The phrase "are scrambling to avoid" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a situation where individuals or groups are making urgent efforts to prevent something undesirable from happening.
Example: "As the deadline approaches, the team are scrambling to avoid any last-minute issues that could derail the project."
Alternatives: "are rushing to prevent" or "are working hard to evade".
While city officials are scrambling to avoid running out of money this year, a state review team is expected to decide soon whether the city requires an outside financial manager to take control.
Democrats, worried about defections in the ranks, are scrambling to avoid votes on expanded drilling and this week canceled a series of Senate committee sessions that could have provided an opening for Republicans.
The Court of Appeals has set a July 30 deadline, and all sides are scrambling to avoid embarrassment -- especially in a year when legislators will be asking voters to send them back for another term.
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Campaign advisers to former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, stung by unexpectedly fierce attacks from Republican rivals on his career as a corporate buyout specialist, are scrambling to avoid a prolonged and nasty battle over his business record before it does lasting damage to the front-runner.
Meanwhile, advertising agencies are scrambling to avoid getting written out of the script.
Up to 2,000 residents of the Calais Jungle migrant camp are scrambling to avoid destruction of their only semblance of a home after French authorities gave them just three days to move out.
Richard J. Codey is scrambling to avoid a court takeover of New Jersey's beleaguered child welfare agency, with barely three months left in his term.
Suddenly all the world's leading teams will be scrambling to avoid the revitalised hosts, rather than the other way round.
The country's business capital is already plagued by political killings, soaring street crime and the Talibanisation of its Pushtun neighbourhoods.With so much at stake the party has been scrambling to avoid disaster.
Spain has been hit especially hard by a slump in home prices, and is scrambling to avoid the fate of Greece, where a ballooning budget deficit has raised concerns about the government defaulting on its bonds.
The warning comes as Washington is scrambling to avoid a scenario where it alone casts a veto in the UN security council against the Palestinian bid for recognition of statehood, which is expected to be formally requested next week.
