The phrase "avoiding rather" is not correct and does not form a coherent expression in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete thought and lacks clarity in its intended meaning.
Example: "He is avoiding rather than confronting the issue."
Alternatives: "steering clear of" or "eschewing".
"We've got to have much more focus on avoiding rather than surviving crashes," he said.
When she was at Melbourne University, working part time as a waitress at the Old Homestead Inn to pay her way, Blanchett would jot down overheard conversations on her pad; those "found moments" went into a play that she wrote with another student, about life in the city and how people's conversations are often "a way of avoiding rather than communicating".
Nowadays, nature is a place most of us visit, suppress, exploit, or avoid, rather than inhabit.
It's little surprise then that reforms has been avoided rather than embraced.
This idea, of course, avoids rather than solves the problem of the origin of life.
But the one-dimensional characters are mostly ones you'd want to avoid rather than spend a holiday with".
He sees it as a partial step, designed to avoid, rather than confront, the hardest issues facing Israel.
These words suggest that the practice of beating prisoners up is not to be avoided, rather to be carried out with due caution and out of sight.
This is still a very red state, so the accomplishment might be in terms of further damage avoided, rather than political capital gained".
As the final chapter of Ryan's congressional career is judged on what he avoids rather than what he accomplishes, he has started to look to his future.
The charity says money advice should be "preventative" and target people going through major changes in their lives to help them avoid rather than respond to financial difficulties.
