The phrase "attain standing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or formal contexts to refer to gaining the right to bring a lawsuit or to be recognized in a particular situation.
Example: "In order to file a lawsuit, the plaintiff must first attain standing in the court."
Alternatives: "gain standing" or "achieve standing".
Honorees must maintain a 3.2 cumulative grade-point average, attained sophomore standing academically and competed in at least half of their team's contests.
All data was collected 10 min after the anesthetic machine was disconnected and 30 min after the horse attained a standing position.
Cadets at southern military academies could attain social standing among their male peers through education, character, and professionalism without possessing plantations and slaves.
In her 2002 editorial in Nature Medicine, Nancy Andrews, now the Dean of Medicine at Duke University, noted that women physician-scientists may feel as though they must "outcompete" and "overachieve" relative to their male counterparts to attain equal standing [6].
About 90% of all semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and more than half of the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title, the release said.
Then they were lifted off their original rigid substrates to attain self-standing mirrors, and stuck to each other to yield a thin (1 mm) stable film, which we labeled ZST-3.
In our case, we applied a similar procedure that the one reported to attain self-standing mirrors embedding porous multilayers made of nanoparticles, which involved the cooling of the hybrid film down to the glass transition temperature of the infiltrated polymer.
Jesus continues to bring hope to us all precisely because he attained salvation without standing in a unique relation to the indwelling spirit of God (WNT).
But as the dust settles on the great expectations and lost illusions of musical modernism, Bartok's works have attained a standing in the concert repertory surpassing those of his old rivals, and his six string quartets, in particular, have come to embody the musical essence of a chaotic century.
Now that the company has attained solid standing, with its stock price growing 20% in the past five years, Rite Aid is looking to expand its number of stores from the current 3,350.
After attaining commercial standing with his 2010 debut album All I Want Is You, Miguel wanted to play a larger creative role in his music and principally produced and wrote Kaleidoscope Dream.
