"attempt to trigger" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are trying to cause or provoke an action, reaction, or feeling. For example, "He attempted to trigger a bidding war between two rival companies."
Because this isn't an attempt to trigger a general election.
In an attempt to trigger more defections, Guaidó is canvassing military bases, offering amnesty to troops who switch sides.
Iraqi Shia leaders appealed to their supporters to show restraint yesterday after two deadly blasts targeted their religious centres in an apparent attempt to trigger civil war.
Masutha denied medical parole to Clive Derby-Lewis, a far-right politician who masterminded the 1993 assassination of Communist party leader Chris Hani in an attempt to trigger a race war.
"I wanted to get away from the European-looking faces that dominate advertising in Venezuela in an attempt to trigger people into thinking about the reality of the place we live," Mr. Guerrero said.
United's information is that earlier this summer a forged email, purporting to originate from Old Trafford and reputedly confirming their interest in a player, was sent to another club in an apparent attempt to trigger a rival bid and increase the price.
Senior figures are also calling for any attempts to trigger the reselection of MPs this year to be ruled out to help calm divisions.
Arsenal attempted to trigger this with a bid of £40,000,001 but Liverpool insisted that it was not an automatic release clause and that he would not be sold.
Cable was forced to disown his friend Matthew Oakeshott when the Lib Dem peer attempted to trigger a challenge to Clegg in the wake of their hammering in the spring elections.
The other attraction of this procedure, for Labour, is that if May wins, Jeremy Corbyn won't feel then obliged to back a second referendum on the ground that attempts to trigger a general election have failed.
He is represented by a team of prominent London lawyers – David Greene, a partner at Edwin Coe solicitors, and Dominic Chambers QC of Maitland Chambers – who were successful in the supreme court challenge over the government's attempts to trigger article 50 without a Commons vote.
