The phrase "avoiding a charge of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of preventing accusations or allegations against someone, often in a legal or ethical context.
Example: "The politician focused on transparency, avoiding a charge of corruption during the investigation."
Alternatives: "preventing an accusation of" or "steering clear of a claim of".
Gillray once narrowly avoided a charge of blasphemy over a caricature containing a Biblical reference.
If BP avoids a charge of gross negligence it will be able to charge its junior partners in the fateful Macondo well – Anadarko and Mitsui – for a third of the costs.
The last son, Edward Kennedy, has been lucky to avoid a charge of manslaughter, while two of Robert Kennedy's sons died tragically young, one from a cocaine overdose and another in a skiing accident.
They warned that defendants could be encouraged to plead guilty to offences they did not commit in order to avoid a charge of between the flat rate £150 and up to £1,000 if convicted after pleading not guilty.
89 Edwards et al. have in fact argued that a research ethics committee's (REC's) role could be merely to assess goal- and right-based issues such as methodology and informed consent, in order to avoid a charge of paternalism.
Adrenaline and alcohol alone cannot explain the enduring appeal of the San Fermín festival among many fans, especially those Americans who travel thousands of miles for the annual thrill of avoiding a charging bull's horns.
To avoid a charge-up of the sample, the surface was sputtered with gold for 20 s.
How can the world know whether this president or a successor truly pursued all methods short of assassination, or instead — to avoid a political charge of weakness — built up a tough-sounding list of kills?
Van Meegeren profited under the Nazi occupation of Holland, leading to the wonderfully paradoxical court case where he had to prove he was a forger to avoid a postwar charge of selling national treasures to the Nazis: he had hoodwinked Hermann Göring with a fake Vermeer of Christ and the Adulteress.
