The phrase "avoided the less" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to express a preference for something over something lesser, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "In making my decision, I avoided the less appealing options available to me."
Alternatives: "chose the better" or "opted for the more favorable".
The boats get crowded in peak season – avoid the less expensive ferry services that pack up to 200 people aboard.
They tended to know the industry better than anyone else at the firm, and are very valuable in identifying terrific companies and avoiding the less terrific ones.
After losing repeatedly, most subjects began to nervously avoid the less favorable decks but were unable to say why until after much further play.
They include, but are not limited to, extending the network lifetime, maximizing throughput at the sink node, avoiding the less secured nodes, considering nodes or sink mobility.
During the phenomenal nine-year transformation of City from hapless local club to Abu Dhabi-owned global corporation, Mansour's executives have prided themselves, for all the £1.2bn spent, on avoiding the less savoury, incestuous areas of the business.
Another is the possibility of raising capital while avoiding the less desirable trappings of full public ownership, such as class-action litigation, compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley law on corporate governance, and pressure to make the quarterly numbers.
It helps to avoid the less objective approach used currently by operators which includes assigning a monetary value on each minute of delay.
Her excellent new book, How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation and the Threat to Democracy describes how, for decades, big banks have shed their social contract with the American public and transformed themselves into modern monstrosities which serve corporations and the wealthy and exploit or avoid the less affluent members of our society.
The rat was placed in the test box and allowed to settle in for 5∼10 min. An ascending series of von Frey hairs with logarithmically incremental stiffness (0.40, 0.60, 1.4, 2.0, 4.0, 6.0, 8.0, and 15.0 g) were applied perpendicular to the mid-plantar surface (avoiding the less sensitive tori) of each hind paw.
Ribonucleosides are thus tetra-functional (containing a recognition surface and three alcohol groups: 2′, 3′, and 5′), but their reactivity and regiochemistries are enzymatically controlled, avoiding the less stable 2′,5′-linkages (Usher and McHale, 1976; Yin and Steitz, 2002).
