, 2005).
