"maintain stature" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe when someone is upholding their reputation or attempting to maintain a certain level of public status. For example, "Despite the scandal, she managed to maintain her stature in the public eye."
Now, executives close to the program say, Ms. Chen is doing what she can to maintain her stature as a newscaster, fighting with "Big Brother" scriptwriters, who have been handing her lines that are hardly the stuff of news people.
Now, executives close to the program say, Ms. Chen is doing what she can to maintain her stature as a newscaster, heatedly fighting with "Big Brother" scriptwriters, who have been handing her lines that are hardly the stuff of network news people.
Is it a coincidence that Fazlullah rose to prominence on the backs of the most vulnerable, by spreading misinformation and fear and that he ' tried to maintain his stature and public standing by attacking those most vulnerable and least likely to resist"?
In our case, the merger of New York and Presbyterian Hospitals was essential for maintaining our stature as an institution recognized for its clinical excellence, advanced medical treatments, pioneering research and high-quality training and education.
Governor Mark Carney has met senior figures in the City to stress the need for a smooth path out of the European Union that maintains its stature and strong links with the continent.
Today, despite anemic profits and an elfin footprint that would make it a backwater bank in other locales, Riggs has maintained its stature by catering to the glamorous, chauffeur-and-Champagne set that is Washington's elite political and diplomatic corps.
Despite the long time period since their arrival to Europe from Asia, the Romani maintain significantly smaller stature in terms of body height and weight and percentage of body fat, and a trend toward lower concentrations of the thyroid hormone thyroxine (Ginter et al. 2001); thus genetic differences cannot be excluded.
In announcing the testing regimen, Selig stated that baseball would "continue to do everything we can to maintain a leadership stature in antidoping efforts in the years ahead".
Prune small holly shrubs to maintain their small stature and eliminate long offshoots.
Mr. Grubman, then the most powerful telecommunications analyst on Wall Street, certainly had the stature to maintain his hold rating on AT&T.
