The phrase "acquiring and maintaining" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the processes of obtaining and keeping something, often in contexts related to resources, skills, or relationships.
Example: "The key to success in this business is acquiring and maintaining strong client relationships."
Alternatives: "gaining and sustaining" or "obtaining and preserving".
Most of his examples have to do with bureaucratic obstacles to acquiring and maintaining legal businesses.
He had a role in acquiring and maintaining the Smithsonian's collection of capsules and other relics of American forays into space.
Business has replaced politics as the best means of acquiring and maintaining power, which is, at bottom, a prince's main concern.
Polo spread throughout the country, although the game long remained one for the rich because of the expense of acquiring and maintaining a stable of polo ponies.
You will not find these revealing passages in the national curriculum, where the cruelty and mass murder that Britain often used in acquiring and maintaining its empire are bypassed, leaving the latest generation of school-leavers as ignorant about Britain's overseas role in the not-so-distant past as most of today's policy-makers.
However, there are expenses to acquiring and maintaining sheepdogs.
Being expensive to acquire and maintain, international patents tend to exclude the loony fringe.
It would hire and train the private guards who screen passengers and their luggage, and acquire and maintain screening devices.
But the Girl Scouts continues to acquire and maintain a wide portfolio of corporate donors, and, according to Boockvar, it hasn't lost any.
Wicker wrote: "That a Russian public servant could have amassed the considerable funds required to acquire and maintain these assets in Europe and the United States raises serious questions".
There is no need for a firearms licence – customers are told they can "acquire and maintain [the Guardian Angel II] without authorisation".
