The phrase "asserted on the ground" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing claims or statements that are based on specific evidence or reasoning.
Example: "The lawyer asserted on the ground that the evidence was insufficient to support the charges."
Alternatives: "claimed based on" or "stated on the basis of".
The second set of issues arises when preemption is asserted on the basis of regulations, orders, or other agency activity, rather than grounded in the relevant statute itself.
As a piece on Slate said last year: "First-person essays have become the easiest way for editors to assert an on-the-ground primacy without paying for reporting," and are "the easiest way to jolt an increasingly jaded internet to attention".
The conditional, like the disjunction, according to Grice, is true if he's in the pub, but misleadingly asserted on that ground.
"They're taking us back to the status of a mandatory state," he asserts.On the ground, the opposition appears stronger.
Hence, a decision must be asserted on the TMP.
Mr. O'Brien, who asserted jurisdiction on the ground that MySpace is based in Los Angeles, where its servers are housed, said the verdict sent an "overwhelming message" to users of the Internet.
The importance of destroying enemy air defenses and establishing supremacy in the air in order to assert mastery on the ground was reinforced during the Operation Desert Storm air offensive of the Persian Gulf War (1990 91).
In the middle years of the twentieth century some philosophers even asserted, on conceptual grounds, that political obligation needs no justification.
Once more, the "primacy of foreign policy" is asserted on flimsy grounds.
Hume's critical attitude toward metaphysics is subsequently taken up by Kant, although Kant famously asserts on practical grounds some of the very same metaphysical theses that he argues cannot be asserted on theoretical grounds.
