The phrase "act of raising" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the process or action of lifting or elevating something, whether physically or metaphorically.
Example: "The act of raising awareness about climate change is crucial for encouraging public action."
Alternatives: "process of lifting" or "action of elevating".
The very act of raising the money shaped and informed Tokaido Road.
With the forthcoming iPad 3, Apple will once again have to undertake a delicate balancing act of raising performance while reducing power consumption.
The act of raising your voice and presenting emotion on this scale requires you to open yourself up in ways that are initially uncomfortable and easy to misunderstand.
We should recognize the act of raising billions to incite nationalistic fervor over semiprofessional and professional athletes in the name of global peace for the sham it is and halt the practice.
And we get the similes: a sky is like "a lung in a tub of blue paint"; the act of raising one's arms on a muggy night feels like "anally and vaginally penetrating some atmospheric hallucination or extraterrestrial creature".
Still, the picture -- The Photograph, as Mr. Bradley aptly calls it -- became an icon of American patriotism, and the act of raising it was surrounded by a fabricated epic of battlefield heroics.
"We told them that both sides should cooperate, based on mutual respect, and end any acts of raising tensions on the Korean Peninsula," Mr. Chun said.
Kelly Clark, president-elect of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, told HuffPost that she wishes the bill included the Senate's TREAT Act provision of raising the cap to 500 patients.
Building a healthy brain, it seems, is an act of barn raising.
Rum distilling was one of the leading industries in New England, and the act had the effect of raising the price of molasses there.
Because judges tend to have a strong sense of the relative seriousness of offences, and sentence according to this framework, the act had the effect of raising penalties all round.
