The phrase "retain positions" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to keep or maintain a particular status or role. Example: The company announced that they will be laying off some employees, but they assured the remaining ones that they will retain their positions and responsibilities within the company.
It is also the case in most nations of the former Soviet Union, where top Communist officials retain positions of influence and can block any moves to bring the old regime's criminals to account.
In addition, the money will help to create a number of research, engineering and other jobs at the laboratory, and allow administrators to retain positions that might otherwise have been eliminated.
The Bosnian Croats based their decision on a change in election laws last year that they say makes it impossible to retain positions that they have held since the Dayton pact.
They see Mr Hadi as a loyal servant of Mr Saleh and fear he has neither the will nor the clout to purge the numerous relatives of the ex-president who retain positions in the security forces.
The marriage would help both companies retain positions of power in a grocery industry that includes home-delivery companies, online food retailers such as Amazon Fresh, upscale supermarkets such as Whole Foods and more, he said.
Furthermore, Watson Crick pairing and all other hallmarks of the reaction-ready state are preserved, including the water molecules that participate in the WMSA mechanism, which retain positions to permit shuttling of the O3′ proton to the γ-phosphate.
Chang and co-workers have demonstrated that fibroblasts cultured from different regions of the body retain position-specific expression signatures [ 9].
In contrast, FID3B yielded 28,036 discarded positions and 61,248 retained positions, resulting in 89,284 positions in total with a much lower discard rate of 31.4%.
For the grid dataset (Fig. 6A), 3B yielded 36,756 discarded positions and 36,311 retained positions, resulting in a total of 73,067 positions with a discard rate of 50.3%.
For the gradient grid dataset (Fig. 6B), 3B yielded 40,792 discarded positions and 31,938 retained positions, resulting in a total of 72,730 positions with a discard rate of 56.1%.
I do not claim that they are innocent, but there is something fundamentally wrong when mere allegations can drive persons from seeking or retaining positions of importance -- or any position for that matter.
