Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Resort to
Resort to verb - To go to or spend time in often.
Usage example: resorted to the library whenever he felt the need for a little peace and quiet
Both terms in one sentence
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Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: The Orphics have to organize in small cells to avoid detection, and some of those cells are desperate enough to resort to blowing stuff up.
Source: Webcomic / Blindsprings - Those too eager to avoid this characterization may resort to the No True Scotsman fallacy ("that person isn't a real example of X").
Source: Don't Shoot the Message - Skitter likes to resort to threats because she does not really like to hurt people, and hopes that scaring them off would avoid lethal consequences.
Source: Literature / Worm
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