The phrase "adopted and maintained" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe something that has been accepted and kept up or supported over a period of time. For example, "The company has adopted and maintained a strict policy of eco-friendliness for the last five years."
Aware that his quick tongue could lead him into indiscretion, he adopted and maintained all his life the practice of writing out his lectures and sermons in full beforehand rather than improvising or speaking from concise notes.
When Muhammed Yunus took the first steps toward establishing Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and began to provide micro-credit loans to those living in abject poverty in the rural area surrounding Jobra, he adopted and maintained two basic premises.
Additionally, improved stoves must be adopted and maintained by households in order to achieve intended benefits.
Innovation that showed visible benefits to its users were more likely to be adopted and maintained [ 30, 31, 50].
Regarding triability, several authors [ 31- 33] found that innovations were adopted and maintained more easily if users could test them first before adopting them.
The same methodology could be used in a different setting and could help predict which innovations are more likely to be adopted and maintained over time.
Research has always shown that if you want to adopt and maintain new habits, it helps to not do it alone.
In March, the AFL-CIO, along with the major labour federations of Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, authored a statement insisting that an agreement "must at a minimum require that each party adopt and maintain laws and regulations consistent with the International Labor Organization ILOO) core labor rights".
Hence, there has been less need to focus on ways of encouraging users to adopt and maintain injury surveillance systems.
This includes adopting and maintaining the focus on the functionality and operability features of the project product.
Our central focus is on the evolving intentions of agents over time, and the conditions under which an agent can adopt and maintain an intention.
