The phrase "attempt to garner support" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing efforts to gain backing or approval from others for a cause, project, or initiative.
Example: "The organization made an attempt to garner support for its new environmental initiative by hosting community events."
Alternatives: "try to gain support" or "seek to obtain backing."
The Lib Dem politician was joining forces with the Western Morning News to hand out baked goods in an attempt to garner support.
He made approaches to the Soviet Union and, upon being rebuffed, travelled to Hitler's Germany, in another vain attempt to garner support for India's independence.
In another attempt to garner support, JPMorgan executives are planning to run the new brokerage business under the Bear Stearns name, according to a person involved in the merger.
"You can still be a stationery snob if you get thermography," she reassured me.The next morning, when I brought up the topic at breakfast in an attempt to garner support for buying beautiful paper products, I ran into some criticism.
In a statement outlining the role of the foundation, Grant Shapps, the shadow housing minister, admits that "homelessness has not classically been considered as a right-of-centre issue", something critics will say is an attempt to garner support for a traditional Labour concern.
He was also involved in organising an anti-Qatar conference in London at the end of 2017, which was attended by Iain Duncan Smith and described by activists as an "amateurish" attempt to garner support for a coup in the Middle Eastern country.
Every time Sanders attempted to garner support for Clinton, his supporters in the convention hall booed loudly, as they had been doing throughout the evening.
In the lead-up to that 7-0 drubbing, the NYCFC Twitter account attempted to garner support by asking for a shirt exchange.
But Russian officials have attempted to garner support for the US adoption ban by highlighting isolated incidents of abuse, and the cases of 19 children who have died in US care.
The new documents include Feb. 13, 2018, emails between acting Census Bureau director Ron Jarmin and Michael R. Strain of the American Enterprise Institute that apparently refer to administration attempts to garner support for the question from experts.
The rapper, who has helped Bernie Sanders in his attempts to garner support from black voters, said that he was quoting from a recent conversation with a feminist as he pointedly attacked Hillary Clinton.
