assertion

Preposition: of

• independence: America's assertions of independence from the rest of the world force the rest of the world to assert its independence from America.
• identity: These can be seen as a positive example of assertion of ethnic identity.

Possessives

• complainant: We noted the complainant's assertion that he had made his initial inquiry two days after the ad appeared.

Converse of object

• refute: This Association totally refutes the assertion of HAS that teachers are failing to deliver their part of the McCrone Agreement.
• contradict: There is nothing in Paul's writings that really contradicts the assertion.
• justify: Cantor held that these transfinite numbers had an actual existence, drawing on his early religious training to justify the assertion.
• repeat: Like an old record stuck in its groove, he repeated the assertion that Iraq had fully complied with the UN's demands.
• reject: I'll leave you and your local team to confirm or reject that assertion.
• undermine: Narrative pattern ( Clara's one-way epistolary structure ) of interpretative assertion undermined by lack of meaning.

Adjective modifier

• unsupported: Any unsupported assertions that trading was profitable should not be relied upon.
• unsubstantiated: Canada will not condone false statements and unsubstantiated assertions which incite hatred against an identifiable group.
• bald: From the bald assertion of her husband's guilt, Lois Jenkins makes a sudden leap to unexplained hints.
• bold: Checking this bold assertion is the point of my talk.
• unfounded: It is hard to know how any honest man can present such a mishmash of unfounded assertion as evidence.

Noun used with modifier

• lookbehind: Similar to positive lookbehind assertions, the contained pattern must only match strings of some fixed length.
• look-ahead: When using look-ahead assertions and negations, this can all get even trickier.
• unproven: They cannot be deported to face torture on the basis of unproven assertions.
• authentication: The artifact is then dereferenced by the SP to retrieve the much larger authentication assertion.