The phrase "attempting to harm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is trying to cause injury or damage to another person or thing.
Example: "The defendant was charged with attempting to harm the victim during the altercation."
Alternatives: "trying to injure" or "seeking to damage".
Among the cases cited in court documents was that of a mentally ill 15-year-old who was said to have been sprayed three times while attempting to harm himself.
Paris Aristotle, who has advised successive governments on refugee policy, said if refugees were left on the two islands it was "highly likely that many more men and women will express their despair by attempting to harm and kill themselves".
If these people are not given hope soon, if they can't see that this is leading to an outcome that is decent, we will see more and more people attempting to harm themselves, and attempting to kill themselves".
At one of Mr. Simkanin's Web sites, www.arrowplastics.net, he has posted a warning that "public officials can and often do make the fatal mistake of attempting to harm the servants of God (Exodus 14 9) and inasmuch as the servants of God are required by Ezekiel 3 18-19 to warn the wicked, I, a Christian, do hereby issue this proclamation".
By attempting to harm studiVZ through a meritless California lawsuit, Facebook is arrogantly laying claim to an international monopoly over social networking sites that the facts show it does not deserve.
In addition to the morality of this policy and the justice of "shooting to kill" almost all the time--including young Palestinian teenagers with scissors in their hands who are not attempting to harm the shooter (as was caught on videotape and published on the evening news in Israel a few weeks ago --there is ago --thereestion of the efficago --there a polisy.
Two other teenage girls who knew her attempted to harm themselves the following day.
No visitors have attempted to harm the reliefs, Mr. Holzer said.
She attempts to harm the family in every way possible while all the time pretending to be grateful and affectionate.
Kim Etheredge, the publicist for Owens who summoned paramedics to Owens's Dallas apartment, also denied that her client attempted to harm himself.
If there is a reason to use video to clean up soccer, it surely is to remove from the fray the so-called hard men who systematically attempt to harm an opponent.
