The phrase "avoid devastating" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the need to prevent or steer clear of something that could cause severe harm or destruction.
Example: "To ensure the safety of our community, we must take measures to avoid devastating consequences from natural disasters."
Alternatives: "prevent catastrophic" or "steer clear of destructive".
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D). said the extension was critical to avoid "devastating" economic consequences.
Surgical approaches to tracheotomy are designed to minimize trauma, establish a mature tracheocutaneous fistula, and avoid devastating postoperative complications, such as accidental decannulation.
The new lab will train economists to be more historically literate so they can better contribute to policy debates and help avoid devastating economic crises.
The government and most experts have long argued that by catching breast cancer early, screening can save lives and help women avoid devastating radical surgery.
Island nations that took part in the talks argued that an even tougher mark of 1.5 degrees Celsius was needed to avoid devastating sea-level rise.
To avoid devastating global warming no new fossil fuel projects can go ahead.
But the Green New Deal is also about more than avoiding devastating temperature rise, and getting to net-zero emissions by 2030.
"Only 20% to 25% percent of global proven oil reserves can be consumed between now and 2050 if we are to have an 80% chance of avoiding devastating climatic changes that would destroy the global economy," writes Oilchange International's Lorne Stockman in an October 2013 report.
Northern Ireland should push the EU to grant it special associate or even membership status to avoid the "devastating" consequences of Brexit for Irish people, Martin McGuinness has said.
BRUSSELS — With less than 48 hours before Britain's scheduled departure, the European Union extended the exit deadline early Thursday until the end of October, avoiding a devastating cliff-edge divorce but settling none of the issues that have plunged British politics into chaos, dysfunction and recrimination.
To avoid the vibration devastating consequences as quickly as possible, appropriate control laws are designed.
