The phrase "attempt to commit the" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used in legal or criminal contexts to refer to the act of trying to do something, often something illegal or prohibited. Example: The suspect was arrested for his attempt to commit the robbery at the bank.
Mr. Farrington accomplishes this casting coup by digitally isolating the actors in the 1948 movie — a thriller about two college students, steeped in Nietzsche, who attempt to commit the perfect murder — and projecting them onto flexible screens onstage.
The story tells a fictionalised account of the Leopold and Loeb case, two young men from well-to-do families who attempt to commit the perfect murder of a 12-year-old boy, and escape the death penalty because of their age.
Attempts are governed by the Criminal Attempts Act 1981, which states that "if, with intent to commit an offence to which [the act applies], a person does an act which is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the offence, he is guilty of attempting to commit the offence".
The Act is quite distinctive in that it penalises abetment of or attempt to commit any of the offences listed in the preceding sections (section 16).
"The investigating team documented what would appear to be an attempt to commit genocide against the Yazidi population," Hanny Megally, chief of the Asia, Pacific, Middle East, and North Africa section of the UN Human Rights Office, told VICE News.
HMRC is clamping down on plumbers and those in other trades who attempt to commit tax evasion, and the sentence given to Careswell will act as a deterrent".
"There are a lot of similarities, and not just in those who attempt to commit suicide, but in the environment they live in.
India is one of the few countries that still regard the attempt to commit suicide as a punishable offense.
In a few days' time, Zuwanie is going to address the General Assembly as a way of heading off an attempt to commit him for trial before the International Criminal Court.
Rafati was found in the bath of his Cologne hotel room by the officials after he had slit his wrists in an attempt to commit suicide two hours before the game.
If you are using inhalants as an attempt to commit suicide, STOP and call the police immediately.
