Latest official figures show that 918,000 claimants were sanctioned between April 2013 and March 2014 for apparently breaching benefits rules.
The tour praised Norman for having his Australian event, the Greg Norman Holden International, co-sanctioned between the Australian and European tours.
Still, Union Pacific's record of seven court sanctions between July 2001 and January 2003 for destroying or failing to preserve evidence -- the legal term is spoliation -- stands out.
According to the DWP, there were 553,000 sanctions between November 2012 (the first full month of the new regime) and June 2013, compared with 499,000 from November 2011 to June 2012.
Koulaeva said evidence suggested international intervention had already proved effective: while the EU was negotiating lifting sanctions between 2013 and 2015, executions almost stopped.
According to the government's figures, 860,000 benefit claimants were sanctioned between June 2012 and June 2013, a jump of 360,000 from a year earlier.
The allegations centred on $190bn in transactions that BNP's trade-finance arm in Switzerland processed for countries under US sanctions between 2004 and 2012.
It has produced, via the murder of 298 people on MH17, the first significant use of economic sanctions between developed countries since the era of globalisation began.
UN sanctions between 1990 and 2003 amounted to an economic siege, unprecedented in its severity outside military conflict, that destroyed the Iraqi economy and reduced millions to poverty.
Mario Draghi, the ECB's president, said last week the region's recovery remained "weak, fragile and uneven", and warned sanctions and counter-sanctions between the west and Russia were among the biggest risks facing the eurozone economy.
