The phrase "asserted the need for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing a strong statement or claim about the necessity of something.
Example: "The committee asserted the need for improved safety measures in the workplace."
Alternatives: "stated the necessity for" or "declared the importance of".
In March Chuka Umunna, Labour's shadow business secretary, asserted the need for "smarter use of public procurement to back our target industries".
Aristotle had asserted the need for a unity of time: "Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit".
Dostoevsky rejected the idea that people act in accordance to reason or their best interests and asserted the need for them to be able to behave as they choose, without fitting into Enlightenment ideas of "progress".
The difficulties of that relationship were demonstrated when - after victory was largely won - blacks asserted the need for an all-black leadership of one of the main civil rights groups.
Launching the online encyclopedia project, Schlafly asserted the need for an alternative to Wikipedia due to editorial philosophy conflicts.
They also asserted the need for larger deployments.
The leaders of the youth climate movement and beyond are committed to asserting the need for bold action that circumstances necessitate.
The alternative to Montalembert's doctrine was no longer an unconditional attachment to the principles of the ancien régime but a new kind of Ultramontanism, asserting the need for concentrating church authority in the pope's hands.
Thus we assert the need for a mass gathering of people every month in Parliament Square until the general election, simultaneously putting pressure on politicians while creating a space where people can learn about corporate influence and experience true democracy.
Some would assert the need for both individual rights and "group rights"—the ability of freely constituted institutions, including churches and other faith communities, to live by their own rules and encourage others to do so.
That said, he has continued to assert the need for creative control: last week the company dismissed its European design staff, adding the duties for creating lines for international markets to Mr. Robinson's purview.
