The word 'reasserting' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to talk about someone or something that is re-establishing or reinforcing a position or belief. Example sentence: After being criticized for his views, the politician began reasserting his original stance.
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century provided some intellectual underpinning, with its thesis that a rawer, 19th-century version of capitalism was reasserting itself.
In parallel came other small signs of the old polemicist reasserting himself over "Mike the polite" – such as tweeted slights on the Observer's political editor, Toby Helm, which came from a seemingly official @ToryEducation account.
Phillip Inman is the Guardian's economics correspondent It was good to see David Cameron reasserting his desire to put a sense of moral mission at the core of his Conservative vision.
Mr Putin had strongly backed Mr Yanukovich in the hope of reasserting his grip on Russia's "near abroad".
That is why Mr Koizumi's election 18 months ago, and the recent signs that he was reasserting himself, inspired such widespread hope.For, despite the size of the problem, and the failure of isolated policies to reverse it, there is every reason to believe that a concerted effort involving co-ordinated policies could turn things around for Japan.
Perhaps, says Mr al-Hout, some such reason may be behind the "advice" given recently by Damascus to the PLO opposition groups to abandon the "armed struggle" and become instead political parties.But what does Mr Arafat hope to gain from reasserting his authority in the camps?
For some time, investors were hopeful, and the stockmarket rebounded.In the second half of last year, however, it became clear that corporate reforms were getting bogged down in politics, and that the old dynastic business culture was reasserting itself with a vengeance.
The free lunch was back.Now reality is reasserting itself once more, with familiar results.
In the aftermath of such a rout, some Labour supporters fear, the party may disintegrate, with a revived Old Labour faction, wedded to the ideals of punitive taxation and a monolithic state, reasserting its anachronistic grip.Mr Brown, in the libraryBut if the demise is plain enough, the explanation is less so.
The same dynamic that drove the oil price skyward in 2008 is steadily reasserting itself.
Fifteen years after its first manifestation as a global, unifying network, it has entered its second phase: it appears to be balkanising, torn apart by three separate, but related forces.First, governments are increasingly reasserting their sovereignty.
