The phrase "a responsibility to avoid" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing obligations or duties related to preventing certain actions or behaviors.
Example: "As a leader, I have a responsibility to avoid making decisions that could harm the team's morale."
Alternatives: "an obligation to prevent" or "a duty to refrain from".
Similarly, we feel that as a newspaper we have a responsibility to avoid the terrorists' propaganda.
"But politicians and the media have a responsibility to avoid creating 'word minorities' among their audiences".
While conceding that university officials had a responsibility to avoid causing panic, parents of victims expressed frustration at the report's findings.
For all of us, there is a responsibility to avoid the intolerance and the coarsening of culture that war can bring.
Action on Smoking and Health, a campaign group, was aghast: "With celebrity comes a responsibility to avoid promoting lethal and addictive products to young people," it said.It is likely to be some time before the tobacco-control treaty signed on Wednesday begins to show effects on consumption in the developing countries, where many thousands of youngsters take up smoking each day.
Does Kurtz think media has a responsibility to avoid this kind manipulation?
Computer practitioners have a moral responsibility to avoid harm and to deliver a properly working product, according to him, regardless of whether they will be held accountable if things turn out differently.
Does a news program have an ethical responsibility to avoid misrepresenting how current its reporters' information is likely to be?
"Now it is predictable, and we all have a heightened responsibility to avoid another tragedy".
Why or why not? –Do video game companies have a moral responsibility to avoid creating games that glorify negative behavior?
It was the second such major EC antitrust finding against Google, after last year's Google Shopping ruling, when the company was warned that having been found dominant in search it had a "special responsibility" to avoid breaching antitrust rules in any market it plays in.
