The phrase "attaining status" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of achieving a certain level of recognition, position, or prestige in a particular context.
Example: "After years of hard work and dedication, she finally felt that she was attaining status within the organization."
Alternatives: "gaining recognition" or "achieving standing."
So it seems managers must make a tradeoff between attaining status based on intimidation and getting status based on admiration.
"It was more about attaining status than finding love or even sex," he says.
As summarized in Figure 5, the Department has had a string of rapid successes and ambitious plans for attaining status as a school of public health in the next decade.
In a qualitative study of Australian Aboriginal women, young girls were found to start and continue smoking as a way of attaining status and asserting their Aboriginal identity such that it is seen as belonging to the group, rather than rebelling against it [ 31].
"You can attain status at any of these places by being a loyal patron," said Mr. Schwartz, who is a regular at Michael's.
If we're lucky, those of us lacking Y chromosomes can serve as status symbols, but rarely, it seems can we attain status on our own merits.
The reason I think it struggles successfully to attain status as either a truly successful thriller or tragedy is that the stakes are low.
Juvenile gangs often perform delinquent acts, not solely out of frustration with society but also out of a need to attain status within their group.
The Jewish Studies Program was founded as an extension of the Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures, now the Department of Near Eastern Studies, in 1973 and attained status as an intercollegiate program in 1976.
Nasts full-page illustration of Santa Claus in 1881 quickly attained status akin to an official portrait, and is still widely reproduced today.
And when people are in the same in-crowd, they help each other attain status and achieve goals.
