"assert" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

assert verbo

assert + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 26
assert control • assert one's right • assert one's authority • assert one's Sovereignty • assert one's independence • assert one's claim • ...
verbo + assert
Kolokacji: 4
begin to assert • try to assert • continue to assert • begin asserting
assert + preposición
Kolokacji: 18
assert in • assert with • assert to • assert over • assert on • ...
assert + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 42
repeatedly asserted • further assert • later assert • confidently assert • publicly assert • ...
(3) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(4) quickly, gradually
Kolokacji: 2
(6) correctly, wrongly, rightly
Kolokacji: 3
1. correctly assert = poprawnie twierdź correctly assert
2. wrongly assert = źle twierdź wrongly assert
  • The agency also wrongly asserted that a training video given to firefighters had instructed them in the potentially disorienting features of digital technology, the report said.
  • We do not support the Roybal legislation, as you wrongly assert, because we think it is too costly.
  • Judge Bork wrongly asserts that Presidential consultation with the Senate on judicial nominations violates the constitutional separation of powers.
  • It has been widely but wrongly asserted, for example, that the Act rendered invalid any marriage involving minors, i.e. those under 21, unless parental consent had been given.
  • But Mr. Barr asserted wrongly that his Justice Department was handling the case credibly.
  • It accuses them of promoting biased research, wrongly asserting that nicotine was not addictive and aiming their products at children.
  • City Hall wrongly asserted this week that there was no teacher shortage.
  • He wrongly asserts, for example, that Kerry branded him (and every other Vietnam veteran) a war criminal.
  • Mr. Dugger wrongly asserts that a "hacker" is a threat, because the voting machines cannot be connected to a central computer or network.
  • Incidentally, he also asserts wrongly that Richard Nixon's "Christmas bombing" of Hanoi in 1972 made peace possible.
3. rightly assert = słusznie twierdź rightly assert
(7) quietly, loudly
Kolokacji: 2

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