The phrase "a sanction of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to an official approval or permission, often in legal or formal settings.
Example: "The committee issued a sanction of the proposed changes to the policy."
Alternatives: "an approval of" or "a ratification of".
"The disciplinary committee therefore imposed a sanction of a three-week playing suspension.
Then, Uefa deferred a sanction of ordering Russia to play three home Euro 2016 qualifying games in empty stadiums.
Following the game in Slovenia, Uefa suspended a sanction of playing a Europa League tie behind closed doors for a probationary period of two years.
But even if the allegation were correct, the lawyers said, "a sanction of disbarment would be excessively harsh, impermissibly punitive and unprecedented in the circumstances of this case".
In court papers, departmental lawyers argue that a sanction of docking benefits did not equate to forcing the unemployed to work.
Shortly before his death in 1564, Ferdinand obtained from Pope Pius IV a sanction of the Utraquist practice of Communion in both kinds, but the pope insisted on so many restrictions that his bull satisfied only the Utraquist extreme right.
Specifically, we estimate the effect of a sanction on those individuals who are not sanctioned by an agency with a cautious sanction policy, but who would be sanctioned if the agency decided to impose sanctions more frequently.
"I won't talk of war, but of a sanction for a monstrous violation of the human person," he said.
The small evidence available regarding the effect of monitoring and sanctioning suggests that youth respond positively to a sanction (threat of sanctioning) in terms of employment outcomes in the short-run, but they may also leave the labor force.
But if we reject the sanction theory of duty, why accept a sanction theory of rights?
This is a sanction theory of rights, akin to Mill's sanction theory of duty.
