The phrase "avoiding a showdown with" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing strategies or actions taken to prevent a confrontation or conflict with someone or something.
Example: "The politician focused on avoiding a showdown with his opponents to maintain a peaceful dialogue."
Alternatives: "steering clear of a confrontation with" or "evading a clash with".
Leading reform politicians are responding to the latest clerical offensive cautiously, eager to avoid a showdown with the powerful religious establishment.
If the state Supreme Court had shown more caution, it might have avoided a showdown with the executive and legislative branches in Florida that judges may well lose.
Warner Bros, which originally slated Batman v Superman for May 2016, recently announced the film will instead open in March of that year to avoid a showdown with another superhero.
Last year, Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, avoided a showdown with a Canadian mutual fund operator at its annual meeting by agreeing to study the relationship between its management and its directors.
Those are precisely the choices that Mr. Arafat has deliberately avoided making for years, explaining away his failures by his desire to maintain Palestinian unity and avoid a showdown with groups like Hamas that reject any negotiated peace with Israel.
According to residents in the town, one of Somalia's biggest, most of the Shabab fighters had been fleeing reluctantly, choosing to avoid a showdown with the much better-equipped Kenyan military.
Keeping the hall's exterior will also avoid a showdown with the Fisher family, which has threatened legal action if the name of the hall is changed to accommodate a new donor.
According to the agreement, America will also begin taking steps to remove North Korea from its list of countries that sponsor terrorism and to lift trade sanctions that have been in place since the Korean war.America is clearly trying to avoid a showdown with the North.
Elizabeth had sense enough to avoid a showdown with the Commons, and she retreated under parliamentary attack on the issue of her prerogative rights to grant monopolies regulating and licensing the economic life of the kingdom, but on the subject of her religious settlement she refused to budge.
His show Louie won best show, in the alternative show category, helping it avoid a showdown with comedy series winner Parks and Recreation.
