The phrase "appear to assert" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing statements or claims that seem to express a particular viewpoint or belief.
Example: "The author’s arguments appear to assert that climate change is primarily caused by human activity."
Alternatives: "seem to claim" or "seem to indicate".
Others, however, appear to assert some rights to their innovations on the basis of community social norms.
Most of the media commentary after the speech has so far focused on this single point and most observers appear to assert that Obama's insistence on a deadline will help Al Qaeda and the Taliban who will, in their turn, wait until US forces depart and then step up their takeover efforts in the country.
Physicians appear to assert their status through behaviours that separate them from others, for instance, how they dress, or speak, or indeed where they choose to sit in the wards – often behind a large desk, quite distant from the patient.
He appeared to assert that a conviction of McDonnell would criminalize normal interactions between citizens and government officials.
Hinting that it has doubts about that, Verizon said the F.C.C. order "appears to assert broad authority for sweeping new regulation of broadband wireline and wireless networks and the Internet itself" without "solid statutory underpinnings".
That lack of clarity was underscored by a brief episode Tuesday when Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo). appeared to assert that military exercises with South Korea would continue based on what Vice President Pence told Senate Republicans.
: This column appears to assert that our system of government rule of law, checks and balances is not capable of fighting terrorism effectively, and must be changed to have more of the look and feel of a dictatorship.
Ironically, he appears to assert that the war in Iraq created the groundwork for recent uprisings in the Middle East, without realising that many regard these events as justifiable resistance to dictatorship.
If directly propositioning somebody for sex is automatically condemned as misogynist, as the campaign appears to assert, then the movement risks being highly counterproductive to the feminist cause and playing into the hands of the sexually repressive, patriarchal ideology that feminism strives to counter.
Marinella thus appears to assert that women do not desire men, but experience only a polite reciprocal affection for those men who love them.
