The phrase "avoid challenging" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when advising someone to steer clear of difficult or confrontational situations or tasks.
Example: "In order to maintain a peaceful environment, it's best to avoid challenging discussions during family gatherings."
Alternatives: "steer clear of difficult" or "refrain from confrontational".
What is more, some Western academics and NGOs avoid challenging these traditions because they want to appear respectful of diversity.
Eliminating less demanding courses was expected to remove an excuse that schools might use to avoid challenging disadvantaged students to strive for college eligibility.
"Although polite culture put women on a pedestal to avoid challenging the prerogatives of men," Howe writes, "it represented in important respects an advance over the subjugation of women common in premodern society".
According to a message posted on the official Twitter feed of the Canadian boat, the ships "slowed down a bit" on Thursday night to avoid challenging the Israeli Navy in the dark.
In a fixed mindset, you avoid challenging situations that might lead to failure because success depends upon protecting and promoting your set of fixed qualities and concealing your deficiencies.
Note the implication: The way it could have been avoided was for Congress to avoid challenging her.
Clark Gillies could fight so well that opponents avoided challenging him.
He even devised a diplomatic answer that avoided challenging the existence of God.
Another critic derided such reporters as "pussycat vigilantes" because they avoided challenging rich or powerful Pakistanis, whose Western-style lifestyles go unexamined.
When he did at last speak out, he avoided challenging power – either speaking in vague terms or focusing on problems for which powerful interests are not responsible.
Both men want more export pipelines built in Russia to ease bottlenecks, but where Mr. Khodorkovsky has advocated private projects to compete with Transneft, the state pipeline monopoly, Mr. Alekperov has avoided challenging Transneft.
