The phrase "asserts when" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a specific condition or time under which something is claimed or stated to be true.
Example: "The report asserts when the data was collected, it was accurate and reliable."
Alternatives: "claims that" or "states that."
With few exceptions, the suit asserts, when Katz called Madoff's firm, "he did not speak to anyone other than Madoff".
First, one might maintain that what one asserts, when one asserts (1), is simply true or false, and not true now but false later, true here but false in some other community where Valla is more highly esteemed than Petrarch, true in α but false in other possible worlds.
This is what Holocaust deniers assert when confronted with camp survivors, and it was what apologists for Stalinism asserted when faced with veterans of the gulag.
But, he asserted, "when it comes to health care, it's a mess in Texas".
The Gingrich grandiosity was on display, King asserted, when the new frontrunner "compared his wife to Jacqueline Kennedy and Laura Bush and Nancy Reagan".
The importance of the political order was, thus, negligible, as Jesus himself asserted when he said, "My kingship is not of this world".
But Israel tried that with Hezbollah in Lebanon and failed, leaving Hezbollah leaders to assert when the war was over that they had stood up to Israel.
The gaps projected for the next two years, however, are projected to be bigger than Mr. Pataki had asserted when the Legislature overrode his budget.
But all will travel from point A to point B. In contrast, and despite what conservatives assert, when patients need care there are rarely low-, medium- and high-cost options; the choices tend to be black and white.
It turns out they're both right, in that it said what Gleick asserted when I recorded my video loop of the page on Dec. 19 and now says what Armstrong quoted.
In 1990, Justice Thurgood Marshall asserted: "When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital punishment would be administered with fairness and justice.
