The phrase "attempt to sever the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is trying to cut off or break a connection, relationship, or bond.
Example: "The negotiations were tense, as both parties made an attempt to sever the longstanding partnership."
Alternatives: "try to break the" or "make an effort to cut the".
During the teen years, your offspring will deliberately attempt to sever the binds that tie them to childhood.
But President Enrique Peña Nieto's decision this month to deploy troops to Lazaro Cardenas marks a new attempt to sever the cartel's economic lifeline by putting a stop to its criminal activities here.
By modulating the spatiotemporal pattern of actin organization, they are capable of switching between different modes of interaction with a particle, either arresting at a concave region and applying force in an attempt to sever the particle there, or extending the cup along the particle surface to identify the very end of the object to be ingested.
The bill is indeed about Congress, in the sense that it attempts to sever the link between money raised and legislation passed.
The Trial Chamber's two attempts to sever the Kosovo case from Croatia and Bosnia cases were probably the best chances, at later stages of the proceedings, to bring at least one of the cases to a conclusion, but these overtures were rejected by the Prosecution, Milošević, and the Amici Curiae (Prosecutor v. Milošević 12 December 2005, para. 7).
Soviet attempts to sever the salient were unsuccessful, and the unit completed its withdrawal by nightfall.
The jumping part went as planned, but Wallach's life was endangered when his character attempts to sever the chain binding him to the (now dead) henchman.
In this case, the father had been a part of the child's life from birth until the child's mother attempted to sever the relationship at age two, arguing that he was a "sperm donor" under the Family Code and therefore barred from ever obtaining legal parentage of his son.
We are close to the customer, regardless of some insurance companies' attempts to sever the traditional broker-client relationship.
In this report we show that phagocytes not only sense the negative curvature of the neck as the putative end of the particle, but also apply force at the neck in an attempt to sever this linkage and close the cup.
His first attempt to sever Mr Brandes's organ on the kitchen table failed, but a "sharper knife" eventually did the job.
