"upon the commencement" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to the beginning or start of something. Example: "Upon the commencement of the meeting, the chairperson called for order and began the discussion."
A. Felix Nihamin, a Manhattan real estate lawyer, said that under the Rent Stabilization Law, a husband or wife becomes entitled to succession rights to a spouse's apartment upon the commencement of the marriage.
The provisions of this section shall be effective, subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), only during the 3-year period beginning upon the commencement of the first fiscal year for which amounts are provided pursuant to paragraph (2)(A).
Upon the commencement of the Second World War, Hargest attempted to join the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force being raised for service.
The video begins a short prologue sequence with several children dressed in animal costumes playing in an overcast field, before cutting to Garbage upon the commencement of the song.
As you can see by the portions that I've bolded, the individual engaged in employment negotiations has three choices of when to inform the Ethics Committee: upon the commencement of negotiations, upon accepting the new job, or upon receiving compensation from the new job.
He chose Democrat David Meriwether, who served those two months, then, with respect to the original commission issued by the legislature (or by simply not returning to the Senate upon the commencement of the next session), effectively relinquished the seat to Dixon.
I am not willing to declare that a sovereign State cannot subject the land within its limits to the payment of debts due to its citizens, or that the power to do so depends upon the fact whether its statute shall authorize the property to be levied upon at the commencement of the suit or at its termination.
Even his doctor, the surgeon Anthony Carlisle, was fond of expressing a widely held belief: "The age of Sixty may, in general, be fixed upon as the commencement of Senility".
On April 27, 2017, CEINT affiliates from across the partner institutions descended upon Duke University for the commencement of the Annual Internal Meeting.
The class of 2009 — God and Geithner help them — is graduating into an unusually brutal economy, which means that the commencement speakers called upon to wish these students well confront an unusually difficult challenge.
Gen. W.T. Sherman from the passage of Peachtree Creek, July 19th 1864 to the commencement of the movement upon the enemy's lines of communication south of Atlan.
