The phrase "and striving to avoid" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to prevent or evade something undesirable or negative.
Example: "The team is focused on improving their performance and striving to avoid any mistakes in the upcoming project."
Alternatives: "and working to prevent" or "and aiming to evade".
But it shows him assertive and inventive, successfully striving to avoid a dead end within a signature style.
At the time, artists on both sides of the Atlantic — including Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana, Lee Bontecou and Yayoi Kusama — were striving to avoid traditional materials and techniques.
I conducted all conversations with the opposite sex with my torso hunched in an attempt to widen the distance between their nostrils and my polluted undies, striving to avoid eye contact with my mate pissing himself (figuratively) in my peripherals.
Each of the four men has his own approach to stock picking and portfolio management, but they share at least two key traits that have helped them shine: They stress fundamental stock valuation that includes, but also looks beyond, price-to-earnings ratios, the most widely followed "value" measure; and they play defense, striving to avoid big mistakes that can blow a portfolio to shreds.
This correspondence raises important issues relating to the lack of ground truth against which image analysis methodologies designed to determine atrophy patterns and rates can be assessed; and the increasing importance of striving to avoid potential biases as these techniques become utilised in clinical trials.
The marketers acknowledge those potential pitfalls and assert that they are striving to avoid them.
It's too narrow because there is more to being healthy than striving to avoid death and disease.
The liquor marketers now advertising -- which include Allied Domecq, Bacardi and Brown-Forman as well as Diageo, Frank and Pernod Ricard -- insist they are striving to avoid exposing commercials to audiences other than adults of legal drinking age.
Mr Darling may still be striving to avoid nationalisation, but his quest looks ever more forlorn.
But Novartis, like Black & Decker, is striving to avoid going overboard.
