Examples of harm in a Sentence. 1  They threatened him with bodily harm. 2  The scandal has done irreparable harm to his reputation. 3  She'll do anything to protect her children from harm. 4  They have suffered serious physical harm. 5  These new regulations could cause lasting harm to small businesses.
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word POLI. Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Poli. Poli is a town and comune in Lazio, central Italy. It is located in the Monti Prenestini area. It is also the birthplace of Pope Innocent XIII and Cardinal Agostino Vallini.
Polis is the Greek word for a city-state, that is a tract of  farmland on which was built a city and its protective fortress  (acro-polis = high city, that is the fortress o â¦ n a hill, around  which the city came to be built). It was independent-self ruled -  which is why the term city-state is used.Answered.onfidence votes 23. A polis is a Greek city-state. Instead of having a united country, the Greeks were divided into large, independent cities with their own governments and people. Some of the more famous poleis are Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Thebes, and Argos. Poleis were originally ruled by heredity kings.