The phrase "assiduous attempts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe persistent and diligent efforts made towards achieving a goal or task.
Example: "Despite numerous setbacks, her assiduous attempts to complete the project were commendable."
Alternatives: "diligent efforts" or "persistent endeavors".
For some months now, the national scandal at whose center the silent Lt. Col. North sits has mocked assiduous attempts of journalists & others to give it a name.
The New Yorker, January 26 , 1987P. 21 For some months now, the national scandal at whose center the silent Lt. Col. North sits has mocked assiduous attempts of journalists & others to give it a name.
By Jonathan Schell The New Yorker, January 26 , 1987P. 21 For some months now, the national scandal at whose center the silent Lt. Col. North sits has mocked assiduous attempts of journalists & others to give it a name.
You will not have heard of it, for despite assiduous attempts by its authors – House of Commons officials not fully familiar with the low ways of the Westminster media, or at least lacking the bait of easy excitement – it has been almost entirely unreported.
The need for improved recording in England suggests that, for the present, increasing rates are welcome because they probably reflect more assiduous attempts to record safety events.
In the current study, two in five identified smokers enrolled into the scheme, a proportion which could have potentially increased with more assiduous attempts to contact all smokers. 2 None the less, enrolment rates were higher than those achieved in the aforementioned Scottish study, which reported one in five smokers enrolling [ 11].
Some Democrats say Latino voters merely responded to an assiduous attempt by Mr. Pataki to get their vote -- an effort that included a television commercial with him speaking Spanish and the opening of an Amigos de Pataki outpost -- but that Latinos remain Democrats at heart.
I recommend you counter that inclination towards self-involvement with a deliberate and assiduous effort to consider others.
So assiduous did Straw's attempts at "engagement" become, the British ambassador to Egypt warned him he was engaging for the sake of engagement, and that there was no prospect of Britain being able "to influence the Islamists' agenda".
Other news organizations cannot be faulted for echoing our disproportionate treatment of the story in their own assiduous and voluminous follow-up attempts to fill in any blanks.
Author Brian Robinson, who traced the development of Royal Maundy, suggests that after the Restoration, his son Charles II attempted to gain popularity by assiduous attendance (and distribution of money) at the service.
