The phrase "avoid misfortune" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to advise someone to be careful and watch out for trouble. For example: "Be sure to avoid misfortune by exercising caution when you're out at night."
The moral hazard of universal health insurance is the same as that of any insurance: when the lucky must pay for the misfortunes of the unlucky, the incentive to avoid misfortunes is diminished.
First, they teach us how to avoid misfortunes or mitigate the impact they have on our life; second, in case they happen, they direct our attention to ways of coping with misfortunes or escape dangerous consequences; third, they tell us how to gain "some good" out of "any kind of ill" (De utilitate, OO, II, 10b, 27b, 39a).
The bāru (the official prognosticator), who observed and interpreted the celestial omina, was thus in a position to advise his royal employer on the means of avoiding misfortunes; the omens provided a basis for intelligent action rather than an indication of an inexorable fate.
Cardano characterizes his method (ratio) for avoiding misfortunes and preparing against calamities as based on a particular kind of knowledge (scientia) – both useful and necessary – which "teaches us to recognize and obtain known goods, and once they are obtained, it tells us how to use them and how to protect us with them against ills" (De utilitate, OO, II, 17a).
Fanchini, a bronze medalist in downhill at last year's world championships, was unable to avoid that misfortune, losing control near the top of the course and flying head first through a gate and ending up screaming in pain as she lay on her side in the snow.
Fanchini, a bronze medalist in downhill at last year's world championships, was unable to avoid that misfortune, losing control near the top of the course and flying headfirst through a gate and ending up screaming in pain as she lay on her side in the snow.
In earthquake zones, collectors store their china in special padded containers and use quakeproof locks on their cabinets, to avoid the misfortune suffered by a friend of mine in California, whose antique Royal Doulton service for 12 sustained casualties during a big quake.
With London 2012 only two weeks away, Zara Phillips is hoping to avoid the misfortune which has ruled her out of the past two Games.
The Katsanovs, who used to be such a happy and united family did not avoid the misfortune of those days.
Heini's father, Heinrich Thyssen, avoided similar misfortune and dishonor by abandoning Germany as a young man and settling in Hungary in 1905.
