The phrase "avoid pits" is correct and usable in written English.
It is generally used to suggest that someone should carefully navigate around a potential problem or situation. For example, if you were giving advice to a friend regarding a romantic relationship, you might say, "When it comes to relationships, avoid pits like jealousy and possessiveness."
But 4-H is quick to point out that the competition tries to avoid pitting youngster against youngster.
And in motivating their employees to try harder, they avoid pitting employees against one another and instead focus on out-performing common adversaries: the company's competitors.
However, it is important to avoid pitting upstate and New York City residents against one another in this debate, which is why I and many other New Yorkers support a statewide ban.
Hence, to avoid pitting corrosion selection of appropriate electrode potential, appropriate material and the modification of environment, either by control of the aggressive anion concentration or by the use of inhibitors is needed.
Presenting a common message to funding agencies and policy makers that will avoid pitting one DBER field against another for funding and will promote collaborations across DBER fields.
The challenge for the Obama administration is to avoid pitting generations against each other in a competition for limited budgetary resources, and instead to strengthen interdependence between generations to ensure a stronger future for all?
Practically, the estimation of probe geometry is usually achieved by using analytical expressions, or simulations, to relate the experimental current responses to electrode dimension, taking care to avoid pit falls due to nonplanar geometrical affects (especially recessed electrodes).
Most metal mortars should be used only for relatively soft materials to avoid pitting or spalling.
More of an audio/visual experiment than a game, this monochrome rhythm action folly from the makers of PaRappa the Rappa involves guiding Vibri the rabbit along an ever-pulsating ribbon, avoiding pits and carefully managing looped sections.
Until now, powerful Shiite clerics with large followings in Shiite centers like Sadr City, with its two million people, and Najaf and Karbala, sister holy cities about 80 miles south of Baghdad, each with a population of more than a million, have largely avoided pitting their private militias against the American-led occupation forces, preferring to challenge the Americans politically.
