The phrase "attempting to commit acts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing intentions or efforts to carry out specific actions, often in legal or formal discussions.
Example: "The suspect was charged with attempting to commit acts of fraud against the company."
Alternatives: "trying to carry out actions" or "seeking to perform acts".
An order on "Preventing Violence Against Federal, State, Tribal, and Local Law Enforcement Officers" directs Sessions and the DOJ to review federal laws to determine whether they need to be strengthened, and suggests as potential methods the defining of all new crimes and the raising of mandatory minimum sentences for people who commit or attempt to commit acts of violence against police.
The new charges include conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiring and attempting to commit an act of terrorism across national boundaries, conspiring to provide and providing material support to Al Qaeda and other terrorism-related crimes.
In another development, four Somali men were charged with possessing explosives and attempting to commit a terrorist act after a small blast last month at the main airport in the capital, Nairobi.
Officer Clerge was acquitted of the most serious charge against him, attempting to commit a criminal sexual act.
He turned himself in on Thursday morning in the First Precinct and was arraigned in State Supreme Court on charges that also included unlawful imprisonment and attempting to commit a criminal sexual act.
Clarifies that engaging in consensual sodomy is not a crime if all persons participating are adults, are not in a public place, and are not committing, attempting to commit, conspiring to commit, aiding, or abetting any act in furtherance of prostitution.
The attacker was taken into custody after attempting to commit suicide, Chinese media reported.
Attempts are governed by the Criminal Attempts Act 1981, which states that "if, with intent to commit an offence to which [the act applies], a person does an act which is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the offence, he is guilty of attempting to commit the offence".
"Hunger strikers are not attempting to commit suicide.
As I wrote at the time, this supposed change was actually worthless, as a close inspection of the government's assertions revealed that it proposed to detain someone who never even "attempted to commit any act of depredation or entered the theatre or zone of active military operations" and may only have stayed in a house associated with those who did engage in militancy.
