The phrase "placed sanctions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the imposition of punishments or restrictions upon someone or something. For example: The government placed sanctions on the country in response to its involvement in human rights violations.
In 2009, the U.N. placed sanctions on Eritrea, for allegedly supporting al-Shabaab in order to undermine Ethiopia.
However, the agreement was placed on hold in 2014 when the United States placed sanctions on Russia following the latter's annexation of Crimea.
The United Nations has placed sanctions on Iran for a nuclear program that the United States and other nations say is working to develop a nuclear bomb.
The report, by the agency's director general, Yukiya Amano, was one of his quarterly briefings to its board and the United Nations Security Council, which has placed sanctions on Iran four times for its refusal to halt its uranium enrichment.
In August 2011, it placed sanctions on General Jamea, freezing his assets and denying him a visa for travel in the European Union, for his role in "repression and violence against the civilian population".
[C8.] Sudanese Venture Faces Sanctions The U.S. has placed sanctions on a multinational oil venture in Sudan, a project that critics say has helped the government there finance a religious war against southern rebels.
Because of that, they had been unwilling to place sanctions against him, at least until yesterday.
Also in the region, the Security Council in December reinforced its previous decision to place sanctions on Liberia.
With Americans placing sanctions on certain corrupt Russian bureaucrats, he wrote, Moscow strikes back by punishing its own orphans.
Other economists questioned the wisdom of placing sanctions on China, an important trade partner and the United States' largest government lender.
The United States has led an international effort to place sanctions on Iran for its unwillingness to cooperate with international inspections of its uranium enrichment program.
