The phrase "avoid the occasion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when advising someone to steer clear of a specific event or situation that may lead to undesirable outcomes.
Example: "To maintain peace, it's best to avoid the occasion where conflicts might arise."
Alternatives: "steer clear of the event" or "refrain from the situation".
You are simply resolving to try to avoid the near occasions that lead you to sin -- this still counts as repentance.
I firmly resolve with the Help Of Thy Grace to sin no more and to avoid the most near occasion of sin.
I firmly resolve, with the Help of Thy Holy Grace, to sin no more, and to avoid the most near occasion of sin.
With the pageantry and spectacle of Wednesday's game fast approaching, many would seek to avoid playing the occasion - not Reo-Coker.
The guard was videotaped crawling out of the detainee's cell — trying, unsuccessfully, to avoid the camera — on two occasions, once at 11 36 P.M., seven minutes after entering, and once at 11 47 P.M., following a ten-minute visit.
The knock-and-announce rule gives individuals "the opportunity to comply with the law and to avoid the destruction of property occasioned by a forcible entry". Richards, 520 U. S., at 393, n. 5. See also Banks, 540 U. S., at 41.
The newly-released emails suggest that the Dow shut down its offices on that occasion to avoid the protesters, after receiving a Stratfor report.
But the Prime Minister is determined to avoid the embarrassment of the previous occasion he went to Parliament to request approval for military action, when the motion was defeated by Labour.
"The appearance of the airship would strike terror into the tribes". Hence, one could avoid "the awful waste of life occasioned to white troops by expeditionary work". The air force could simply patrol the land the way the navy patrols the sea.
In many occasions the applications of ultrasound can avoid the use of catalysts in organic reactions.
