The phrase "act to maintain" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing actions taken to preserve or uphold a certain condition, standard, or situation.
Example: "The organization must act to maintain its reputation in the community."
Alternatives: "take steps to preserve" or "make efforts to uphold".
The insight is that resource bounded humans will, by default, act to maintain affective consistency.
Now more than ever, the GMC must act to maintain public confidence in the profession.
The anticonscience is a tough act to maintain, however, and after seven years Frank's no longer just a drunken bore.
"Constancy in an open system, such as our bodies represent, requires mechanisms that act to maintain this constancy," Cannon wrote.
It would be a hard act to maintain for anyone, but it must be particularly difficult for Mr. White.
Committee members suggested that the F.D.A. had to act to maintain the integrity of the accelerated approval program.
However, the molecular mechanisms that act to maintain tissue and organ homeostasis during cellular stress are largely unknown.
The interaction creates vorticity, and the vortices act to maintain a high level of energy release long after the shock wave has passed through the flame.
The BSP and OPN act to maintain the interface integrity between Sharpey's fiber-containing and Sharpey's fiber-lacking alveolar bone after the PF attachment is established.
If antitrust legislation, as it stands, proves unable to stop the foreclosure of competition, maybe Congress will take notice and act to maintain a competitive playing field.
A spokeswoman for Mark Butler, the shadow environment minister, said: "Labor is satisfied the government has sufficiently revised its amendments to the EPBC Act to maintain environmental protections.
