The phrase "asserting as" is not commonly used in written English and may be considered awkward or incorrect in certain contexts.
It can be used when someone is claiming or stating something in a particular role or capacity, but it is often better to use more standard expressions.
Example: "He is asserting as the leader of the project, despite not having been officially appointed."
Alternatives: "claiming to be" or "stating as".
It may be that a philosophical belief in universal human rights can survive the rejection of God as easily as a scientific belief that F=MA, but asserting as much doesn't make it so.
White House officials had scrambled to head off the refusal, asserting as late as Thursday evening that Mr. Harward, who is close to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, was still in the running to become Mr. Trump's national security adviser.
If passed, it would force plaintiffs to be more specific about the patents they are asserting as infringed.
That was oddly emphatic, asserting as fact what was only a North Korean claim, contradicted by repeated test launches that have ended in failure.
The look of startled fear on his face neither reflected nor inspired the quiet strength and resolve that he kept asserting as the country's response.
Mr. Grogan sent a letter to the Essex County prosecutor, Donald C. Campolo, asserting as much, but the state has not pursued the matter.
Additionally, the Court will determine whether the standard articulated in Glossip v. Gross, which requires inmates asserting facial challenges to the states' method of execution to plead a readily available alternative method of execution, further extends to inmates asserting as-applied challenges.
"The Revolution made them," Rakove asserts, "as much as they made the Revolution".
Wages would stay high, he asserted, as long as there was a "safety valve" (i.e., cheap farmland) to draw off excess workers.
The English writer Bernard Mandeville asserted as much nearly three centuries ago in a satirical-poem-cum-philosophical-treatise called "The Fable of the Bees".
Both President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush confidently asserted as much.
