The phrase "assert directly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to emphasize the act of stating something clearly and unequivocally.
Example: "In her speech, she chose to assert directly her views on climate change without any hesitation."
Alternatives: "state clearly" or "declare outright".
The indictment, part of a long-awaited report about the attacks running nearly 1,500 pages, did not assert directly that the plotters had been motivated by anger at the policies of Spain's government.
But in I.R.A. parlance, the execution of drug dealers is not normally a military operation, and the statement did not assert directly that the group had no involvement in the killing this week of a reputed drug dealer, Brendan Campbell, who was a Catholic, and of Robert Dougan, a Protestant member of the outlawed Ulster Defense Association, a paramilitary group.
The Supreme Court upheld that decision, rejecting IDT counsel's contentions during oral argument that the claims against HJ, to the extent valid at all, were derivative and therefore belonged to Straight Path and could not be asserted directly by the minority investors.
One possibility is that it provides a ready and convenient rallying point for corporate America in its defense against the demands of institutional investors (frequently spearheaded by activist investors, but increasingly asserted directly by traditional asset managers) for better corporate performance.
Exactly how this has come to pass, I assert, is directly related to how "colonial entitlement" continues to pervade academic forums.
"Nobody will believe that you're smart if you don't believe it," she emphatically asserted, not directly at me yet I could feel the rebuke in her words.
Likewise, for elementary school children, a similar pattern was confirmed, except that Japanese children preferred more assertive strategies relative to their college cohorts, and Chinese children were generally not as apt to adopt assertive strategies, yet they would choose to assert themselves more directly when faced with a conflict of opinion with friends.
Mrs. Clinton suggested negotiations were too delicate to assert herself more directly.
Chinese authorities have also sought to assert control by directly warning some online services.
California's leaders also complain about voters' ability to assert their will directly through the state's freewheeling system of ballot initiatives.
A staunch imperialist, he thought the British government should assert itself more directly rather than permit men like Cecil Rhodes to determine the character of British expansion.
