The phrase "avoid retribution" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one seeks to prevent punishment or retaliation for actions taken.
Example: "In order to maintain a peaceful environment, it is essential to avoid retribution against those who make mistakes."
Alternatives: "prevent retaliation" or "escape punishment".
"I don't know if I could do this job without the music," confided one operator, who, like nearly all the attendants interviewed for this article, asked for anonymity to avoid retribution from superiors.
This article is based in part on interviews with more than two dozen individuals in and around state and city government who requested anonymity to avoid retribution from either man.
I may be wrong, but I predict that they will stop short of the full-scale eviction: they will approve some of those visas and leave others in purgatory in order to avoid retribution against Chinese visa-seekers in America.
The activist, Abu Zafer, using a nickname to avoid retribution, said it would not have taken much to make the houses collapse, because most were built of cinder blocks stacked on top of one another without cement.
One 25-year-old Damascus resident from the neighborhood of Rukin Adeen, who identified himself only by his first name, Anas, to avoid retribution, said he was highly skeptical that the cease-fire would hold.
While the phenomenon is widely known in China, it is so acutely sensitive to Chinese officials that, to avoid retribution for individual reporters, the Financial Times withheld a byline from its investigation into hiring practices in private equity.
He is trying to create structures that would allow investors to join suits anonymously, thus avoiding retribution.
In 2002 and 2004, the ruling party avoided retribution for offenses like these by exploiting the fear of terrorism.
Previous inspections came to grief as the regime learned how to hide its weapons and to calibrate its obstruction in ways that avoided retribution from an increasingly divided council.But this time Iraq would start off at a disadvantage in two ways.
And for many people living with HIV, hiding one's lifesaving antiretroviral medication from family, friends or in some cases government officials, is essential for avoiding retribution or worse.
That way he hopes to avoid any retribution by the generals, who could come back at him if he proves too religious for them.
