The phrase "asserted about" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used incorrectly as "asserted" does not take "about" in this context; it is usually followed by a direct object.
Example: "The scientist asserted her findings were valid."
Alternatives: "claimed regarding" or "stated about".
Contrary to what is often asserted about the power of Britain's political and bureaucratic elite – my old chum Peter Oborne's ridiculous 2007 book The Triumph of the Political Class is a good example of that – we usually see a serious loss of nerve and the desire for a quiet life.
Provocateur-in-chief Donald Trump brought even more attention to the protests on September 28, when he asserted about the NFL owners, "I think they're afraid of their players, if you want to know the truth, and I think it's disgraceful". The political frenzy heightened even further a week later, when Vice President Mike Pence walked out of an NFL game in a protest of the protest.
Thus designating terms behave as they did before, but nothing can be truly asserted about non-designating terms.
So much of what Gamergate asserted about itself was that it wanted "objectivity" in journalism, but on closer examination this turned out to mean "function-first games reviewing".
There is very little beyond the basic facts of membership and its record of publications and conferences that can be asserted about it without courting some degree of controversy.
This policy contains a list of the claim types that must be asserted about the Internet user (henceforth abbreviated to user) in order for this user to be granted the service, the IdPs that are trusted to make such assertions, and the types of security token that are acceptable to the RP.
"Basically it's S-and-M porn," Vanda bluntly asserts about the script, riling the self-important Thomas, who corrects her with a half-hidden snarl.
Contrary to what Mr. Douthat asserts about the Vietnam War, in 1963, at American University, Kennedy stated that America would never start a war.
As a Protestant pastor, I have come to believe that what we assert about God is of no real importance to that "being".
The story itself was inspired by Bruce Springsteen's song "Spirit in the Night" and employs an epigraph from that song, but it is not, as Alterman asserts, "about its characters".
David Blackmon, the Texas state committee chairman for America's Natural Gas Alliance, said that while some details needed adjusting, most companies in his group had reacted positively to the bill as a way to address the widespread concerns — misplaced, the industry asserts — about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
