The phrase "as it initiates" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the beginning or commencement of an action or process.
Example: "The experiment was successful, as it initiates a new phase of research in the field."
Alternatives: "as it begins" or "as it commences".
Such moves have triggered concerns that the military is seeking to strengthen its hold on the country as it initiates political reform.
The paper presents a new concept of metallic materials containing inhibitor, able to inhibit corrosion as it initiates.
The presence of excess fluoride in drinking water has become a potential cause of agony to hundreds of million people the world over as it initiates the debilitating disease fluorosis.
In architecture the small (four-and-a-half mat) Zen teahouse is a paradigm of iki, especially insofar as it initiates an interplay between wood and bamboo.
But China is courting major power war through new military technologies that alter the status quo, at the same time as it initiates zero-sum territorial conflicts with multiple U.S. allies, including Japan in the East China Sea, the Philippines in the South China Sea, Taiwan (for its sovereignty), India in the Himalayas, and South Korea through China's proxy North Korea.
With arterial thrombosis, blood vessel wall damage is required, as it initiates coagulation, but clotting in the veins mostly occurs without any such damage.
As one example of the more aggressive policy "the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade…announced in 2007 that it was assessing its interests in protecting intellectual property as it initiated trade agreements in Peru, Colombia and the Dominican Republic" [ 17].
The strike was successful as it initiated a process of substantial salary increases for all health workers in Tanzania.
The Gradual Civilization Act of 1857 was one of the most damaging pieces of legislation as it initiated the church-state partnership that established the Indian Residential School System.
Just as importantly, it initiated a tradition of common technical work in fields as diverse as philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, economics and computer science.
Your body perceives this plaque as foreign, so it initiates an inflammatory response to contain the damage.
