The phrase "avoid impairing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the need to prevent damage or deterioration in a particular context, such as health, performance, or functionality.
Example: "To ensure the longevity of the equipment, we must avoid impairing its performance through improper use."
Alternatives: "prevent damage" or "stop hindering".
Any legal challenge to a transfer of Disney's guild obligations to a Bergstein-led group would most likely come only after a deal was concluded, partly because the guilds have been careful to avoid impairing their already tense relationship with Mr. Bergstein by taking a public position against the merger.
After surgery, the patient was advised to stop smoking to avoid impairing the healing process.
The Court has also held that despite the absence of express statutory authority to do so, the Federal Trade Commission may petition for, and a Court of Appeals may issue, pursuant to § 1651, an order preventing a merger pending hearings before the Commission to avoid impairing or frustrating the Court of Appeals' appellate jurisdiction.
In multimedia learning settings, limitations in learners' mental resource capacities need to be considered to avoid impairing effects on learning performance.
Taken together, this suggests some selection pressure to conserve the C-terminal part of the Cx43 amino acid sequence intact in order to avoid impaired regulation of gap junction communication.
These memories are vivid images, highly avoided, impair daily functioning, and perpetuate depression (Brewin, Reynolds, & Tata, 1999; Newby & Moulds, 2011), yet they are a neglected feature of the disorder.
For marginally impaired patients, more liberal use of blood alcohol concentrations and explicit instructions to avoid driving while impaired might improve patient care and promote highway safety.
Given that impaired healing seems to be a natural phenomenon in healthy bats, including both lactating and non-reproductive females, we caution researchers to avoid concluding that impaired healing in wild bats is a result of a previous WNS infection.
With poor input from the visual senses, the ability to control balance and avoid obstacles became impaired due to misinterpretation of spatial information and weakened depth perception.
The couple said the case had raised questions about the safety of aerobatic air displays "when there is now doubt concerning any pilot's ability to avoid becoming cognitively impaired".
There are some early clinic data to suggest that the ability to change insulin regimens to avoid hypoglycemia is impaired in those who are hypoglycemia unaware (46).
