The phrase "avoid shifting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to suggest not changing or altering something, such as a focus, position, or perspective.
Example: "To maintain clarity in your argument, it is essential to avoid shifting between different topics."
Alternatives: "prevent changes" or "stay consistent".
For companies to avoid shifting advertising and marketing attention toward older Americans is "a big mistake," he said.
Meanwhile, the CDM has enabled polluting industries to buy cheap carbon credits to meet their emissions commitments and avoid shifting to more costly low carbon technologies, and has been slammed for backing projects that have had devastating impacts on local communities.
Mary Margaret Cox, executive director of Meals on Wheels in Greeley, Colo., which serves meals to 300 people a day, said that her agency was trying to avoid shifting to frozen meals, but that it was getting hard to recruit students and teachers who volunteer during the summer.
Whether on the corporate or the individual side, the same conundrum faces anyone who seeks to make the tax system both simpler and fairer while lowering tax rates, but without busting the budget: somebody must pay, and it is hard to avoid shifting the tax burden from one sector of society to another.
National carbon footprints can help design equitable and efficient climate agreements that avoid shifting problems to other administrative territories.
Furthermore, the assessments should apply LC-approaches to avoid shifting problems from one location or a step in production to another.
This saves time and is also safer as it avoids shifting of critically ill patients to other departments.
Once the fluid collection and surrounding structures are identified, it is important to maintain the patient's position, in order to avoid shifts in fluid and structures.
If the atom is isotopic and its mass number is greater than or equal to the rounded average atomic mass (that is, shift is not negative) then the shift is incremented, to avoid shift = 0 for isotopes.
Analysis of the samples was carried out on a Leica TCS SP5 confocal laser microscope (Leica Microsistemas SLU, Barcelona, Spain) using simultaneous scans to avoid shift between the optical channels.
This could be an additional promising extension of this study, although it needs to be taken into account that the translations of value descriptions into different languages would have to be carefully validated in order to avoid shifts in meaning.
