The phrase "attempt to attribute a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to assign a cause, characteristic, or quality to something or someone.
Example: "In her research, she made an attempt to attribute a specific behavior to environmental factors."
Alternatives: "try to assign a" or "make an effort to ascribe a".
What's most galling about the postponement: the crass attempt to attribute a decision that I suspect was inspired by other factors to the disruption caused by the hurricane — a calamity that claimed many lives and caused billions of dollars in damage across the Eastern seaboard.
Leaning on Averroes' Colliget, however, Giles rejected any attempt to attribute a formal role to the female sperm, even if it is conceived as subordinate to the male one.
We also examined the proximity of such hybridization sites to clusters of slow-translating codons, in an attempt to attribute a plausible role to such internal SD sites.
Proxy measures such as self-efficacy are one way of trying to understand the potential impact of an educational intervention on later clinical practice; they are necessary because it is nearly impossible to follow clinical trainees into practice in order to observe their performance, in an attempt to attribute it to the intervention.
After Figes was exposed (following an unsuccessful attempt to attribute the attacks to his wife), one victim, the great historian Robert Service, wrote: "The public interest in this squalid little story is that if someone is wealthy and malicious enough it is possible to tread on the throat of free and open discussion in this country almost with impunity.
The defense could attempt to attribute the swelling to the performance with a vibrator that the woman had mentioned to Himan.
"The attempt to attribute to Israel's leaders acts which contravene humanitarian values is a distortion and is offensive". Natan Sharansky, a minister in Mr Sharon's cabinet, said it was further evidence of anti-semitism in Europe.
This time, though, there has been little or no attempt to attribute the revelations to anti-Catholic sensationalism.
