The phrase "dared to assert" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when someone is expressing a bold or courageous statement or claim, often in the face of opposition or doubt.
Example: "Despite the criticism, she dared to assert her beliefs during the debate."
Alternatives: "had the audacity to claim" or "boldly stated".
The Church, he notes, considers priests who seek dispensation to leave and marry particularly threatening because they have dared to assert their sexuality in a clergy that is, officially, asexual.
After his conviction, he filed a motion last month seeking a new trial, saying the government's true purpose in prosecuting him was to shut down the site because "he dared to assert his First Amendment right" to post the information.
He was one of the country's few intellectuals who dared to assert their professional independence during the regime, and he gained popularity even though censors imposed a decade-long publishing ban against him in 1966, with Bulgarians clandestinely copying and reading his poems.
Bottum wrote that its "errors of fact combine to create a set of historical theses about the Nazis and the Catholic Church so tendentious that not even Pius XII's most determined belittlers have dared to assert them.
Karam's ambivalent, sly, subversive brand of laughter, however, dares to assert that that is not how the world works.
It even dares to assert that "the outcomes of engagement may be as crucial as the scientific outcomes to decisions about whether to release a gene-drive modified organism into the environment".
Finzi is an inconsistent composer, not all of whose music quite works from first note to last, but this, I dare to assert, is a joy and a treasure.
There are few factors that could make him undesirable: few would dare to assert that they do not like Bowie or that they cannot find a point of connection with his work," concluded Waizel.
I believe men need a new sexual ethos, a principle that dares to assert that less is more.
Chris Kyle asserts here that Mark died because he dared to doubt the nobility of what the United States was doing in Iraq.
After the success of "The Sixth Sense," he criticized Disney executives, dared to compare his talent to Steven Spielberg's and Alfred Hitchcock's and has steadfastly asserted his reputation as an outsider by refusing to move from Philadelphia to Hollywood.
