"perpetrated upon" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a negative or harmful action that has been carried out against someone or something. It implies that the action was carried out deliberately or intentionally by someone. Example: The brutal crime was perpetrated upon innocent civilians by a group of terrorists.
The company has also previously denounced "threats and attacks" perpetrated upon its employees.
The company has previously denounced "threats and attacks" perpetrated upon its employees.
The movie's structure and style was itself an act of violence perpetrated upon the audience for its pleasure.
The Holocaust, she insisted, was "a crime against humanity, perpetrated upon the body of the Jewish people".
That such an atrocity could be perpetrated upon innocent revellers, many of whom were celebrating New Year's Eve, underscores the savagery of the attackers".
A key element in virtually every mimetic situation is deception by the mimic, perpetrated upon a third party, which mistakes the mimic for the model.
I know that, given time, I could probably imaginatively recreate many of the variations of horrific cruelty that people perpetrate upon each other.
This is a huge fraud we perpetrate upon the American people.
Regular customers can't believe the misfortune their civic leaders are about to perpetrate upon their neighborhood clubhouse, lovingly owned and operated for 28 years by Sing Yam.
Despite Churchill's greatness in opposing passionately Hitler's anti-Semitism and Hitler's drive to place the whole world under a new Holy German Empire or "Third Reich," Churchill failed to recognize the evils which his own nation's aristocracy, the British aristocracy, were perpetrating upon their colonial subjects.
I have a tangential research interest in maltreatment perpetrated by caregivers upon dependent elders.
