The phrase "altering to avoid" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes made to prevent a certain outcome or situation.
Example: "The team is altering the design to avoid potential safety issues."
Alternatives: "modifying to prevent" or "changing to evade".
The fact that his speech was altered to avoid making him a complete economic idiot says it all.
If there are any undesired, strong secondary structures, the sequence will be manually altered to avoid such structures.
Bloggers and artists often ask, "how much of a photo do you need to alter to avoid copyright infringement?" Five changes?
The best 15 players in the world would qualify automatically for each draw, while tour schedules would be altered to avoid any clash with the Olympics.
In another case, 10 different accounts were used to send out thousands of posts, many of them duplicates slightly altered to avoid detection as spam.
The best large-scale example is the Trans-Alaska Pineline, builthen the 1970s, whose routing was altered to avoid blocking migration patterns of certain species of wildlife.
The commission has a mandate to consider whether the universal banking model – where retail and "casino" investment arms sit alongside each other – needs to be altered to avoid another taxpayer bailout.
Isaac Bashevis Singer's memoir "In My Father's Court" has been altered to avoid any reference to "Jews" or "Gentiles," which is rather like insuring that a restaurant menu makes no mention of the food on offer.
But while many of the album's sources are as recognizable as the hot-dog jingle, in almost every case, the brand and product name have been omitted or altered to avoid promoting the companies whose ads are being used.
This got around traffickers' trick of importing a precursor chemical minutely altered to avoid regulation and converting it back again.But officialdom is struggling as the criminal businesses speed up, evading regulations by adapting their behaviour: more like big firms than small ones, says Matt Nice of the International Narcotics Control Board, which enforces the UN conventions on drugs.
