The phrase "avoid greater" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to suggest avoiding something that is larger or more significant, but it lacks clarity and context.
Example: "To ensure safety, we must avoid greater risks during the experiment."
Alternatives: "steer clear of larger" or "prevent more significant".
Yet he was able to reverse the religious imperative to avoid greater damage.
They do care about their international image, if only to avoid greater global consensus against them.
Above all, individuals inside the bank say, Mr. Lewis is desperate to avoid greater government intervention and maintain control over his wobbling financial empire.
To avoid greater tragedy in Afghanistan we may have to rely on a new generation of whistleblowers who are making huge personal sacrifices to challenge the official narrative.
The diagnosis of degenerative changes in human teeth is of general interest because early detections can avoid greater health problems and further weakening effects.
An interrogator using techniques that cause harm might be immune from liability if he "believed at the moment that his act is necessary and designed to avoid greater harm".
Use of the FDI methods allows one to prevent the destruction of equipment and avoid great losses.
Practically, the absorber diameter should be larger than the size of the reflected light cone to avoid great optical loss caused by rays escaping.
The cover image of the singer seemed to tell the story of a man who, perhaps in order to avoid great pain, had entered oblivion, but done so in style, with a cool cigarette sticking straight out of his mouth.
In hindsight — and with the memory of the terror of those days dulled by the passing of time and the knowledge that we did avoid Great Depression II — I am less certain.
How well they know that just the threat of taking someone to court can get that person to settle just to avoid great expense and aggravation.
