The phrase "asserting instead of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two actions or approaches, indicating a preference for one over the other.
Example: "He is asserting instead of merely suggesting his ideas during the meeting."
Alternatives: "declaring rather than" or "stating instead of".
The Peak was magnificently oblivious of such uncertainty, asserting instead the liberating power of inventing new forms and spaces.
Nondualism denies the presence of the implied ontological gap separating these constituents of reality, asserting instead that everything is (ultimately) one or the same.
The airline's management, which last year ordered a top-down audit of its safety procedures, has rejected criticism of its pilot training program and has asserted instead that a "misleading" pattern of cockpit alarms on the Airbus jet contributed to the crew's difficulties.
What it asserts instead is that every member of the reference class possesses a certain disposition, which in the case of statistical laws is of probabilistic strength and in the case of universal laws of universal strength.
The force fictionalist holds that the content expressed in an (ordinary) utterance of a sentence of D is not asserted: instead some other speech act is performed.
These therapists assert, instead, that gender confusion is a result of childhood trauma and that sexual orientation can be reshaped.
They assert, instead, that he makes a full-time living as an expert witness.
To avoid this kind of misleading inference, the constituent parts of a nucleotide in ChEBI are now represented using has_functional_parent assertions instead of explicitly asserted is_a relationships.
Thayer dismisses the aposematism of these species, instead asserting the effectiveness of their camouflage: Several photographs using stuffed skins of skunks attempt to prove the point.
The only thing Dutt conceded was an "error in judgment" when talking someone with a vested interest like Radia, and asserted that the instead of attacking her, the debate should have been more broadly about the rules journalists need to follow.
