The phrase "avoid the ranks of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the intention to steer clear of a particular group or category, often implying a negative connotation associated with that group.
Example: "To maintain his integrity, he decided to avoid the ranks of those who engage in unethical practices."
Alternatives: "steer clear of the group" or "stay out of the category".
The senior managers of the company admitted to me that they were tempted to avoid the rank and file partly out of guilt and partly because they doubted whether they would be able to keep a cool enough head to practice process fairness.
The team's larger goal was to avoid joining the ranks of organisations that dump aid in foreign places and then leave, says Ebeling.
Observing recent events, it is difficult to avoid joining the ranks of pessimists who see water wars not as a future threat, but a living reality.
Villeneuve, whose latest film Arrival is in cinemas now and who is also onboard for the Blade Runner sequel, Blade Runner 2049, will try to avoid joining the ranks of directors who have tried and failed to follow up David Lynch's original.
Mobile-phone-related evidence has proved crucial in tracking down the Madrid bombers.The difficult task for governments will be to guard against terrorism while avoiding swelling the ranks of disgruntled Muslims.
This meant that an employee avoided joining the ranks of the bankrupted and her kids' having no Christmas if they'd been in a typical, flawed health plan.
Running back Curtis McNeal fumbled on the Trojans' ensuing drive and the fourth-ranked Cardinal recovered the ball in the end zone to avoid falling from the ranks of the unbeaten, as Kansas State and Clemson had earlier in the day.
The defeat came on Mr. Stevens's 85th birthday, at the end of a day in which he avoided expulsion from the ranks of Senate Republicans as his colleagues awaited the final results.
Then, we can avoid the undesirable rank decrease of the matrix Z i by adding the square matrix of which the diagonal elements are b j of the frequency band ω j.
The developed approach is evaluated against some of the previously used ranking approaches and the results provide experimental evidences on its ability to avoid the drawbacks of the ranking approaches.
