The phrase "attempt to decree" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to establish or announce an official order or decision.
Example: "The council's attempt to decree new regulations faced significant opposition from the community."
Alternatives: "effort to mandate" or "try to establish".
Just four days ago, the Muslim Brotherhood kicked off a wave of protests against the military's increasingly explicit attempts to decree for itself special powers and protections under the future constitution.
"I don't accept anybody coming here to decree anything.
The protest came days after conservative lawmakers' vehement opposition blocked an attempt to cement the decree's provisions in legislation.
Johanna Schwartz's empathetic and emotionally charged documentary follows Malian singer Khaira Arby and her band of musicians as they attempt to defy the decree by staging an open-air concert, an act of inspirational defiance which puts them in grave danger.
Monsanto had spent $50,000 in bribes in an attempt to bypass a decree requiring an environmental assessment review for its genetically engineered cotton.
Khaled Ali, a human rights lawyer, said he had filed one of several lawsuits asking the courts to attempt to overturn Mr. Morsi's decree.
Mr. Viana immediately appealed the ruling, which he described as an attempt "to win an election by decree that can't be won at the polls".
In a television interview, Mr. Morsi's spokesman, Yasser Ali, stressed that the expanded powers would last only until the ratification of a new constitution in a few months, calling the decree "an attempt to end the transitional period as soon as possible".
But the Roman Catholic Church has no place for women among its clerical ranks, as the Vatican stated forcefully over the summer when it decreed that the attempt to ordain female priests is to be considered one of the most serious crimes against church law.
