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, plural poleis, literally means city in Greek. It can also mean a body of citizens. In modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient Greek city-states, like Classical Athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as city-state. These cities consisted of a fortified city centre built on an acropolis or harbor and controlled surrounding territories of land. The Ancient Greek city-state developed during the Archaic period as the ancestor of city, state,