The phrase "as a means of avoidance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing strategies or methods employed to evade or escape a situation or responsibility.
Example: "He often resorts to procrastination as a means of avoidance when faced with difficult tasks."
Alternatives: "as a way to evade" or "as a method of escape".
Republic, the campaign for an elected head of state, has asked HMRC's anti-avoidance team to investigate whether the ruling means the duchy is now "using a highly questionable interpretation of its legal status as a means of avoiding corporation tax obligations".
The cognitive avoidance hypothesis (Borkovec, Alcaine, & Behar, 2004; Sibrava & Borkovec, 2006) suggests that the predominantly verbal nature of worry functions as a means of avoiding potentially distressing imagery.
And if it is the case that some of the super-rich have been creating dodgy charities as a means of tax avoidance – as Downing Street has claimed – the logical response would be to crack down on dodgy charities.
Through the arrangement, the First Data unit, according to a declaration by an I.R.S. agent, Daniel Reeves, that accompanied the summons request, "clearly markets offshore merchant account services to U.S. merchants as a means of tax avoidance by advertising its services on the Web sites of foreign promoters of abusive offshore tax schemes and products".
The Abir Company entered liquidation in 1898 as a means of tax avoidance and to escape Belgian business regulations.
In 1950, as a means of tax avoidance, he had set up a trust fund for his children (he termed it the "Save the Children Fund", after the well-established charity of that name) into which he placed the initial advance and all future royalties from the Penguin (paperback) editions of his books.
About 20% of respondents (and only slightly less than those mentioning limiting partners) reported avoidance of injections as a means of prevention in both surveys.
This is supported by previous studies, which suggest that avoidance in AN is used as a means of reducing affective states [ 35].
Where awareness of condom use as a means of prevention is low, awareness of other safeguards, such as sexual abstinence or the avoidance of injected drugs, is also low.
