'hasty effort' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe when someone is trying to do something quickly and with little thought. For example, "She made a hasty effort to complete her project, but it wasn't good enough to pass."
But these were errors, he said, not a hasty effort at a cover-up.
Despite WNET's hasty effort to mollify David Koch, "Park Avenue" apparently so offended him that he cancelled his plan to make a large donation.
What little there is will likely be used to pay for the administration's ill-conceived and hasty effort to build a missile shield.
The president already faces criticism for a hasty effort to give an amnesty to right-wing paramilitaries, who have a murderous past and links to some army officers.Perhaps the weakest part of the security strategy is its approach to the civilian population in guerrilla areas.
So did they think the stumble was because of the ill-fated "47 percent" slip of the lip, or the hasty effort to gain a political edge after the death of an American ambassador in Libya, or more problematically, a campaign that can't seem to stop pratfalling no matter what the news?
One consequence of what happened yesterday will be some hasty efforts to repair the diplomacy.
Or, there may be hasty efforts to write a new bill from scratch.
While heroic, the hasty efforts resulted in a building that was never a complete barrier to radiation and that has been in danger of collapsing for years.
As French commanders had been almost exclusively focused on their own offensive plans, their hasty efforts to bolster the defenses of Verdun were very nearly too late.
He made hasty efforts to recover before the run-off, scheduling a nationwide referendum on a proposal to switch the electoral system from party lists to single-member districts—a demand made by Paweł Kukiz, a former rock star who won 21% of the vote in the first round.
However, with at least six deaths and hundreds of casualties in protests so far, these hasty efforts are unlikely to appease protesters or those in the government and judicial system who oppose Morsi's plans.
