The phrase "agency retained" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to legal, business, or contractual agreements where a party maintains or keeps an agency for a specific purpose.
Example: "The company confirmed that the agency retained for marketing services will continue to operate under the existing contract."
Alternatives: "agency engaged" or "agency appointed".
The agency retained a negative outlook on its rating as the "macroeconomic environment could weaken beyond our current expectations".
The two agencies stripped the UK of the top-tier rating last year, but Standard and Poor's, Britain's other big agency, retained the UK's AAA.
The UK government monitoring agency retained emails for longer than it should have and violated its own internal procedures, according to a judgment by the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT).
Mr. O'Keefe said the space agency retained the option of making priority requests for pictures in case of indications of a safety problem, which he said was not the case for the Columbia flight.
In addition to compiling information on Americans who were peaceful political dissenters rather than terrorists, the agency retained reports in its database well beyond a 90-day limit -- a standard adopted in response to the Vietnam-era excesses.
The group, Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, and 15 co-plaintiffs sued the project's developer, Forest City Ratner Companies, and the state agency sponsoring the project, the Empire State Development Corporation, in January after the agency retained an environmental lawyer, David Paget, who had earlier advised the developer on the project.
Let's start with the incumbent agency retaining its client because these days, that's news.
(4) Allocate assignments for preparation of the environmental impact statement among the lead and cooperating agencies, with the lead agency retaining responsibility for the statement.
The White House did not reply to a request for comment as to whether the agency retains the confidence of the president.
The aid agency retains the right, however, to monitor the process Bechtel uses to select its subcontractors and to approve all but the most negligible awards.
DEA officials, who declined to speak on the record, said the agency retains its power to issue immediate suspension orders under the new law.
