The phrase "attempt to trigger a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to initiate a response or action, often in contexts related to psychology, technology, or behavior.
Example: "The researchers made an attempt to trigger a response in the subjects by altering the environmental conditions."
Alternatives: "try to initiate a" or "make an effort to provoke a".
Because this isn't an attempt to trigger a general election.
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.
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.
The project's broader goals included an attempt to trigger a change in Italian local development strategies, especially for mountain and inland areas, which would be tailored to the real needs of communities, and based on a sustainable exploitation and management of the territorial assets.
The Gunners have have two bids rejected for Suarez, with the latest offer being a pound more than £40m, in an attempt to trigger a release clause.
Arsenal have made two bids, with the latest a pound more than £40m, in an attempt to trigger a release clause.
Arfi suggested that Sarkozy went with the forgery allegation rather than defamation — typically the go-to legal recourse in France in a case of this kind — in attempt to trigger an investigation that would reveal the source of the document.
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.
Just weeks before, Qualcomm attempted to trigger a ban the sale of Apple's iPhone in China in a continuation of the two firm's global patent spat.
This method attempts to trigger a community's engagement with its own sanitation issues to reduce open defecation.
