'maintain the position of' is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that is being held or kept in its present location, rank, or state. For example, "We must maintain the position of our flag at the top of the pole at all times."
He observed that the central policy goal was to maintain the "position of disparity" that separated our enormous wealth from the poverty of others.
"I really need to maintain the position of someone who gets the newspaper outside his door, fresh and new," Mr. Okrent said in an interview.
"We maintain the position of not permitting the oil company to enter," Cesar Nacua Uakui, from a village called Estirón on the Peruvian side, told the meeting.
It's very important now to look forwards to an orderly transition to a new board, and work to maintain the position of the Poetry Society as a leading arts organisation," she said.
After the weakening of the position of the Zhou king in the feudal structure, he was not able to maintain the position of being the head of a large family in any more than a normal sense.
Various methods have been introduced to maintain the position of the mandibular condyle in SSRO.
The control object is to maintain the positions of follower helicopters in formation with external interferences.
Those that were large, replicated and could maintain the positioning of the primer:template, M250F/Y, retained ETV susceptibility.
This randomization maintain the positions of all nodes in the regulatory network exactly.
Each physiotherapist was assisted by the same fourth physiotherapist who did not perform any measurement and only helped maintain the positions of the subjects and recorded the scores.
However, experimentally all excised roots, including the smallest roots with the least tissue left above the QC, were able to maintain the positioning of the auxin maximum for more than 4 d.
