The phrase "attempted control" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is trying to exert influence or authority over a situation or person, but it was not successful.
Example: "The manager's attempted control over the team's decisions led to frustration among the members."
Alternatives: "attempted domination" or "attempted influence".
Control Method: Georgia has attempted control of small or medium sized nutria populations through shooting and trapping.
Ironically, his favourite thing about me seemed to be my independence, my conviction, my utter lack of giving a damn in the face of criticism or attempted control.
Besides facilitating the invasion process and exacerbating its impact on native species, contemporary evolution often works against attempted control measures.
When this is happening avoidant grievers are suppressing (yellow section) this suppression likely exhausts energy and ultimately leads to the mental representations breaking through attempted control and reaching consciousness (red section).
"Despite millennia of awareness, centuries of attempted control and decades of determined scientific study and legislative grappling," unwanted noise is "almost as much a problem as ever," he writes.
There is nothing in the product that we can perceive on which to rest a distinction, in respect of this attempted control, from other products in common use which enter into free competition, subject, of course, to reasonable regulations prescribed for the protection of the public and applied with appropriate impartiality.
Illegal online trafficking in imperiled wildlife is rampant, and attempted controls are few and largely ineffective.
Controls were frequency matched to cases on 5-y age strata, gender, smoking status, and decade in which they completed the questionnaire with an attempted control-to-case ratio of 2 1.
Difficulties occur when one universal control strategy attempts controlling a plant that is under wide range of operating conditions.
It can be a form of control -- attempting to control how the other person feels about you or how they respond to you.
