The phrase "thwart an attempt" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to describe something preventing or blocking someone from attempting something. For example: "The security guards were able to thwart an attempt to break into the museum."
A bid by HBOS might thwart an attempt to buy Abbey by Santander Central Hispano, the biggest bank in Spain and Latin America.
The author is especially critical of Mr. Summers, his former colleague in the Clinton White House, who helped thwart an attempt to regulate derivatives in the waning days of Mr. Clinton's second term.
In November 1960, already a major general, he helped thwart an attempt to depose the country's president, Ngo Dinh Diem, who had the strong backing of the United States at the time.
However, the Home Secretary indicated she had been taken by surprise by allegations that the peer's brother, the late Sir Michael Havers, attempted to thwart an attempt to expose paedophile activity.
Lee, an Irish psychology graduate whose range of services include S&M and bondage, said she was also taking the legal challenge to thwart an attempt to introduce a similar law criminalising the consumers of sex in the Irish Republic.
Democrats in Albany plan to thwart an attempt by the Republican State Committee to knock Senator John McCain off the presidential primary ballot in much of upstate New York, injecting a new level of partisanship into what had largely been a family feud among Republicans.
New York law allows deadly force in self-defense to thwart an attempted robbery.
Kiir said that he had acted to thwart an attempted coup, but his move also seemed like a preëmptive attack by the President against his adversary.
The situation gets violent when the expert has to thwart an attempted kidnapping.
Police thwarted an attempt to storm the building.
The police thwarted an attempt to fire an antitank weapon at the consulate in June 1999.
