The phrase "avoid the blow of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is trying to evade or prevent a negative impact or consequence.
Example: "To maintain peace, we must find a way to avoid the blow of escalating tensions between the two countries."
Alternatives: "dodge the impact of" or "evade the effects of".
Matched in weight and ability, boxing contestants try to land blows hard and often with their fists, each attempting to avoid the blows of the opponent.
Blassingame concludes, "In [the slave father's] family, the slave not only learned how to avoid the blows of the master, but also drew on the love and sympathy of its members to raise his spirits.
Because of the limit cases of immensely slender fibers ((bar {a}rightarrow infty )) and incompressibility (η v→∞), (mathbb {P}_{alpha }) has two zero eigenvalues and it is inverted on its non-singular subspace for (5), to avoid the blow up of (bar {mathbb {V}}^{text {ud}}).
We use the classical geometrical form of the amplitudes to avoid the blow up problem at the caustic.
Specifically, conditions on data are introduced to avoid the blow-up of the solution and, when the blow-up occurs, explicit lower and upper bounds of blow-up time are derived.
The widespread devastation caused by Japan's earthquake and resulting tsunami has been a reminder that even a country well-prepared for such disasters cannot always avoid the brutal blows of nature.
British government officials had lobbied hard to persuade Unilever to maintain its London headquarters, in the hopes of avoiding the symbolic blow of a major company being seen to "leave" the country at a delicate time in its negotiations with European Union officials.
Their commanding advantage dissolved to nothing on Sept. 4, and the Yankees were forced to play a month's worth of tense, playofflike games to avoid the embarrassment of blowing such a large lead to the upstart Baltimore Orioles.
Goldman had avoided the worst blows of the credit crisis, but Citi expects the firm to record a $1.9 billion write-down in its third quarter and lowered its profit estimate to $2.50 a share, from $4.50.
He closed the gap and landed some telling body blows, but he did not have the pop to do real damage to Klitschko, nor was he successful in avoiding the thudding blows of the 6'7 Ukrainian.
Some states might be underreporting the figures in order to avoid the kind of body blow to their economy that Mexico City has suffered.
