"distinct effort" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a clear or noticeable attempt or action being made. Example: "She put in a distinct effort to improve her grades and it paid off with straight A's on her report card."
Acting during a Congressional recess, and making a distinct effort to stay beneath the radar of the news media, the administration enacted insidious new rules that make it much harder for states to bring additional children under the umbrella of the program, known colloquially as CHIP.
TAG, the new group, split treatment activism into its own distinct effort, separate from ACT UP's broader political agenda.
Unlike many other music festivals, Outside Lands makes a distinct effort (and is largely successful) at distancing itself from hardcore EDM music.
He makes a distinct effort to go beyond the greatest hits, incorporating less-heralded gems like 2003's "Love Profusion" and "Turn Up the Radio," a cut from Madonna's underappreciated 2012 album, "MDNA," into the mix.
Though Wainwright, who recently tied the knot with longtime partner Jorn Weisbrodt, was a natural choice for the show's lineup, co-founders Brice Rosenbloom, Simon Rentner and Thomas Bartlett (a.k.a. Doveman, who is also serving as the show's music director) say they made a distinct effort to draw as many non-LGBT performers to the event as possible.
While some of the LSE authors used misconception in passing, without defining its use, others made a distinct effort to articulate how they conceptualized the term and, in some cases, openly acknowledged the lack of consensus regarding its meaning (Fisher et al., 2011; Andrews et al., 2012).
Yum chains also will have distinct efforts.
We use a three-tiered equity framework to analyse four distinct efforts to commercialise watershed recharge and carbon dioxide fixation by forests in Meso-America.
Given the important role of DNA methylation in tumor initiation and progression, distinct efforts have been made towards the use of DNA methylation as a biomarker in cancer [3], [4].
As a result of 8 distinct recruitment efforts, 50 workers were invited to participate and 29 agreed.
The neoadjuvant approach is distinct from efforts that simply correlate baseline mutations with relapse-free survival, because relapse data in adjuvant endocrine therapy combine the effect of a mutation/amplification on both prognosis and prediction.
