The phrase "assertion in the first" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to refer to an assertion made in the first part of a discussion or text, but it needs more context to be usable.
Example: "The assertion in the first paragraph of the article sets the tone for the entire discussion."
Alternatives: "claim in the beginning" or "statement in the first part".
The senator from Vermont made the same assertion in the first debate, and he was pressed by CBS News's John Dickerson, the debate moderator on Saturday, on whether his view had changed in light of the terrorist attacks in Paris a day earlier.
I also disagree with the assertion (in the first paragraph of the subsection headed "Binding of BRD4 to P-TEFb increases CDK9's catalytic activity and resistance to inhibition") that MYC induction is happening "before" CDK9 inactivation, because it rests on a false assumption: that decay of phospho-Ser2 and -Spt5 signals provides an instantaneous measurement of kinase activity in vivo.
Contrary to Trump's assertion in the second tweet, the U.S. government officially accused Russia in October of attempting to interfere in the 2016 elections through a hacking campaign.
Briefly stated, the assertion in the fourth assignment of error is that the act of assembly deprives the plaintiffs in error of their property without due process of law, by subjecting it to the burden of the additional taxation which would result from the consolidation.
The uproar was over an assertion in the second paragraph that during McCain's first run for the White House eight years ago, some of his top advisers became "convinced" he was having a "romantic" relationship with a female lobbyist and intervened to protect the candidate from himself.
Despite the contributions of Anselm in the eleventh century on questions concerning free choice, divine foreknowledge and predestination, and Peter Abelard's startling assertion in the twelfth century that morality arises from the agent's intention alone, it is not until the thirteenth century that a scientific approach to human moral reasoning takes shape.
I am reminded of Colette's assertion that in the first years after her mother died, she felt that she had lost her, but that in the decades following, they became closer than they had ever been before.
In the first, he is at once an earnest policeman and an example of young African-American self-assertion; in the second, he is a mature doctor and a rebellious son.
One sticking point was Kipnis' assertion that in the second case she described, the unnamed professor and the graduate student were dating.
For instance, do the assertions made in the fourth paragraph of the Discussion on CFR linked to species and notification date seem present in other outbreaks?
That an unsupportable assertion concerning President Bush in the first paragraph and an uncalled-for attack on "the people who guard and guide us now" in the final paragraph passed muster confirms that adult supervision continues to be in short supply at The New York Times.
