The phrase "any attempt to mitigate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to reduce or alleviate a problem or issue.
Example: "Any attempt to mitigate the effects of climate change must involve international cooperation and commitment."
Alternatives: "any effort to lessen" or "any action to reduce".
What this means is that any attempt to mitigate global warming will be woefully inadequate unless it includes China.
It turns out that the urge to purge — the urge to see depression as a necessary and somehow even desirable punishment for past sins, while inveighing against any attempt to mitigate suffering — is as strong as ever.
The subtext, I guess, is that any attempt to mitigate the effects of global warming is, in reality, part of a vast left-wing conspiracy to strip the American people of their liberty.
Any attempt to mitigate this potential issue must acknowledge that the observatory data will inevitably dominate where the satellite data are scarce.
Therefore, we modified the maps [see panels (c) and (d) of Figures 7, 8 and 9], as described in the "Materials and Methods" section, to extend ΔQ bin difference values or to add neighboring bins where no population is found in an attempt to mitigate any such issues in the fringe regions on the maps.
This study had MRI scans performed sporadically throughout the day in an attempt to mitigate any diurnal variation that may influence intervertebral disc height.
One hundred spikes per second was chosen to retain only more-robustly responding receptors and ligands in an attempt to mitigate any small potency differences that might exist between the species.
Like the Paris Agreement, it's an attempt to mitigate emissions through new rules and standards.
Publicly funded elections are an attempt to mitigate undue private influence on politicians, replacing individual campaign contributions with government money.
