The phrase "asserts the general" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is making a statement or claim about a general principle or idea.
Example: "In her essay, she asserts the general notion that education is a fundamental right for all individuals."
Alternatives: "claims the general" or "states the general".
Spokesmen for the Moral Majority connected it to God's will, asserting the general public needed protection from "the gay plague", and warned, "If homosexuals are not stopped they will infect the entire nation and America will be destroyed".
She might have asserted the more general principle that consistent anything in a character can prove tedious.
"Yes!" asserted the tourist-general.
NBC executives asserted that the general's relationships with military contractors are indirectly disclosed through NBC's Web site, where General McCaffrey's biography now features a link to his consulting firm's Web site.
In no other case for many years has this jurisdiction been asserted, and the general acquiescence of legal men shows the prevalence of opinion in favor of the negative of the proposition.
It might be asserted that the general type of motif – for instance FFL rather than 3-cycle – is selected because of a general propriety to serve a particular function (For example, Alon et al. [ 1] pointed out that a FFL with AND logic at the output node can function as a filter rejecting transient stimuli).
In this way, the organization of the Treatise asserted the superiority of general and universal knowledge over military, mantic, and medical knowledge, deliberately framed as technical and limited in nature.
Atkinson, however, tied this goal to a need to assert the existence of a general shortage.
General Vahidi asserted the episode took place in Iranian airspace but did not specify where.
The Roanoke Times reported Sunday that it too had recently received a FOIA response from the attorney general that asserted the FOIA does not apply to the office.
