keep possession

The local influence of Roland de Burgo enabled him to keep possession of Clonfert from 1534 till his death in 1580.

But the Kaiser Karl V. quite refused to let him keep possession.

Whereupon Solyman left a garrison to keep possession of the city, and proceeded on his voyage to Diu.

I believe that the National Democracy can easily keep possession of the Territory.

One of the very interesting things it tells is the manner in which the lords and nobles keep possession of their titles.