'retaining flexibility' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone or something being able to adapt and change to different conditions or situations. For example, "By retaining flexibility in our approach, we can better serve our customers."
Smart politicians know how to sound tough in negotiations, while retaining flexibility too.
American negotiators here had pushed hard to get developing countries, including emerging economic giants like China and India, to agree to seek cuts while retaining flexibility on how to make them.
He has loaned the material under the UEA's innovative storehouse model, which organises and provides access to collections much earlier in a writer's career while retaining flexibility should they need to withdraw the material at a later date.
Jones says: "Cognisec Workspace provides exceptional capability for controlling and encrypting access management whilst retaining flexibility around home working and BYOD [bring your own device]." Crunch is a UK-based online accountancy firm, which looks after freelance, contractor and small business accounts for a flat monthly fee.
There is a trade-off between communities having clear future plans for steps in the process and retaining flexibility and versatility.
Several neutrino beam optics configurations and target designs have been studied with the goal of producing a facility with high efficiency while retaining flexibility.
An advantage to this type of directly induced polyphenism is that it potentially retains flexibility to changing environments: if maximally flexible, an organism will be immediately adapted to an environment that has never been encountered without any need for a selective shift in reaction norms or other developmental responses.
And the authorities will need to retain flexibility to respond to shocks, the report added.
The European Union responded Tuesday by expanding its support for Somalia's interim government and pledging to retain flexibility in its operations against pirates.
But the Obama administration needs to retain flexibility and leverage – given how difficult it has been to exert outside influence to now.
You wouldn't call it fresh, but it still has much to offer and retains flexibility and a capacity for shading.
