The phrase "attempts at maintaining" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts or endeavors to keep something in a certain state or condition.
Example: "The organization has made several attempts at maintaining a positive work environment for its employees."
Alternatives: "efforts to sustain" or "endeavors to uphold".
Despite Mr. Biederman's attempts at maintaining a lower profile, his relationship with the Giuliani administration kept deteriorating.
But, despite such attempts at maintaining calm, the US has also strengthened its missile defence capabilities on its west coast.
Rome adroitly conveys Roz's commendable attempts at maintaining a professional facade, as well as the emotional needs that lead her close to ethical transgression.
Such outbreaks of bittersweet sentiments are perhaps an expression of China's strong interest in its own history, or attempts at maintaining a sense of cultural continuity albeit a variant that favors one's personal experience of the past.
However, this latest development in the spying saga -- that the NSA has been aiming its surveillance activities at the citizens of allied countries, including France and Germany -- has thrown a kink into the Obama administration's attempts at maintaining a cozy relationship with its foreign allies.
"What's great about Andrew's writing," says the star, "is it upholds [Blanche's] attempt at maintaining her own dignity through denial".
The period includes the failed attempt at maintaining authoritarian control over Kosovo and its majority population of ethnic Albanians; NATO's air war, which did little to halt the Milosevic offensive until bombs fell on Belgrade, the Serbian capital; and the revolution from below in which the Serbian people finally voted him from power and then took it from him when he refused to go.
Russia has justified sales to both sides as an attempt at maintaining balance in the region.
That is a sampling of our attempt at maintaining spiritual health when our schedule doesn't facilitate the traditional routine many Christians undertake.
The Republicans in Congress are actually enablers for this mindset and their worn mantra of tax cuts for the wealthy are profiting from their loyalty and are caught in the untenable position of either following Rush Limbaugh and remain loyal to Corporate greed and corruption or risk going against the GOP's monolithic attempt at maintaining the status quo.
The regime has toned down its rhetoric in recent days as both sides moved to defuse tensions on the peninsula, but Kaesong's de facto closure is a serious blow to Seoul's attempts to maintain at least some form of engagement with its neighbour.
