"avoiding obligation" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe the act of evading some responsibility or requirement. For example: "By avoiding obligation, he was able to continue his carefree lifestyle."
There is something to be said for taking a well-earned break to avoid burnout & fatigue; however, that should be a purposeful & meaningful break rather than avoiding obligations & responsibilities.
Not even A-listers can avoid obligation, and neither can you.
She'll be seen in a sketch about how Ms. Schumer exploits her friend's cancer to win sympathy and avoid obligations.
"It's great that they sell lattes to people doing Internet banking on their iPods, but they should not be able to avoid obligations to the communities they serve," said Bruce Mirken, spokesman for the Greenlining Institute, a Berkeley-based advocacy group.
Yesterday, as part of an effort to combat tax-avoidance schemes, the U.S. Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service went to court seeking records from the Visa credit-card company to help identify U.S. taxpayers using one of two-dozen offshore tax havens to avoid obligations to the federal treasury.
often lies to obtain goods or favors or to avoid obligations (i.e., "cons" others).
An estimated half-million self-employed Greeks are thought to be illegally avoiding their obligation to pay into the system.
I also remember that avoiding the obligation to go to Vietnam by legal means was popular during that time.
AS the Barbados delegation wrote in its February 2011 letter, "An obligation not to restrict financial services in a situation where a member wishes to do so could be interpreted as having the intention of avoiding that obligation".
