The phrase "assert long term" is not correct as it lacks clarity and context in written English.
It could be used in discussions about making claims or statements regarding long-term outcomes or effects, but it needs additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "In our analysis, we need to assert long term benefits of the new policy to stakeholders."
Alternatives: "claim long-term" or "declare long-term".
Echoing the views of many economists, the foundation report asserts: "Long-term investment in public infrastructure is the best way to simultaneously create jobs, crowd in private investment, make the economy more productive and generate a multiplier of growth in other sectors of the economy".
We assert that long-term ecological change in human dominated landscapes is not well understood, in part, because of inadequate modeling techniques.
They assert a long-term effect, called off-target effect (Keiser et al., 2009; Lamb, 2007; Lamb et al., 2006; MacDonald et al., 2006), on gene transcription-related molecules through the downstream signals along the pathway.
The recent increase in the frequency and success with which "willful blindness" theories have been asserted in litigation may have long term implications for the corporate director's liability profile.
These authors assert that disruption strategies must be long term efforts as networks recover to attack in such a manner that they become more efficient and resilient (as discussed earlier in this article).
The United States must continue to assert its leadership, but in the long term it will succeed only through a strategy of international cooperation -- whether the goal is capturing terrorists or confronting rogue nations.
We call it Mutually Assured Survival, and we are encouraged that Secretary Hagel asserts his intention to address the long term in his short-term Pentagon decision-making.
But she asserted that undermining fundamental environmental safeguards will do long term damage.
UPDATE: An earlier version of this post incorrectly asserted that Alan Greenspan convened private bankers to address the crisis at Long Term Capital Management.
Nevertheless, some economists and political scientists asserted, there was a relationship between the economy and elections in the long term.
