"founding moment" is an appropriate and usable phrase in written English.
You use it typically to refer to a significant event, such as the founding of a institution or the founding of a nation, that was the starting point for something. For example, you might say "The founding of the United States in 1776 has come to be known as a founding moment in the history of democracy."
Alison LaCroix, "The Interbellum Constitution: Federalism in the Long Founding Moment" (University of Chicago Public Law & Legal Theory Working Paper No. 420, 2013) available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2228335.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm
This included footage of Base jumping's founding moment in the summer of 1978, when Boenish and his peers decided to jump off El Capitan, the 3,600ft-high 3,600ft-highe cliff at the heart of California'sheeremite National Park.
A lot. Like the founding of the United States could only be done once, the founding moment of what will become the future of work will have big and lasting effects.
Like the founding of the United States could only be done once, the founding moment of what will become the future of work will have big and lasting effects.
Schoolchildren are taught that it is the republic's founding moment.
How does Graziano's assessment of the founding moment in Italian history hold up?
All of this exposes the somewhat awkward fact that the Revolutionary era produced two different and logically contradictory "founding moments".
It brings recent feminist theory to bear upon the discussion of medieval texts, and contributes significantly to current feminist criticism by offering historically specific accounts of some of the founding moments of western conceptions of love, desire, and sexuality.
This is evidenced in the growing number of whites who voice their concerns that the pact brokered in the founding moments of South Africa's democracy has been called off.
One American abolitionist, writing in 1857 — Jamestown's two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary — implied that we ought to ignore 1607 and instead pay attention to the divided nation's twin founding moments: the Pilgrims' 1620 landing in Plymouth and the arrival of the first Africans in Jamestown, in 1619.
Franklin was also ubiquitous, the only person present at all three founding moments of American independence: the drafting of the Declaration of Independence; the negotiations that produced the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War; and the great debate that resulted in the Constitution.
