The phrase "retain office" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone maintaining their place in a position of authority or political power. Example: The incumbent candidate was able to retain office after the election.
Most incumbents are prepared to adopt any expedient to pursue policy objectives and to retain office.
His party won enough seats for him to retain office, but he will be forced to recruit centrist lawmakers for a coalition that might temper his policies.
Efforts by members of Mr Wahid's cabinet to forge a compromise, in which he would retain office while ceding most executive power to Miss Megawati, have foundered.
The governing Coalition has ruled out any new national parks should it retain office, while the Greens support the new listing.
Its report, issued in early 1983, was severely critical of Sharon, who was found "indirectly responsible" for the massacres and was declared unfit to retain office as defense minister.
Williams said the LNP wiping the slate clean was unlikely to sway either the electorate or the three crossbenchers, all of whose support it would need to retain office.
A number of unions also backed the measure, as did some Asian-American groups, which said it would help Asian-American politicians retain offices frequently won with great difficulty.
Assuming the reins of government on May 2 , 1945 Dönitz retained office for only a few days.
Bird retained office until his retirement in 1994, after which his son, Lester, served as prime minister from 1994 to 2004.
What are his chances of retaining office, and what will it take for Mitt Romney to capture the White House?
Nevertheless, Menzies retained office; but internal division persisted, the coalition's parliamentary majority was tiny, and Menzies resigned in August 1941.
