The phrase "avoid initiating" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when advising someone to refrain from starting or triggering a particular action or process.
Example: "In order to maintain a peaceful environment, it is best to avoid initiating any controversial discussions."
Alternatives: "refrain from starting" or "steer clear of beginning".
Moreover, if nodes sense the medium to detect the external interference, they must be aware of the sensing period of their neighbors to avoid initiating any transmission on the same channel that is being sensed for detecting external interference.
When market index ETFs like the SPY and the QQQQ and the DIA earn Short Term PowerRatings upgrades from especially low levels, as they have in recent days, it is vital that traders recognize the new reality and avoid initiating new bets against the market.
Although the manager decided against pressing charges, police advised the man wisely to avoid initiating any contact whatsoever going forward.
This is performed prior to the final simplex optimization to avoid initiating the parameter(s) at the same value for each condition being fit, as we found this to increase the chances that the Nelder Mead simplex terminates very close to its initial state and overall generally worse fits.
You should probably avoid initiating negative comments, no matter how truthful, with people whom you are not closely acquainted or good friends with.
Ping-pong messages were proposed to measure the signal strength and avoid initiating a false route failure warning.
Collectively, these results suggest that drivers avoided initiating the secondary task before an immediate transition to higher driving demands.
Starr: As we've noted, institutions are apparently avoiding initiating these suits.
As part of this therapy patients are encouraged to face their fears about social contact, by putting themselves into a situation they would normally avoid or initiating conversation with new people.
To avoid confusion initiated by reversal translocations of tRNA genes, the discussion of gene order is restricted to the protein-coding and rRNA genes.
However, most of the current promoter options either are tightly repressed only with low protein production levels, or produce substantial protein but lacking of the necessary repression to avoid mutations initiated by leaky expression in the absence of inducer.
