The phrase "avoid a standoff" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in contexts where you want to prevent a situation of conflict or impasse between parties.
Example: "To ensure a productive meeting, we must find common ground and avoid a standoff over the budget issues."
Alternatives: "prevent a deadlock" or "steer clear of a confrontation.".
Both countries appear eager to avoid a standoff that threatens to mar relations and, most immediately, to eclipse annual talks scheduled to begin in Beijing on Thursday.
"Both countries appear eager to avoid a standoff that threatens to mar relations and, most immediately, to eclipse annual talks scheduled to begin in Beijing on Thursday," my colleagues Steven Lee Myers and Andrew Jacobs write.
On the taxing side of the ledger, although the House has approved an $80 billion tax cut (which Mr Clinton also vows to veto), Republicans may agree to a smaller cut to avoid a standoff.While the president's wonks are debating budget minutiae, his lawyers are busy polishing another prong of the White House campaign: settling the Paula Jones case.
Polyakov only used hypotheticals, hoping to maintain a delicate balance and avoid a superpower standoff, Dillon explains.
Both sides said they wanted to avoid an ideological standoff over how to combat a slowdown that began a year ago and intensified after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Would the president use a penny-size platinum coin minted with "In God We Trust" and a 1 with 12 zeros behind it to avoid a debt-ceiling standoff with Congressional Republicans?
Sending them back to Hong Kong would help avoid a full-fledged standoff with China of the sort that took place nearly two years ago, when Japan arrested and held a Chinese trawler captain for entering the same waters.
This would provide the government with access to the data while avoiding a continued standoff pitting the government against Facebook.
Democrats argue that the schedule lays out of a path for avoiding a future standoff.
Dillon's father and Polyakov shared attempts at avoiding a superpower standoff, though filled with personal tragedy, were ultimately successful.
As Dillon reminded me, "There were bigger things that went on but there were also people, real people who were out there doing what they could to lessen something like the very real threat of nuclear war". Dillon's father and Polyakov shared attempts at avoiding a superpower standoff, though filled with personal tragedy, were ultimately successful.
