The phrase "address sentences" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of discussing or responding to specific sentences in a text or conversation.
Example: "In our meeting, we need to address sentences that may cause confusion among the team."
Alternatives: "respond to statements" or "discuss phrases".
We need urgently to address sentencing, because too many offenders are being sent to prison for short terms.
Yet it fails to address sentencing changes that should be made, which would significantly reduce the problem of overincarceration in federal prisons.
Real reform demands the courage to address sentencing, as former home and justice secretary Ken Clarke pointed out, and redirect resources to credible community alternatives, found to have significantly lower reoffending rates than short sentences in the government's own research.
"We urge the government to address sentencing policy in a more considered and systematic way and to reconsider the merits of this trend," the cross-party committee of MPs said.
A few reference grammars address sentence spacing, as increased spacing between words is punctuation in itself.
The German language manual Empfehlungen des Rats für Deutsche Rechtschreibung ("Recommendations of the Council for German Orthography") (2006) does not address sentence spacing.
"My frustration was that the governor just didn't want to address sentencing reform or implement the kind of policies that made sense," said Jeanne Woodford, who briefly served as Schwarzenegger's corrections secretary in 2006 before abruptly resigning.
The most important style guide in Italy, Il Nuovo Manuale di Stile (2009), does not address sentence spacing, but the Guida di Stile Italiano (2010), the official guide for Microsoft translation, tells users to use single sentence spacing "instead of the double spacing used in the United States".
The new piece, "Last Words," right, is a series of six large posterlike sheets of paper with a stream of printed text made up of hundreds of short, direct-address sentences: "Tell Mom I love her.
"Obama and [Attorney General] Holder both for many years and certainly during the campaign specifically addressed sentences and disparity in sentencing, so there was an expectation that he would bring hope and change," says P.S. Ruckman, a political scientist at Rock Valley College in Illinois who studies pardons.
