The phrase "attempting to enforce a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to implement or uphold a rule, law, or policy.
Example: "The organization is attempting to enforce a new set of regulations to improve safety standards."
Alternatives: "trying to implement a" or "seeking to uphold a".
The missionary kingdoms addressed problems of European lawlessness in the islands by attempting to enforce a scriptural code of law.
In the meantime, federal immigration databases should be denied to police attempting to enforce a law that would usurp federal powers.
Libyans are unlikely to be grateful to be bombed by those same western governments attempting to enforce a no-fly zone.
Ripley introduces us to Andrew Kim, "the $4 million teacher," who makes a fortune as one of South Korea's most in-demand hagwon instructors, and takes us on a ride-along with Korean authorities as they raid hagwons in Seoul, attempting to enforce a 10 p.m. study curfew.
Similarly, as the line between a traditional Non Practicing Entity and an operating company blurs or disappears, we should not assume that every small company attempting to enforce a patent is a patent troll.
"While cap and trade failed in the Senate, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is still attempting to enforce a backdoor cap and trade system on the American people".
And in early February the Council dispatched French and West African troops to attempt to enforce a tenuous peace treaty in the Ivory Coast.
One can only imagine how the authorities will attempt to enforce a 100% sign up to the new scheme, even a relatively small number of people failing (or refusing) to register for the card could render the whole system unworkable.
The Observer's literary editor, William Skidelsky, said that it would be "unduly rigid" to attempt to enforce "a strict 50/50 division of genders on the Observer's books pages", but added that he does "try to ensure each week that there is a decent male-female spread in terms both of the authors we cover and the people we get to review them".
For more than a century, higher education followed the doctrine of in loco parentis — Latin for "in the place of a parent" — as they attempted to enforce a Victorian code of conduct of the sort my mother knew.
Under the terms of the bill, any federal agent who attempts to enforce a federal gun law in the state would face a class D felony, which could carry a jail sentence.
