assert

IPA: ʌsˈɝt

To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.
(reflexive) To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive.
(programming) To declare that a condition or expression must be true at a certain point in the source code (in some cases causing the program to fail if it is not, as a safeguard).
(electronics) To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.

Examples of "assert" in Sentences

Admitting the comparision that you assert is "unrelibale."
Your background which you assert is in the law, then in catering, seems rather interesting.
What you assert is not a “fact” anymore than the election of “President-elect Huckabee” in 2008 was a “fact”.
Would you ban them ? would you ban dangerous sport , would you , in short , assert , that the state owns your life.
Experience, we all assert, is a good thing, a necessary thing, the difference between a qualified practitioner and a tyro.
The same goes for whenever Dick Fuld has reemerged to again assert it was the government's fault, not his, that Lehman Brothers failed.
What happens with liberals, I assert, is that they then, in many cases, filter what they have learned through emotion through reason to come up with a response.
Global warming is, after all, global, so if what you assert is true, there ought to occasionally be a trip over, for example, the trans-Siberian railway from Vladivostok to Moscow.
But eventually, he suggested, television would incorporate those same enhancements into its own equipment, and television would once again assert its advantage of convenience within the home.