The phrase "attempted from" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an effort to do something from a particular source. For example, "I attempted to find a solution to the problem from online resources."
The two-point conversion after a touchdown is attempted from the five-yard line.
The calls, which Mr. Etra said in court were attempted from Chicago and Springfield, Ill., apparently did not go through.
In this sense it is not neutral and is not attempted from the perspective of removed observation in contrast to a general history of religions.
Now as I allowed in the column, there are various reasons why the Politico venture might not have been nearly as successful had it been attempted from inside the Post's existing structure and culture.
Those who took the latter position, which was essentially that of Kant, attempted from the early 20th century to systematically eliminate teleological language from the biological sciences, with mixed success.
The regime that came to power in a 1972 coup attempted from 1975 to restructure the economy more or less along socialist principles and to disengage from dependence on France.
The play, which Mamet is directing, and which arrives Off Broadway, at the Westside Arts Theatre, on April 13th, dramatizes a child's emotional abuse in a way that no other American play has ever attempted: from the child's point of view.
Before the two women had shown up, she'd been thinking of just going through the motions, replicating with them some of what she attempted from morning to afternoon with their kids — the alphabet singsongs, the vowel and consonant drills, the color charts, the math demonstrations with Popsicle sticks.
In a study conducted by the University of San Diego professor Nadav Goldschmied, which examined field goals attempted from 2002 to 2007 in overtime or with one minute or less remaining in regulation when the kicking team was tied or trailing by 3 points, the success rate of kicks dropped to 66.4 percent from 80.4 percent when a timeout was called before the attempt.
Cloning of polyether polyketide synthase (PKS) genes for salinomycin biosynthesis was attempted from Streptomyces albus.
Two routes were attempted; from the elements and from a mixture of anatase, boron oxide, graphite and magnesium.
