The phrase "assert that the ability" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when stating a claim or belief regarding someone's or something's capability or skill.
Example: "The researchers assert that the ability to adapt quickly is crucial for survival in changing environments."
Alternatives: "claim that the capacity" or "state that the capability".
Now, or after the election, or once a ninth justice is confirmed--at some point SCOTUS needs to respond to this challenge and assert that the ability to manipulate elections does not outweigh the right to have elections in the first place.
Koonin and Wolf go further to assert that the ability to demonstrate universal common ancestry (UCA) "… is unlikely to be feasible in principle".
The higher the income, the greater the likelihood that people would be willing to pay, confirming economic theory and other literature that assert that the ability to pay and WTP are closely related.
He asserted that "the ability to shape our law remains in the hands of the American people".
The majority draws an even more impermissible inference immediately thereafter in the opinion, where it asserts that the ability of the group to survive despite not receiving RSO status means that its rights were not meaningfully violated.
Practitioners of nouvelle AI assert that true intelligence involves the ability to function in a real-world environment.
"We do not assert that this ability was absent, although it may have been". As for why Polynesians took to the seas so often, drought and disputes over land might have played a role, they added.
The trained attention hypothesis asserts that ability to filter irrelevant information could improve through frequent practice multitasking (Alzahabi & Becker, 2013; Ophir et al., 2009).
We now assert that is bounded on the set.
"You are simply wrong to assert that the FBI and the Justice Department lied about our ability to access the San Bernardino killer's phone," Comey said.
