The phrase "attempts 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 investigation revealed that the suspect had made several attempts to commit acts of fraud."
Alternatives: "efforts to carry out actions" or "endeavors to perform acts".
"Serious problems: people joining ISIS, joining terror groups, joining al Qaeda and committing or attempting to commit acts of crime and terror against our nation," he said.
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 house where he lived for most of his life in Shiraz was razed to the ground shortly after the Islamic revolution in 1979 -- an example, like the destruction of the Buddhist statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, of blind religious fanatics attempting to obliterate holy sites to commit acts of cultural cleansing.
(Sexual assault, as defined by the army's Study Guide, includes heterosexual and homosexual rape, as well as non-consensual oral or anal sex, unwanted sexual contact or fondling, or attempts to commit these acts).
Short term, we will also be hurt by terrorist attempts to commit murderous acts.
He was convicted of conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism, conspiracy to commit aircraft piracy and conspiracy to destroy aircraft.
Yet during this period, they are not known to commit acts of terror like Da'esh.
Inchoate offences in English law are offences in England and Wales that cover illegal acts which have yet to be committed, primarily attempts to commit crimes, incitement to commit crimes, and conspiracy to commit crimes.
[ 55] Further, it is a gross contravention of medical ethics, as well as an offence under applicable international instruments, for health personnel to engage, actively or passively, in acts which constitute participation in, complicity in, incitement to or attempts to commit torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
The Federal Torture Act states that whoever "outside the United States" commits or attempts to commit torture shall be imprisoned for not more than 20 years "and if death results to any person from conduct prohibited by this subsection, shall be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life".
It begins with an act of despair as Hester, 40ish estranged wife of reserved, 50ish high court judge Sir William Collyer, attempts to commit suicide (a crime in those days) by gassing herself.
