The phrase "asserted connections" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing claims or statements about relationships or links between concepts, ideas, or entities.
Example: "The researcher presented several asserted connections between climate change and biodiversity loss in her paper."
Alternatives: "claimed links" or "stated relationships".
As always, Mr. Bush finished his speech here, his last of this election season, with an assault on Saddam Hussein, who he asserted had connections to the Qaeda terrorist network and was a threat to the United States.
Famous forensic psychiatrists like Cesare Lombroso, the Italian professor of criminal anthropology, asserted a connection between genius and mental instability.
It is most frequently asserted in connection with murder cases requiring proof of a particular mental state on the part of the accused.
Five case studies were presented, and the report asserted a connection between the homosexuality of the men and the development of pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, a disease largely limited to people with failed immune systems.
He asserted his connection with us.
Hughes regularly brought together seeming opposites in ways that simultaneously asserted their connection and transgressed conventional relations of power.
In 2000, the Texas attorney general said that asserting that connection was both false and unconstitutional.
What a disappointment to see The New York Times publish an article that asserts a connection between political donations and rewards to lawyers representing whistle-blowers, using me as an example ("A Legal Circle Reaches Deep to Aid Obama," front page, Oct. 2).
In contrast, exclusive cp laws assert the connection between antecedent and consequent only under the condition that certain factors are excluded.
How dare these virtual strangers assert a connection to him and his business?
