"make active efforts" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to actively put in effort or take action towards achieving a goal or desired outcome. Example: The government has pledged to make active efforts in reducing carbon emissions and promoting sustainability.
"Minority voters can be won away from Labour, but only if you make active efforts, including addressing their concerns.
"As an American citizen, I request the U.S. government to make active efforts so I can be pardoned and return home," he said in the interview, which The Choson Sinbo said took place on Friday.
"While mentioning that moving toward the future without forgetting history is the basis for Korea-Japan relations, I emphasized that Japan needs to make active efforts over issues stemming from" colonial rule, Mr. Lee said.
[XI] The agreeing sides uphold the strict observance of generally recognized principles and norms of international law against any actions aimed at exerting pressure or interfering, under any pretext, with the internal affairs of the sovereign states and will make active efforts in order to strengthen world peace, stability, development and cooperation.
We in the scientific community must make active efforts to ensure that graduate students of all backgrounds have similar opportunities to visualize themselves as scientists by making sure they have access to people they can relate to.
It is not clear whether priests and other religious leaders in Nepal hold such beliefs, or make active efforts to refute them, or are passively accept them.
But the hate has become more visible in recent years, and the company has made active efforts to abate it.
And yet a brochure seen by the Guardian suggests Renewal's 50% owners Incorporated Holdings Limited (IHL) has been making active efforts to sell its access to the development.
Movements like Pride in London and organisations such as Stonewall are making active efforts to expand their work within BAME communities, but progress will only happen when the LGBT community, young and old, black and white, remembers everything it took to fight for what we have today.
Contrary to Borat's anti-Semitic antics, the Muslim-majority country makes active efforts to demonstrate open-mindedness to all religions.
Uber has obviously had its fair share of issues with fostering an inclusive culture, they've made some public efforts to showcase that the company was making active efforts to promote internal change and they seem to at least be having a more peaceful 2018 than 2017 — in terms of news surrounding the company's culture.
