The phrase "a means of avoidance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing strategies or methods to evade or escape a situation or responsibility.
Example: "Procrastination often serves as a means of avoidance for individuals facing difficult tasks."
Alternatives: "a way to evade" or "a method of escape."
Sympathy is an avoidance tactic, a means of negating actually dealing with a situation in favour of giving it an "aww" or a "bless".
Alcohol use, in Rapee and Heimberg's [ 50] model, is construed as an avoidance behaviour or a means of self handicapping [ 52].
And if it is the case that some of the super-rich have been creating dodgy charities as a means of tax avoidance – as Downing Street has claimed – the logical response would be to crack down on dodgy charities.
Through the arrangement, the First Data unit, according to a declaration by an I.R.S. agent, Daniel Reeves, that accompanied the summons request, "clearly markets offshore merchant account services to U.S. merchants as a means of tax avoidance by advertising its services on the Web sites of foreign promoters of abusive offshore tax schemes and products".
The Abir Company entered liquidation in 1898 as a means of tax avoidance and to escape Belgian business regulations.
In 1950, as a means of tax avoidance, he had set up a trust fund for his children (he termed it the "Save the Children Fund", after the well-established charity of that name) into which he placed the initial advance and all future royalties from the Penguin (paperback) editions of his books.
In turn, in many cases, the tolerance of abusive behaviour through means of avoidance or trivialisation of the act can contribute towards the victim maintaining a 'barely healthy' relationship (Dunham and Senn 2000) and towards the establishment of the perception that nobody is being abused.
While self-relevant information usually attracts attention from the reader [ 38, 39], a large body of experimental research suggests that people who are most at risk, have the least attention for the risk information, report the least motivation to change, and subsequently react defensively to the message by means of avoidance and denial [ 21, 22, 25- 27, 29- 31, 40].
Secondly, curbing leakages as a means of enhancing public revenue is very important (eg deducing tax expenditure, combating tax evasion and aggressive avoidance).
