The phrase "abuse to avoid" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a concept related to using abuse as a means to evade responsibility or consequences, but the phrasing is unclear.
Example: "Some individuals may resort to abuse to avoid facing the consequences of their actions."
Alternatives: "misuse to escape" or "exploit to evade".
Paterno and others in the Penn State chain of command, in Freeh's words, "repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky's child abuse" — to avoid bad publicity for the football program.
"Nobody will ever be able to say again, 'We didn't know.' Nobody will ever be able to say again, 'We didn't understand the implications,' or 'This is best left to the church.' " As in the United States, the Catholic Church in Ireland has financially compensated many victims of abuse to avoid legal proceedings, including Mr. O'Gorman's own settlement for $350,000 in 2003.
Although this is not always a conscious choice, as a result of the trauma they've experienced, abuse survivors may attempt to rationalize, minimize or deny the abuse to avoid the pain of the harsh reality they're experiencing, which can lead to abuse amnesia during the "good times" with their abuser.
It may seem counter-intuitive that individuals who experienced more severe sexual abuse (i.e., sexual abuse with force or penetration) would engage in more sexual experiences than those who experienced less severe sexual abuse; that is, one might expect individuals who experienced severe sexual abuse to avoid sex because of the negative consequences.
For example, prima facie it is not easy to fit binge-purge anorexia nervosa to the model, because such cases often consume excessive amounts of food in one sitting, while subsequently adopting compensatory measures (e.g. vomiting, laxative abuse) to avoid weight gain, and so might not easily fit the restrictive extreme.
He said that family partnerships were often abused to avoid taxes -- not that they were used in general for that purpose.
The UN has pledged to crack down on sex abuse allegations to avoid a repeat of past mistakes.
The only way to escape further abuse is to avoid their own domestic policy mistakes and create a financial block so powerful that it can overwhelm financial speculators.
A deliberate choice is to stay in the relationship despite the abuse, and to avoid exposing the unborn baby to the additional stress that might be provoked by divorce proceedings, custody and support issues, etc. Stress is considered by these women to be more dangerous for the unborn baby, and they regard stress as increasing the risk for premature birth.
It was anticipated that studies may be indexed under either 'disability' or 'domestic abuse' and so, to avoid missing relevant data, 'maternity' and 'disability, and 'maternity' and 'domestic abuse' were searched separately before combining the results.
Girls are molested all the time in India; powerful officials often abuse their office to avoid criminal prosecution; sclerotic courts are painfully slow and often corrupt.
