The phrase "assert first" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you want to emphasize the importance of making an assertion before other actions or statements.
Example: "In our discussion, it's crucial to assert first your main argument before addressing counterpoints."
Alternatives: "state initially" or "declare first".
Corporations can own property, sue people and be sued, even assert First Amendment rights.
A company, as an eighteenth-century British jurist once remarked, has "no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked". Corporations can own property, sue people and be sued, even assert First Amendment rights.
However, those questions are not before us, since the addressees assert First Amendment claims in their own right: they contend that the Government is powerless to interfere with the delivery of the material because the First Amendment 'necessarily protects the right to receive it.' Martin v. City of Struthers, 319 U.S. 141, 143, 63 S.Ct.
Having previously reserved the question of whether federal statutory rights could be enforced in state courts,37 the Court in Alden v. Maine38 held that states could also assert Eleventh Amendment "sovereign immunity" in their own courts.
It asserts, first, that organisms evince to have been designed; and second, that only God could account for the design.
Judge Conrad Cyr in his opinion asserted First Amendment protection for libraries.
Another way of putting this is that those who assert the rights of animals are in effect asserting – first and foremost – a right to life for all animals.
Brewer asserts, " 'First catch your hare,' is a very old phrase... .. then it points to a passage in "the 13th century Bracton".
By contrast, the synthetic style of presentation begins by asserting first principles and then to determining what follows.
Perkins asserted, first, that Jesus meant this parable to be a positive example for his followers; and second, that the parable demonstrates that Jesus supported unrestricted, free-market capitalism.
As Ars Technica reports, Microsoft filed an additional brief on Sunday night arguing that it has "special circumstances" as a third party asserting fourth amendment rights on behalf of its users.
