The phrase "a determination to maintain" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when expressing a strong resolve or commitment to uphold something, such as a principle, standard, or condition.
Example: "The committee expressed a determination to maintain high standards of quality in all their projects."
Alternatives: "a commitment to uphold" or "a resolve to sustain".
The physical remains, however, speak of a determination to maintain respectability no matter how difficult the circumstances".
And here's the evidence that the world isn't yet safe from murderous parkour champions with nothing but a determination to maintain American state secrets in their blank cerebellums.
But Irib refuses to make any of its own content available online, apparently in a determination to maintain a strict demarcation between state and online media.
Miliband's caution and equivocation partly stem from his lack of support in the shadow cabinet and parliament, and a determination to maintain party unity at all costs.
Jacques Barzun, who has died aged 104, was a scholar of encyclopedic knowledge allied to a determination to maintain high standards in any of the fields his work touched on: literature, philosophy, history and music were usually present.
The civil liberties groups maintain that this solution has less to do with the Defense Department's intention to comply with the justices than with a determination to maintain control of the challenge process.
And when all's said and done it's this long-term view that one wants from our taste-makers: in place of the zeitgeisty flash of a wing-wang, a steely determination to maintain an erection … for centuries.
It reflects both an acknowledgment of the need to be conciliatory in the face of threats of punishment from Washington and a fierce determination to maintain an active foreign policy that asserts France's independence but is certain to rankle Washington even more.
In Nancy Balfour's day, American Survey (now renamed United States) was run on almost military lines, with strict discipline, frugal use of resources and a firm determination to maintain its independence from the rest of the paper.
But while the importance of the first two is much diminished, the Corporation, the least reformed of all, is more influential than it has been since its medieval heyday.Dating back to the early 12th century, it owes its survival to what Tony Travers, professor of local government at the London School of Economics, calls a "steely determination" to maintain its power.
"People are very nervous, very anxious," the Montgomery County executive, Doug Duncan, said, adding that high school football games would be held as scheduled as a sign of determination to maintain community life.
