The phrase "attempt to transform a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to change or improve something, often in a creative or innovative context.
Example: "The artist's goal is to attempt to transform a mundane object into a work of art through her unique vision."
Alternatives: "try to change a" or "seek to alter a".
DeWitt's characters are caught up in several translation projects, ranging from the standard linguistic variety to the more delicate deciphering of interpersonal communications to a quixotic attempt to transform a film into a guide to life.
"We need a complete examination of this attempt to transform a political culture very different from our own into a democracy -- a form of government never before seen in those ancient lands," Mr. Byrd said.
Mr. FitzGerald has been chairman of the British-listed branch of the company since September 1996, overseeing an attempt to transform a company that, he acknowledged, was once viewed as being slower to change course than a supertanker.
DreamWorks Theatricals, which made its first attempt to transform a movie property into a Broadway show in 2008 with "Shrek the Musical," is now teaming up with Broadway Across America for DreamWorks's first live family touring show based on its "Madagascar" film series, the two companies announced on Monday.
Mr Cameron not only wants to replicate the "big tent" politics of early Blairism, he is also well aware that there are very few Tories who he can trust to be on-message.To an even greater extent than the New Labour "project", this is an attempt to transform a party by a relatively tiny vanguard.
By turns mournful, anxious and serene, and composed with an elegance that echoes the lapidary beauty of Woolf's writing, Mr. Dresher's music is, alas, mostly incidental to this otherwise awkward and inert attempt to transform a literary masterwork into a living work of theater.
The officials, who are still unhappy with the number of fire personnel at the site, have said that the change was an attempt to transform an effort to retrieve colleagues who had sacrificed their lives into a "scoop and dump" operation.
Sila Sveta says the project is ultimately "an attempt to transform an artificial space into a world of living matter".
These are not the actions of an abusive organisation, they are clear attempts to transform a crushingly inert bureaucratic structure into a global rapid response unit.
The hurricane even spared the first phase of a planned five-year, $13 million public art project here called "Artlantic," scheduled to make its debut on Friday, that is attempting to transform a city that has never offered much in the way of public space beyond the famous Boardwalk.
The analysis concentrates on attempts to transform a national economic discourse at the Catching the Knowledge Wave Conference, held in New Zealand.
