The phrase "attempt refused" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that an effort or request was not accepted or granted.
Example: "Despite his best efforts, the attempt refused to gain any traction within the committee."
Alternatives: "request denied" or "effort rejected".
Of the 2,517 housing units in the initial sample, 1,297 were invalid (e.g., vacant, under construction), were unable to be screened after repeated attempts (no one contacted after 12+ attempts, refused screener), or contained no eligible respondent (e.g., no one 25 or more years of age).
Part B, common problems and solution tips, gives dos and don'ts to each of the potential problems village doctors often encounter in delivering diabetes interventions, e.g., breaches to planned diet, increasing BMI, failed follow ups, failed attempts refusing over eating at social events etc.
He managed to obtain a visa on the second attempt, being refused the first time for carrying too much money with him.
If a selected patient was not reached after three attempts or refused, another patient was randomly selected.
If the patient could not be reached after 3 attempts or refused to be interviewed, the subsequent case-patient was sent an enrollment letter and contacted for an interview.
Women will still be able to attempt to refuse sexual advances, and can still try to prevent them by physical means, but a crucial illocutionary form of protection will be closed to them.
"The very attempt to refuse creepiness and use every possible means to stave it off is precisely what makes the awkward, obsessive man creepy," Kotsko writes.
Morris, though, has never been a television personality in any recognised sense - as shown by his attempt, through refusing most interviews and photographs, to remain unrecognisable - and his most important contributions to his shows have always taken place in private, as a writer or the architect of nasty larks.
If you are one of the few people who argues this the same way anti-gay people argue against gay marriage, your desperate attempt to refuse to accept the reality of the world doesn't make you right.
