The phrase "attempts upon" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is making efforts or trying to achieve something, often with a sense of intrusion or aggression.
Example: "The detective reported several attempts upon the suspect's life, raising concerns about his safety."
Alternatives: "attempts at" or "efforts to".
That is just what they were: trials, or attempts upon himself.
Chekhov's privacy is safe from the biographer's attempts upon it - as, indeed, are all privacies, even those of the most apparently open and even exhibitionistic natures.
Several scenes within the film depict violence, torture and cruelty toward animals, leading to controversy and censorship attempts upon completion of the film.
Standard-sized females did not avoid small males, which is probably because of size-dependent abilities to resist male mating attempts upon encounter.
We shall explore the latter in more detail, but first let us address the remainder of Brassington's attempts upon the free rider argument.
The recent introduction of smoke-free policies in Australian mental health facilities [ 30] provides the opportunity for smokers to temporarily abstain from cigarettes in a supportive environment, and may facilitate sustained cessation attempts upon discharge [ 2, 31].
The conversation ends, next as a bold nomad attempts an attack upon Sunny.
She had narrowly escaped an assassination attempt upon her return to Pakistan two months ago.
The book opens with a chronicle of her return to Pakistan in October after eight years of exile and the assassination attempt upon her return.
In February 1571 the Humiliati, a corrupt monastic order of Milan, was suppressed on account of an attempt upon the life of the archbishop, Cardinal Borromeo.
Wells said that he saw Tono-Bungay as a book on "Dickens-Thackeray lines" and that "I shall never come as near to a deliberate attempt upon The Novel again as I did in Tono-Bungay".
