The phrase "act of maintaining" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process or effort involved in keeping something in a certain state or condition.
Example: "The act of maintaining a healthy lifestyle requires dedication and discipline."
Alternatives: "process of upkeep" or "effort of preservation".
Russian policy makers, the report said, would increasingly find themselves performing a "balancing act" of maintaining macro-economic stability while meeting growing demands for social spending as poverty spreads.
In the legal industry, like many other client-service organizations, the balancing act of maintaining high levels of client service while efficiently managing budgets, billable hours and work-life balance has become challenging to the say the least.
"The intention is to materialize the performativity of gender at a biopolitical level, as well as drawing a parallel between the repetitive act of cleansing with the act of maintaining one's own gender hygiene.
We are in a subconscious act of maintaining our footing and this is like all of life, we are constantly hurling ourselves forward with the threat of bodily damage, in a state of emergency, and we must react and with intention.
As our digital world expands our options for news based on focus, writing style, perspective and design, publishers are faced with the balancing act of maintaining our reputation as a trusted news source, while developing new incentives in order to engage their readership.
And one of the casualties of this indiscriminate act might be an essential part of maintaining a strong military with a high morale.
The underlying causes of such behaviours are not solely based on levels of aggression, but act as a mean of maintaining the subject's own sense of self-worth, identity, and general functioning.
In a dramatic departure from past voting practices, the board of directors of baseball's Hall of Fame paved the way yesterday for more players to be elected while saying it acted in the interest of maintaining its high standards for election.
PTEN acts as a regulator of maintaining basal levels of PIP3 below a threshold for those signaling activation.
Violence and controlling behaviors may result in abusive relationships; many researchers have shown that the underlying causes of those behaviors are not only based on levels of aggression but also acted as a mean of maintaining the subject's own sense of self-worth, identity, and general functioning [ 3].
Both the above mentioned control systems, without any fuel addition, act with the common goal of maintaining constant the air temperature at turbine inlet.
