The phrase "assert order" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is emphasizing the need to establish or maintain order, such as in discussions about management, law, or organization.
Example: "In times of chaos, it is crucial to assert order to ensure the safety and well-being of everyone involved."
Alternatives: "establish order" or "enforce order".
Jacobs considered both ideas anti-city, hopeless efforts to assert order on a messy metropolis, to give the city "all the attributes of a well-kept, dignified cemetery".
"It's not like 'Baretta' in the 70's, a tough guy fighting the system, it's people in the system who can assert order over chaos," said Gil Schwartz, CBS's executive vice president in charge of communications.
The best hope now – indeed, the only hope – is that the regional powers can assert order, as Syria's dictator did in Lebanon after the failure of western "policing" in the 1980s.
Schmitt, perturbed into asserting order, stutter-stepped into the guest's path, asking, "But, that that that practice has stopped at this point, Ms. Kirkpatrick, right?" Mele backed him up with a miserably incomplete assertion.
He was trying, however trivially, to assert some order, though both he and we knew that his soul was in disarray.
Unaccountable, anonymous users who troll comments have plagued news sites ever since threads were first opened, and it's to assert some order that many sites resort to letting Facebook guard their comments.
Their aim, according to General Kamal's source, was to launch a series of spectacular attacks in Baghdad and thereby undermine Maliki's Shia-majority government, which had for the first time begun to assert some order in post-civil war Iraq.
BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1 Indonesia Limits Rural Relief Indonesia's military, in an effort to assert control, ordered restrictions on foreign aid workers, limiting their free operation to two main cities hit by the tsunami.
The cedar beams provide the Minimalist part, a grid that intermittently asserts its order on the creviced surface, across changing textures and patches of light and dark.
The central section was a passage of barely contained anarchy, a solo piano struggling to assert its Baroque order amid otherworldly wailings from the orchestra.
The losses and restrictions that came from the war greatly widened the breach between the colonies and the mother country; moreover, it was necessary to assert independence in order to secure as much French aid as possible.
