The phrase "attempt to aim" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the effort to direct or focus on a specific target or goal.
Example: "In his speech, he made an attempt to aim for a more inclusive approach to policy-making."
Alternatives: "try to target" or "make an effort to focus".
The defense was again attempting to take aim at her son, Lee Anthony.
It was not clear if this last-minute fighting was an attempt to gain ground or was aimed at undercutting the agreement even before it could take effect.
Heading heavenward, it would attempt to collect everyone aiming for earth.
The move also comes less than a week after China made an unsuccessful attempt to revive talks aimed at persuading the North to give up its nuclear capabilities.
The 48-year-old MP for Rutland and Melton, who says his attempt to succeed Michael Howard aims to "bang some heads together" and rescue the Tories, risked an interview with the Spectator magazine to generate momentum for his campaign.
In World War II a bombing decoy was constructed on top of Black Down at Beacon Batch in an attempt to confuse bombers aiming to damage the city of Bristol, and piles of stones (known as cairns) were created to prevent enemy aircraft using the hilltop as a landing site.
But with talks stalled, both sides have warned that they could abandon discussions and attempt to reach their aims without a formal deal.
While the two sites have identical names and similar objectives, they attempt to achieve their aims in rather different ways, and both can provide useful case studies in the approaches that can be successfully applied in online science communication.
This kind of view needs to answer to the problem of how to ensure that politicians, administrators and experts actually do attempt to realize the aims set by citizens.
So important was energetics for Duhem, that his work in the history and philosophy of science has been viewed as an attempt to defend its aims and methods (see Lowinger 1941).
