But rephrase if necessary to avoid following the address with a comma or other punctuation mark.

Nature is full of imperfection, and I prefer to avoid following a strict design.

This allows the player to often avoid following suit, which can be very advantageous.

Women should therefore avoid pregnancy during and for 6 months following treatment.

We had agreed to avoid following Pepe as a group so as not to attract attention.

However, caution should be exercised to avoid the onset of local breakage following the cuts made.

To avoid following this devaluation, several of the states using the rupee adopted their own currencies.

Normally, painters avoided illustrations of human figures, following Islamic scripture.

He married, soon had a daughter, and, to avoid following his father's lock-step footprints into the auto plants, took a job painting apartments.

Generally, avoid following signs that point to anywhere significant, such as Wellington.