The phrase "addressing the floor" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in contexts such as meetings or speeches when someone is speaking to an audience or group present in the room.
Example: "The speaker began addressing the floor, capturing everyone's attention with her compelling story."
Alternatives: "speaking to the audience" or "addressing the assembly".
There was controversy earlier this year as to whether this is Bernie Sanders addressing the floor or another student leader, Bruce Rappaport.
The coolly alert Koji Mizuta lowered Ms. Farmer into a diagonal line, her face and chest addressing the floor for a long while.
There are ensembles in which three things are going on among the performers, but a dominant image is the way most of them are bent over, their heads and torsos addressing the floor while their feet pound out rhythms.
One of Hillary's concessions was a biographical film that will run, NBC Olympics montage style, before she addresses the floor tomorrow night.
In 2004 club colours were largely replaced by shirts and suits, the chancellor Gordon Brown sent a video message pledging £6m and the Football League chairman Sir Brian - now Lord - Mawhinney addressed the floor, as did the Professional Footballers Associationn.
First, at the beginning of the campaign last fall to address the floor mat problem, Canadian officials were puzzled by and concerned about Toyota's apparent attempt to play down the problem on its Web site in Canada, in sharp contrast to the company's approach in the United States.
Learn more about how to Make Your Words Count as well as tools and techniques for addressing the Sticky Floors at SHAMBAUGH's "It's Not a Glass Ceiling, It's a Sticky Floor" Forum in San Francisco on October 5th or Women In Professional Services (WPS) Program in Washington D.C. this Fall!
The figure includes the four victims of the August 2009 crash near San Diego; relatives of the family sued Toyota on March 2. Three of the seven vehicles involved in the fatal crashes were covered by Toyota's November recall addressing the potential for floor mats to trap the accelerator pedals.
On Jan . 30 for instance, the two issued a joint release announcing that they would address the Senate floor, opposing the nomination to the Supreme Court of Samuel A. Alito Jr.
Kirsten Gillibrand addressed the Senate floor urging her colleagues to support the amendment to the measure she proposed this past Tuesday.
In this study we attempt to address the perceived floor effects and lack of sensitivity of the pain dimension of the EQ-5D by replacing its three point scale with the eleven point NPRS.
