The phrase "asserts on the" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used incorrectly; the correct preposition should be "asserts that" or "asserts something."
Example: "The author asserts that the theory is valid based on recent findings."
Alternatives: "claims that" or "maintains that".
Playing with recent assertions that William Shakespeare was a Roman Catholic, Duffy asserts on the strength of a single famous but elusive phrase in one Shakespeare sonnet about "bare ruin'd quiers" that "In the mind and mouth of the most illustrious of all Elizabethans, the Tudor religious revolutions had elicited not even the most equivocal of endorsements".
"People can't connect to a band the way that they can to a solo artist," she asserts, on the phone from Washington, midway through a US tour supporting James Bay.
For example, Scanlon asserts (on the face of his principle of Fidelity) that the obligation of promise-keeping arises only when promisors know that their promisees "want to be assured" that the promised action will be performed (Scanlon 1998: 304).
So while Marinella asserts (on the authority of Aristotle and scripture) that we can know the souls of men and women to be forms of the same species, rational souls, and equal in that respect, she also insists that this fundamental sameness allows nonetheless for distinctions in merit.
For example, Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act did not set hiring goals, as Freedman asserts; on the contrary, Title VII's section 703j expressly stated that the act did not require employers to give ethnic preferences to balance their work forces.
It was difficult to assert on the one hand that all government "derives its just powers from the consent of the governed" while holding millions of human beings as slaves.
What position does Mr. West assert on the value of a college degree?
He rejected the claim to such authority, whether asserted on "the aristocratic principle" or on behalf of "the community".
We examine the impact that ecological issues assert on the position of landscape architecture within the requested skills and within the winning design team.
