The phrase "avoid benefiting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing actions or decisions taken to prevent gaining an advantage or profit from a situation.
Example: "In order to maintain fairness, we must avoid benefiting from the loopholes in the regulations."
Alternatives: "steer clear of gaining" or "refrain from profiting".
Even if you're an avid free-marketeer you can't avoid benefiting, directly and indirectly, from such public investments.
Former classmates say Mr. Obama chose not to mention his race in his application to Harvard Law School to avoid benefiting from affirmative action, an assertion that his campaign declined to confirm or deny.
Arlan Suderman, chief commodities economist at INTL FCStone, said there was little way for the White House bailout program to avoid benefiting wealthier farmers given that only 150,000 farmers produce about 90percentt of the nation's crops.
For instance, in his 1894 An Autobiography, he insists that since citizens "cannot avoid benefiting by the social order which government maintains," they have no right to opt out from its protection (Spencer, 1904, vol. 1: 362).
In order to avoid benefiting from the subsidy without creating new employment, the law excludes circulation of workers within sub-companies of the same employer; switching workers between direct or indirect partnerships, and also the situations in which an employer closes his company, opens another one and transfers his workers from the old to the new one.
Both are trying to make as much money as humanly possible, but the Wall Street firms will always have an advantage in expertise and information, and it is almost impossible to avoid benefiting from that advantage.
The state was even able to avoid benefit cuts for pensioners during the recession.
But as a retiring baby boomer generation puts financial strain on Social Security and as most private, defined contribution plans prove to be inadequate sources of retirement income, advocates prefer lifting the cap to avoid benefit cuts.
They say things like, oh, it's just employers avoiding benefits.
As a result of physical activity, 12.46 deaths were avoided (benefit:risk ratio 77).
In effect, he said: "To avoid cutting benefits later, cut benefits now".
