The phrase "attempt to surmount" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to overcome challenges or obstacles.
Example: "The team made a significant attempt to surmount the difficulties they faced during the project."
Alternatives: "strive to overcome" or "try to conquer".
It may have helped him attempt to surmount the next challenge: Trying to keep Nadal from winning his serve.
But the slow and elaborate formalities of the proceedings betray the immense difficulties of this brave attempt to surmount the divisions and hatreds that have for so long overwhelmed the peoples of Sudan.The members of parliament refer to each other as "the honourable" and there are endless "points of order", some serious, some frivolous, a nod to Sudan's British colonial heritage.
We conclude that roadway familiarity might have emboldened drivers to attempt to surmount water rushing across a road, that time of day was clearly an important characteristic of the accidents, and that roadway characteristics and sex and age of the drivers seem not to be key contributing factors.
It's a conceit directors Berger, Daniels and Karlyn Michelson commit to rather than attempt to surmount.
Of all the reasons to attempt to surmount the Times' paywall, she ranks fairly low, having long lapsed into schtick.
In an attempt to surmount those challenges, city officials established a new staff position that would be tasked with going to local business owners to educate them about the details of the ordinance.
It remains to be seen whether such attempts to surmount the effects of FAAH inhibition would occur in people who voluntarily initiate the treatment, and whether this would limit the effectiveness of the treatment.
A new program put together by two universities and a small company in Indiana is attempting to surmount these roadblocks by making screening for hearing loss as easy and inexpensive as possible.
He stood on a block beside the one Nikita was attempting to surmount and filmed Nikita as he came rushing forward, leaped into the air, and struck the block feet first, like a hawk, then grabbed the edge and pulled himself to the top.
The lower k0app values for these outer-sphere redox systems is attributed, at least in part, to a reduced number of attempts to surmount the activation barrier (i.e., a reduced nuclear frequency factor, νn) due to the more viscous medium.
12 One recent study attempted to surmount this problem by evaluating the proposed test against a panel of serological and PCR-based methods, 13 but PCR is itself beset with problems.
