The phrase "asserting the importance of this" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when emphasizing the significance or value of a particular point or topic in your writing.
Example: "In her presentation, she was asserting the importance of this issue to ensure that everyone understood its impact."
Alternatives: "emphasizing the significance of this" or "highlighting the value of this".
But, above all, it's about celebrating and asserting the importance of the local pub at a time when bland chain bars are becoming an increasingly common (and dull) part of the landscape and Camra research has shown that 26 British pubs close their doors forever each month, depriving many communities of their social hub.
Vice President Biden would be more likely to assert the importance of this new kind of trade deal, but it is by no means clear he is going to run.
The authors of that paper asserted the importance of this problem because of differences in antifungal susceptibility [ 3], especially the fact that the resistance rate to fluconazole and amphotericin B is high in C. guilliermondii.
Ninety-one former Democratic and Republican state Attorneys General and nine distinguished First Amendment law professors filed amicus briefs with the Supreme Court this week asserting the importance of requiring exacting, explicit quid pro quo proof in such cases.
Among those in the vanguard of asserting the importance of Chile in Darwin's thinking is Alvaro Fischer, director of the Foundation for Science and Evolution in Santiago.
Richard Powers compares poorly with these writers: his fictional work constantly asserts the importance of the human while never quite succeeding in enacting it.
This marked the beginning of the Ethical Movement, the aim of which was to assert the importance of the moral factor in all life's relations, without regard to considerations of a supreme being.
The hope is "to change the conversation and insert and assert the importance of the humanities and social sciences," said Pauline Yu, the president of the American Council of Learned Societies and a member of the 54-person commission.
The authors conclude their review asserting the importance of focusing research efforts in representation mechanisms for powerful semantics in order to move towards the development of semantic applications.
