The phrase "assert unity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to emphasize the importance of coming together or maintaining a cohesive front, often in discussions about teamwork, community, or ideology.
Example: "In times of crisis, it is essential for leaders to assert unity among their followers to overcome challenges together."
Alternatives: "promote togetherness" or "declare solidarity".
As I prepared to dust off my Persian and decipher some stelae, I thought back to a book I had read called Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light, a compilation of Chinese Sufi texts with gems like this: "Asserting unity [tawhid] is to make the heart one.
Over a silver service dinner this evening, EU leaders will once again seek to assert that unity, when they repeat their well-worn lines that the UK cannot cherrypick the best bits of the EU.
After Boniface issued the bull Unam sanctam ("One Holy"), which asserted the unity of the church and the authority of the pope over kings, Philip rallied the people of France and accused Boniface of blasphemy, murder, sodomy, and other crimes.
In asserting the unity of the soul (i.e. spirit), Telesio followed the medical theorist Giovanni Argenterio (1513 1572), who defended the unity of the spirit against the Aristotelian and medical traditions.
The Lotus Sutra had made upāya the centerpiece of Buddhism, and asserted a unity of all practices in the One Vehicle, all leading toward Buddhahood.
Touching on a still more sensitive point, it charged that by asserting "the unity of truth" the Pope was blurring the line between church norms and articles of faith and enlisting "the concepts of fundamental truth and divine revelation" as a way of smothering debate on such sensitive issues as birth control.
The second is that Philo asserted 'the unity of the Academy' in the Roman Books (see Cicero Ac. 1.13), i.e. claimed that his new view was in fact the underlying view of all the Academics from Socrates and Plato to himself.
It was the year that black track and field medal winners asserted their unity with the Black Power Movement when they protested with raised fists on an awards stand at the Mexico City Olympics.
Next, the DPJ would have to clarify its policy platform (necessarily a fraught process, given its faction-ridden internal structure and lack of ideological unity) and assert control over a civil service that has become used to working with the LDP.
Cultural transformation requires leaders to assert their influence through unity of effort and action, while compliance-driven transformation often fails.
