The phrase "avoid relinquishing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the importance of not giving up or letting go of something valuable or significant.
Example: "In negotiations, it is crucial to avoid relinquishing your key demands to achieve a favorable outcome."
Alternatives: "prevent giving up" or "refrain from surrendering".
We see what comes when rulers don democratic trappings but use every trick to avoid relinquishing power.
Trump's path to the nomination was blazed by the conservative movement's embrace of know-nothing punditry, the vilification of liberals and mainstream media, and the promotion of conspiracy theories about President Obama's citizenship, faith, love of country, and supposed intention to invoke martial law to avoid relinquishing the White House after his second term.
Avoid relinquishing your own home in order to house sit unless you are absolutely positive that you will want to sit for a long time, and that you don't mind the prospect of being without a home in between house sitting gigs.
The rub: If more than one person is equally in charge of something it is incredibly difficult to avoid subtly relinquishing responsibility and accountability.
In order to avoid this, we relinquished a combined four-group comparison and instead compared the model across gender and the two age groups separately.
In order to work together as partners, the winner of the election might be clever enough to avoid forcing the army to relinquish its comfort zone.
It is fair to say that most people who anguish over the population problem are trying to find a way to avoid the evils of overpopulation without relinquishing any of the privileges they now enjoy.
It was presented by Nicky Campbell, who was adopted as a baby in the 1960s, when unmarried mothers were encouraged to relinquish their newborns to avoid the stigma of illegitimacy.
"Google Baby" — which derives its title from the practice of finding potential egg donors online — gives us no Upper East Side trophy wives choosing surrogacy to avoid the inconvenience of weight gain and relinquishing of gin and tonics.
Iran, in exchange for relinquishing its nuclear dreams, would avoid painful sanctions, be readmitted to the international community and eventually gain the economic and political benefits of being recognized as a regional power.
Mr. Pistorius was told to relinquish firearms and passports and to avoid his home, which is now declared a crime scene.
