The phrase "avoiding terrorist attacks" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about security measures, policies, or strategies aimed at preventing such incidents.
Example: "The government is implementing new security protocols aimed at avoiding terrorist attacks in public spaces."
Alternatives: "preventing terrorist incidents" or "mitigating terrorist threats."
Terrorism Information Awareness is a uniquely promising program that can help avoid terrorist attacks against American assets at home and abroad.
"It is absurd to suggest that the way to avoid terrorist attacks is to let the terrorists dictate standards in a democracy," said an editorial in the New York Times.
"Thanks to my contacts and influence, we have been able to resolve kidnappings in the Arab world and avoid terrorist attacks in and out of Spain," Kassar told El Mundo when the extradition was finalized.
In one of his more bizarre diversions, Gaddafi said the United Nations headquarters building should be moved out of New York to a safer city in Europe or elsewhere to avoid terrorist attacks -- and because leaders arrived in the city with jetlag.
However, convention officials have asked establishments to avoid providing the news media with details, in an effort to avoid both terrorist attacks and protesters.
In 2007 many Americans who think of the C.I.A. — when they consider the now-diminished agency at all — wonder bitterly why it could not help us avoid the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and why it claimed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction so dangerous that we had to fight a costly war in Iraq.
"I want to give more professional discretion to the cop on the beat to decide, given all the circumstances, whether to prosecute a 19-year-old at a checkpoint who happens to have an exposed beer can in a car, at a time when the city should be focusing on anticipating, preventing or avoiding a terrorist attack," he said.
After narrowly avoiding a terrorist attack on board a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris, the country was once again plunged in grief in November when a group of armed men carried out the deadliest attacks on French soil since WWII, killing 130 people in shootings around Paris.
"We are doing everything to avoid a terrorist attack, and we're preparing to react to one," the interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said.
That strategy is a shift from the approach after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when the authorities generally focused on arresting terrorist suspects at the earliest possible point to avoid another terrorist attack.
