The phrase "attempt to call a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort to make a phone call or contact someone.
Example: "After several failed attempts to call a technician, I decided to send an email instead."
Alternatives: "try to reach a" or "make an effort to contact a".
It is true that there was an attempt to call a central committee plenum in October 1941, when central committee members from the whole country were called to Moscow.
He is battling now against a French attempt to call a conference in Paris next month on the basis of Mr Obama's formula that so annoyed him last month: that the starting point should be the 1967 line, with mutually agreed land swaps and security provisions.
Furthermore, short-sellers are adding to their bearish bets as they attempt to call a top to the stock's uptrend.
Options players have placed some heavy bets against the stock in an attempt to call a top to its uptrend.
Short interest is also building against the security as investors attempt to call a top to the stock's uptrend.
Short-sellers have flocked to this stellar performer in an attempt to call a top to the stock's rally.
While they could attempt to do that by negotiating with Ashley and Easdale, they may attempt to call an extraordinary general meeting to try to oust the present board completely.
Livingstone said the row had attracted attention for "all the wrong reasons", but received short shrift from Johnson's camp after attempting to call a truce.
It was an audio history of The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, from the very moment Jimmy and I started out (1987) to when we attempted to call a halt to it all (1995).
How many of my fellow-Americans have attempted to call a relative or colleague outside of our fine fifty states, only to be met with endless beeps because they failed to dial something called a "country code," and, when they asked around about it, how many had a condescending "friend" explain that each country has a "different one"?
