The phrase "asserted freedom" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the declaration or affirmation of one's freedom, often in a political or philosophical context.
Example: "The revolutionaries asserted freedom in their manifesto, demanding rights for all citizens."
Alternatives: "claimed liberty" or "proclaimed independence".
He added: "It would be absurd to assert freedom of speech in the abstract without exercising it in concrete terms".
According to western diplomats, the dispatch of the three ships was intended to assert freedom of navigation and also to reinforce a very small Ukrainian naval presence in the Sea of Azov.
The Pentagon is considering sending US military aircraft and ships to assert freedom of navigation around growing Chinese-made artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea, a US official has said.
The US says its decision to send a destroyer close to one of these islands this week, through waters over which China claims sovereignty, was to assert freedom of international passage.
The aggressive Chinese gesture comes at a time of rising tensions between China and the US in the South China Sea, where Beijing has claimed ownership of a number of reefs and small islands – which it is in the process of militarising – while the US navy has been conducting patrols nearby to assert freedom of navigation in the sea lanes.
Instead, he asserted that "freedom does not stop with individual rights".
The cable asserted that Freedom House had been successfully lobbied by a radical Shiite movement, known as Haq, which rejects the government's reform efforts.
These documents and declarations asserted that freedom is more than the right to cast a vote in an occasional election; it is the fundamental right of people to live their own lives.
"In the face of political revolution and private revenge," Stiles writes, "in the face of former slaves who now carried muskets and asserted their freedom, it was only a matter of time before the bushwhackers resisted".
IN the face of this long history of disobedience, it is hard to take seriously the claim by the Constitution's defenders that we would be reduced to a Hobbesian state of nature if we asserted our freedom from this ancient text.
