The phrase "attempting to exclude" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort or action aimed at leaving someone or something out of a group or situation.
Example: "The committee is attempting to exclude any irrelevant information from the final report."
Alternatives: "trying to omit" or "seeking to leave out".
The Social Democrats and the People's Party have spent 12 years attempting to exclude Haider from power, partly on the grounds that his democratic credentials are suspect.
In other cases, the two species physically interfere with one another (interference competition) by aggressively attempting to exclude one another from particular habitats.
He said Turkey had not invited India to the neighbors summit in deference to Pakistani sensitivities; however, he claimed, Pakistan understands attempting to exclude India from the nascent South Asian regional structures would be a mistake.
In contemporary Europe, populism is attempting to exclude people dislocated by wars, and by capitalism in different parts of the world.
BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith tweeted Wednesday morning that "the Romney campaign is attempting to exclude BuzzFeed from the media pool" and said he "hoped other news organizations won't stand for that".
Therefore, we excluded studies merely finding MRSA in stool culture without specifically attempting to exclude CDI.
A history that has continually attempted to exclude brown people from its landscape.
Six years later, attempts to exclude independent candidates from local elections prompted student protests.
He said the clauses were likely to be unenforceable because they attempted to exclude or limit established employment rights, and imposed penalties.
The Republican vice-presidential candidate, though, specifically attempted to exclude refugees originating from Syria on the basis that they might be terrorists.
Ise, or Watarai, Shintō was the first theoretical school of anti-Buddhistic Shintō in that it attempted to exclude Buddhist accretions and also tried to formulate a pure Japanese version.
