The phrase "avoid surrender" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing strategies or attitudes towards not giving up or yielding in a situation.
Example: "In the face of adversity, it is important to avoid surrender and keep pushing forward."
Alternatives: "resist capitulation" or "steer clear of giving up".
In World War II Germany built 1,162 U-boats, of which 785 were destroyed and the remainder surrendered (or were scuttled to avoid surrender) at the capitulation.
In other words, the German high command had abandoned hope of victory or even of holding their gains and hoped only to avoid surrender.
The conference took place on the 42nd anniversary of the 1969 coup that brought Colonel Qaddafi to power, which one of Libya's representatives, Mahmoud Jibril, said was an important marker for the Libyan people, especially with the colonel and at least two of his sons now in hiding and still trying to avoid surrender.
The transaction helped Lloyds avoid surrendering an even bigger stake to the British government.
Ocupar para não entregar — "occupy it to avoid surrendering it" — was the slogan of the day.
This was supposed to be Sheldon Silver's final act, a last-gasp gambit to avoid surrendering to prison on Oct. 5 that seemed certain to fail.
Nixon's particular portfolio of eccentricities, of course, included recording himself, not managing to avoid surrendering the tapes to the authorities, and incriminating himself.
He also asserts in his memoirs that Pemberton in particular wanted to avoid surrendering on July 4, and thus by holding out for better terms he defeated his own purposes.
Though Brazilian officials have historically viewed the colonization of the Amazon as a matter of national security — military rulers built roads to the forest under the slogan "Occupy it to avoid surrendering it" — deforestation in the region already ranks among the largest contributors to global greenhouse-gas emissions.
Researchers first viewed the geoglyphs in the 1970s, after Brazil's military dictatorship encouraged settlers to move to Acre and other parts of the Amazon, using the nationalist slogan "occupy to avoid surrendering" to justify the settlement that resulted in deforestation.
"The time for reflection is not now," Flower said as he surveyed the wreckage of England's second consecutive mauling, which has left them needing a result on their least productive Australian ground to avoid surrendering the Ashes in the same tame manner as in 2006, when they lost the urn after the third Test in Perth and ended up being whitewashed.
