"violent effort" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which someone is making a great effort to accomplish something. For example, "She made a violent effort to break the window with a rock."
I particularly liked this slow burning but ultimately extremely violent effort.
He would extend that run in Rome, slicing through the middle of Lazio's defence before crashing a violent effort into the top corner of Etrit Berisha's net.
Samuel R. Berger, the president's national security adviser, warned that the biggest risk was that Mr. Milosevic could marshal some part of the military in a violent effort to roll back the protests.
Imari Obadele, a teacher and writer whose commitment to black empowerment fired a militant, sometimes violent effort to win reparations for descendants of slaves and to carve out, however quixotically, an African-American republic in the Deep South, died on Jan . 18in Atlanta.
Patanjali's Yoga is known as Raja Yoga (that in which one attains to self-rule), and Hatha Yoga emphasizes bodily postures, regulation of breathing, and cleansing processes as means to spiritual perfection (hatha = "violence," "violent effort": ha = "sun," tha = "moon," hatha = "sun and moon," breaths, or breaths travelling through the right and left nostrils).
Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill announced that the administration had blocked the assets of 21 people with suspected links to the Basque separatist movement E.T.A., which Spanish authorities have accused of killing more than 800 people since it began a violent effort to create a Basque nation independent from Spain and France in the 1960's.
At the same time, its violent efforts to combat the uprising have pushed a once peaceful opposition to take up arms, analysts here said.
And there have been almost four weeks of defiance, in the face of the government's repeated, uncompromising and violent efforts to restore the status quo.
To the Editor: President Obama may avoid having to ask Congress for authorization under the War Powers Act by defining our violent efforts to topple Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi as other than hostilities.
The verdicts were a vindication for federal prosecutors, who made a risky decision to apply a 2009 federal hate-crimes law to the sect's violent efforts to humiliate Amish rivals.
Mr. Milosevic's violent efforts at maintaining a Serb-dominated Yugoslavia had predated Mr. Clinton's arrival in the White House, but now he was on the verge of being forced out on the last days of Mr. Clinton's watch.
