The phrase "avoiding certainly" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express the idea of steering clear of something with certainty, but the construction is awkward and unclear.
Example: "He was avoiding certainly the pitfalls of overconfidence in his analysis."
Alternatives: "steering clear of" or "definitely avoiding".
"But what is striking is that simply being alone with their own thoughts for 15 minutes was apparently so aversive that it drove many participants to self-administer an electric shock that they had earlier said they would pay to avoid". Certainly, they authors write, people can enjoy looking inward – daydreaming, fantasizing, coming up with interesting ideas.
Failing to raise the debt ceiling, however, is more than analogous to that systemic crash, and while markets appear to have priced in a last-minute agreement to avoid default — certainly that's the lesson of recent history — one can see nervousness, both in equity markets and in the rising yields of shorter-term Treasuries.
Had it been raised years ago, it would have generated millions of dollars, which could have avoided or certainly drastically reduced the current budget deficit.
Thanks to his enormous expenditure of political capital, job losses have turned into (unfortunately anemic) job growth, and we have avoided a certainly deeper economic malaise.
The protein becomes more problematic when free of nucleotide and needs to be kept cold in order to avoid precipitation, certainly at higher concentrations.
When free of nucleotide, the protein becomes more problematic and needed to be kept cold at all times in order to avoid precipitation, certainly at high concentrations.
In addition, preventing disease potentially avoids and certainly postpones suffering and may have many other benefits that are difficult to quantify (e.g., impact on families), which may make it preferable to treatment.
Avoiding heat loss certainly results in a healthier environment and makes buildings cheaper to operate.
If England win their pool, that includes matches against Wales and Australia at Twickenham, they will earn the softest possible route to the final, almost certainly avoiding South Africa and New Zealand.
This would have many benefits, including reducing the piecemeal change, the confusion and the additional costs while, subject to the finer details, certainly avoiding the increased contributions for possibly all, or excepting only a few.
