The phrase "a position to assert" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's ability or authority to make a claim or statement about something.
Example: "In her role as the project manager, she is in a position to assert the team's priorities and objectives."
Alternatives: "an authority to claim" or "a stance to declare".
Instead, one is indicating that one is in a position to assert that such and such is the case (one has the proper credentials and reasons) in circumstances where it is necessary to resolve a doubt.
When these conditions are satisfied when one is, in fact, in a position to assert that such and such is the case one can correctly be said to know.
When those conditions are satisfied when one is, in fact, in a position to assert that such and such is the case one can correctly be said to know.
These forces were in a position to assert themselves until the spring of 2002, during the first year and a half of the current Palestinian uprising, when Israeli troops were making only periodic forays into Palestinian areas.
He suggested that other neighbors in the region would intervene on behalf of Iraqi factions: The Iranians don't want Sunni domination, therefore they will make sure that the Shia are in a position to assert their preëminence, if not their domination.
Since the earliest years of the Supreme Court's abortion jurisprudence, both the Supreme Court and the lower courts have regarded doctors and clinics as standing in the shoes of their abortion patients, entitled to assert rights that individual women are highly unlikely to be in a position to assert.
Mr Bolton is now our nation's chief UN envoy without the senate's endorsement and is in a weakened position to assert US interests.
Rather, Y objects on the grounds that X is not in an epistemic position to assert the binary disjunction.
Bowman himself stands in a peculiarly poor position to assert such a claim.
Wouldn't those communities now be much better off and in a much stronger position to assert their rights vis-à-vis Israel?
To recover domains that use their names, he said, "they would have the hurdle of showing they make commercial use of their name, and that might be a politically questionable position to assert in court".
