The phrase "asserting a question" is not commonly used in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where someone is emphasizing or stating a question rather than simply asking it.
Example: "In the meeting, she was asserting a question about the project's timeline, making sure everyone understood the urgency."
Alternatives: "posing a question" or "stating a question".
Nor do the police score high with civil libertarians for asserting a right to question arrested protesters about their politics, albeit anonymously.
Illocutionary acts are such acts as asserting, asking a question, warning, threatening, announcing a verdict or intention, making an appointment, giving an order, expressing a wish, making a request.
Whether the courage needed to confront disapproval and even violence for the sake of telling the truth and removing an unjust stigma is as "incompatible with military service" as the Joint Chiefs wished to assert was a question my own experience made me address with urgent passion.
America's birth charter, the Declaration of Independence, asserts a positive answer to the question, and in lieu of an argument offers another assertion: that our equality is self-evident.
Some of the opinions cited by the Government, asserting that materiality was a question of "law" for the judge, appear to have involved either demurrers to the indictment or appeals from convictions in which the case for materiality was so weak that no reasonable juror could credit it--so that even on our view of the matter the case should not have gone to the jury.
Global Times, a sometimes stridently nationalistic newspaper affiliated with People's Daily, published a news article on Thursday asserting that questions about Okinawa's sovereignty could help China in its long-running territorial dispute with Japan over seven uninhabited islands northeast of Taiwan, known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China and Taiwan.
In it, Rawidowicz shifted his decades-long preoccupation with the "Jewish Question" to what he called the "Arab Question". Asserting that the "Arab Question" had become a most urgent political and moral matter for Jews after 1948, Rawidowicz called for an end to discrimination against Arabs resident in Israel--and more provocatively, for the repatriation of Arab refugees from 1948.
Trump, in appealing to his most conservative supporters, tried to move past a week of vacillating on immigration, his signature issue, by asserting that the question of what to do with 11 million people in the U.S illegally is not central to the problem.
Mr. Kerry also asserted, in response to a question from a high school student about the possibility of another military draft, "If you elect me president of the United States, I will give us a foreign policy that absolutely makes it unnecessary to have a draft in this nation".
While Kuras asserts it's not a question of skill or craft.
