The phrase "assertion against" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is referring to a statement or claim that opposes or challenges something else.
Example: "The lawyer presented an assertion against the validity of the evidence provided by the prosecution."
Alternatives: "claim against" or "statement opposing".
A key difference being that, while Sinead's iconic shaved head was an assertion against traditional gender stereotypes, Miley's 'most modern version' is the opposite, conforming to pop culture's prioritising of overtly sexualised behaviour.
ACCURACY -- Many of the claims in this spot are not verifiable, with the most direct assertion against the president being the claim that his priorities are "eroding the American Dream".
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] After ploughing through your depressing but painfully accurate special article on what ails Africa ("The heart of the matter", May 13th), it was odd to find the confident assertion, against the weight of your own evidence, that Africa can change in a deep and sustainable manner.
The original Protestant assertion against the Catholic Church bases itself upon the authority of scripture.
I have a hard time understanding where the fraud assertion (against Armstrong) comes in".
Merging the "fight for assertion against merciless systems" with the first Weimar retrospective in the metropolis... Gender-bending as an art form: Reinhold Schunzel's Viktor und Viktoria was released in 1933, the year the Nazi Party came to power.... has created a new reality celebrating the biggest story of the 21st century, the rise of the feminine in equal partnership with the masculine.
He puts his face, his body, his voice, his own life into his film as an existential act of self-assertion against his effacement by the regime.
Mr. Perry brushed off the assertions against the organization.
Russian state media broadcast libellous assertions against western and Russian citizens.
And also, most crucially, impatient to test Wood's assertions against the work of the authors he writes about.
Meanwhile, one Romanian producer that processes horse meat, Carmolimp, called the French assertions against Romanian producers "shameful" and an "unprecedented attack" without merit.
