The phrase "avoid the plight" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing strategies or actions taken to prevent or escape a difficult or unfortunate situation.
Example: "To ensure a better future for our community, we must take proactive measures to avoid the plight of poverty."
Alternatives: "prevent the hardship" or "escape the dilemma".
Though the PSOE has avoided the plight of Greece's Pasok socialist party, its internal divisions have been gruelling.
By winning, Apopka avoided the plight of the Chinese soccer team in the 1999 Women's World Cup, whose players were treated by ABC as props to be ignored during their loss in the final against the Americans.
The Democratic Party, which swept to power in September, wants to avoid the fate of the previous pro-business government, which was caught off-guard when unemployed workers pitched tents near public offices last year to call attention to their plight.
Mr. Carter bemoans how politics avoids addressing "the plight of those for whom race and poverty have become inexorably intertwined," but he doesn't discuss how race (white) and wealth are also tightly linked.
General Motors and Chrysler have already tapped Washington for $17.4 billion in emergency loans to avoid bankruptcy, and given the plight of the American auto industry that looks like a first installment of taxpayer funds.
It also has, if the past few weeks are any indication, a menagerie of politicians whose sole interest seems to be avoiding — and thus exacerbating — the plight of the three hundred and fifty-three thousaNewNew Yorkers who have lost their jobs since 2008.
More importantly we avoided producing academic tomes about the plight of LGB people that would simply be used to prop up wonky desks in MPs' offices.
In the official 1949 parade program, an essay addressed the plight of "the forgotten man" who drives the float: "He breathes in dust and fumes which are impossible for him to avoid.
Consider the plight of veterinarians.
