The phrase "constitute an effort" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to make an attempt or exert oneself towards a particular goal or task. Example: Completing this project will constitute a major effort on our part, but the end result will be worth it.
Wang flatly dismissed the notion that an Australian decision to buy submarines from Japan would constitute an effort to contain China's rise.
Since then, the special counsel has begun examining Mr. Trump's actions, including his firing of Mr. Comey, and whether they constitute an effort to obstruct the investigation itself.
The contributions also constitute an effort at deepening the debate that has surrounded the courtas actions during the last few years.
More recently, Marilyn McCord Adams's books on theodicy(Adams 2000, 2006) and Eleonore Stump's Gifford Lectures (Stump 2010) constitute an effort to consider the a priori problem of evil from within the context of a ramified (and thus in this case more robustly Christian) kind of natural theology.
Egypt's bids for the two soccer tournaments constitute an effort to repair the country's image badly tarnished by its abysmal human rights record.
An increase of these cells in patients with SLE might thus constitute an effort of counter-regulation within the disturbed immune system of SLE patients.
This constitutes an effort to design algorithms that are applicable in the presence of uncertainty in the definition of the instance.
Critical in the case against Mr. Quattrone will be whether an e-mail message he endorsed, directing department members at First Boston to follow the firm's document-retention policy, constituted an effort to obstruct a government investigation.
The case against Mr. Quattrone, who helped take companies public during the boom, hinges on whether an e-mail message he endorsed, directing department members at Credit Suisse First Boston to clean up their files, constituted an effort to obstruct a government investigation.
In a controversial 1950 report, curators at the National Gallery in London characterized restoration as constituting an effort to present paintings "as nearly as possible in the state in which the artist intended them to be seen".
But what constitutes an effort to live? "Babies are challenged with their first breath, so they will cry and try to breathe, they will gasp, and then some have a good heart rate," Kourembanas said.
