The phrase "assert a time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to declare or state a specific time for an event or action.
Example: "During the meeting, she will assert a time for the project deadline."
Alternatives: "declare a time" or "specify a time."
Solon lived after Pisistratus seized the government, as Heraclides Ponticus asserts, a long time; but Phanias the Eresian says not two full years; for Pisistratus began his tyranny when Comias was archon, and Phanias says Solon died under Hegestratus, who succeeded Comias.
The distinctly low level of Muslim protest against the Rushdie knighthood - here, a leading member of the Muslim Council of Britain said he'd been wrong to campaign for Satanic Verses to be banned - shows that this is a time to assert a free-speech, civil-libertarian stance on religion in the public realm.
"Propositions may assert an identity of time, space, manner, quantity, degree, or any other circumstance in which things may agree or differ" (Jevons 1874: 36).
CDC's latest review of the available evidence, published yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine, convinced the agency to definitively assert a link, The New York Times reports.
During that time, Conta delivered powerful testimony against the defendants, firmly asserting time after time that they violated Police Department policy when they continued to strike and kick King after he was knocked to the ground.
In 2009, after The Guardian first reported that the scale of the hacking had been far greater than initially revealed by the police, Mr. Hayman asserted in a Times column that the initial inquiry was not a "half-hearted investigation — we put our best detectives on the case and left no stone unturned as officials breathed down our neck".
And, as I have asserted a number of times on these pages, geology runs as surely under the skin of every gardener as every garden.
Before heading home for Mario's 7 15 P.M. bedtime, Hilton described a recent occasion when Mario had, for the first time, asserted a strong difference of opinion with his father.
Proponents of Jackson's Florida campaigns claimed a place for the United States as a member of the European diplomatic community while at the same time asserting a regional sphere of influence and new rules regarding the application of international law.
Republicans accuse the Democrats of stalling on spending bills and assert every time an agreement is near, the White House asks for more money.
