The phrase "avoid the sorts of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the intention to steer clear of certain types or categories of things, behaviors, or situations.
Example: "To maintain a positive work environment, we should avoid the sorts of conflicts that can lead to misunderstandings."
Alternatives: "steer clear of the types of" or "prevent the kinds of".
The board's provisions mandating debates between the candidates it finances were devised to avoid the sorts of messy debates over debates that crop up so persistently during elections.
One is to turn the 2002 declaration into a binding code of conduct, in which the countries with overlapping claims (the others are Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan) agree to avoid the sorts of provocations seen this month.
Gordon D. Johndroe, the National Security Council spokesman, told reporters aboard Air Force One that they would discuss new rules to expedite border crossings after natural disasters, terrorist strikes or epidemics, to try to avoid the sorts of tie-ups that slowed border crossings and stalled commerce after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The idea was to spend more on quality, and avoid the sorts of junk food that are deeply unhealthy for our physical bodies.
Just last night Quora was described to me as an "anti-Twitter" at a dinner party, with the specific questions "What does it feel like to murder someone?" and "What does it feel like to be an unattractive woman?" brought up as specific examples of content where people avoid the sorts of knee-jerk reactions as evidenced on Facebook and Twitter in favor of more in-depth and thoughtful responses.
To avoid the sorts of awkward incidents I went through, I told her that Santa is a story people like to repeat, like Little Red Riding Hood or Cinderella, and that just like other stories, sometimes people like to play pretend that they're real.
That would allow Spain to avoid the sort of bailouts that banks in Greece, Portugal and Ireland received.
Mr Obama has managed to avoid the sort of humiliating defeat in Congress that David Cameron suffered in Britain's Parliament.
The cellphone companies wanted to avoid the sort of price wars that occurred a decade earlier in the long-distance market.
But mostly, remarkably, Mr. Brown managed to avoid the sort of career-ending crises that undid venturesome directors elsewhere.
