The phrase "avoid calamities" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing strategies or actions taken to prevent disasters or unfortunate events.
Example: "To ensure the safety of our community, we must implement measures to avoid calamities during natural disasters."
Alternatives: "prevent disasters" or "steer clear of crises".
This approach needs rapid implementation around the world to avoid calamities like that threatened in Ecuador.
Her "words" were then interpreted by a priest to help a suppliant find a way to avoid calamities, especially death.
But even the best of them acknowledge that the technique is an important advance that has helped avoid calamities.
For Trump, the moves reinforce his belief that climate warnings — delivered with increasing urgency by scientists who say policymakers are running out of time to avoid calamities caused by rising temperatures — are fanning false hysteria about the planet's future.
That might be better understood since 2012, when the European Central Bank said it would do "whatever it takes" to avoid calamity.
But it is having to pay a sizeable premium even on these.To avoid calamity, the finance ministry will try to make private placements of debt with international banks.
Rodolfo's post goes to the heart and soul of what we are as a civilization, and demands a most thorough examination to determine if human beings shall ever be able to avoid calamity.
Weather forecasting is supposed to help people avoid calamity, but there came a point in Monday's coverage when the purpose of the updates seemed to be to guarantee that calamity would prevail.
After we met last year I feared that her frank views about, for instance, the way certain US artists engage with their fans, would get Lorde in trouble – to the point where some light media training might help her avoid calamity.
Molly looks at Ben in a new way, realizing that she had married him because she wanted someone who managed to avoid calamity, who could carry her with him through a life of inconsequence.
Most disastrously for humanity is the fact that every human institution in the world has totally failed to implement anything to avoid calamity at this point, and the window of opportunity is closing more rapidly than we really know because our scientists are constantly dumbfounded by how unexpectedly fast many climate change tipping points are toppling already.
