The phrase "avoiding collapse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing strategies or actions taken to prevent a failure or breakdown of a system, organization, or structure.
Example: "The engineers implemented several safety measures aimed at avoiding collapse during the construction process."
Alternatives: "preventing failure" or "staving off breakdown".
Strange as it seems, a de-fanged, steady-state version of the current settlement might offer the best prospect humankind has ever had of avoiding collapse.
Saab Automobile's last hopes for avoiding collapse appeared to be fading Thursday, with Chinese investors getting cold feet and the court-appointed administrator recommending that its reorganization process be halted.
By depriving regulators of the tools they need to seize failing financial firms, financial lobbyists increase the chances that when the next crisis strikes, taxpayers will end up paying a ransom to stockholders and executives as the price of avoiding collapse.
Avoiding collapse in Scotland is still a possibility.
Because, like it or not we are going to have to make tough decisions concerning how to best make rapid and sweeping technological transitions of our energy sector along with revamping our financial sector if we are to have any hope of avoiding collapse.
Humanity has the assets to get the job done, but the odds of avoiding collapse seem small because the risks are clearly not obvious to most people and the classic signs of impending collapse, especially diminishing returns to complexity, are everywhere.
What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion.
Mr. Lamy emphasized that Europe wants to assist the American steel industry in restructuring to avoid collapse.
To keep costs down, no beams were used, and so the passages had to be narrow to avoid collapse.
This is a country that has chosen to avoid collapse through a combination of solidarity and smart engineering.
Lloyds needed £20.5bn of taxpayers' money to avoid collapse at the peak of the financial crisis in October 2008.
